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9 April 2020
This brief reports on attitudes and practices relating to physical distancing measures in Eastern and Southern Africa in the context of...
27 March 2020
This brief sets out key considerations for protecting informal urban settlements from the spread and impacts of Covid-19. There is...
23 March 2020
This brief sets out practical considerations relating to flows of information, misinformation and disinformation though online media,...
SSHAP (the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform) focuses on the social dimensions of emergency responses related to health,...
28 February 2020
This brief sets out practical considerations relating to the design and impact of measures that restrict human movement patterns in the...
With funding provided by the Wellcome Trust this project is intended to improve the accessibility of the British Library of Development...
13 March 2019
The University of Sussex has been awarded a Wellcome Trust grant of over £400,000 to improve the accessibility of the British Library...
The Epidemic Response Anthropology Platform (ERAP) is a resource to support a humane and effective response to epidemics. The aim of the platform is to promote evidence on the social dimensions of epidemics in different contexts and to improve the way this evidence is used in response planning.
Deadly diseases with pandemic potential are a global concern, but local people’s understandings of these diseases and their knowledge in preparing for them is often ignored. This research will explore ‘preparedness from below’ by highlighting the importance of local perspectives to disease response which have not been fully recognised and supported in global discourses so far.
In 2012 researchers from IDS and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), with funding from Rockefeller Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, organised a meeting to discuss issues around inequities in universal health coverage that particularly affect indigenous and minority peoples and identify effective strategies for addressing those inequities.
