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25 May 2017
Published by: Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B
The recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa highlights how engaging with the sociocultural dimensions of epidemics is critical to mounting...
25 May 2017
This paper argues for an integrative modelling approach for understanding zoonoses disease dynamics, combining process, pattern and...
25 May 2017
By September 2014, it was clear that conventional approaches to containing the spread of Ebola in West Africa were failing. Public...
25 May 2017
It has become routine to attribute the tragedy of the West African Ebola epidemic to inexperience and lack of knowledge. The states and...
9 November 2016
Published by: Taylor and Francis
Sierra Leone and Guinea share broadly similar cultural worlds, straddling the societies of the Upper Guinea Coast with Islamic West Africa. There was, however, a notable difference in their reactions to the Ebola epidemic. As the epidemic spread in Guinea, acts of violent or everyday resistance to outbreak control measures repeatedly followed, undermining public health attempts to contain the crisis.
7 October 2016
Published by: BioMed Central
The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistant pathogens poses a big challenge to policy-makers, who need to oversee the transformation of health systems that evolved to provide easy access to these drugs into ones that encourage appropriate use of antimicrobials, whilst reducing the risk of resistance.
7 October 2016
The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistant pathogens poses a big challenge to policy-makers, who need to oversee the transformation of health systems that evolved to provide easy access to these drugs into ones that encourage appropriate use of antimicrobials, whilst reducing the risk of resistance.
23 May 2016
Published by: Taylor & Francis Online
Global risks of zoonotic disease are high on policy agendas. Increasingly, Africa is seen as a ‘hotspot’, with likely disease spillovers from animals to humans. This paper explores the social dynamics of disease exposure, demonstrating how risks are not generalised, but are related to occupation, gender, class and other dimensions of social difference.
1 January 2016
Published by: Routledge
Zoonotic diseases – pathogens transmitted from animals to people – offer particularly challenging problems for global health institutions and actors, given the complex social-ecological dynamics at play.
24 April 2015
Published by: STEPS Centre
There is growing international concern about the threat to public health of the emergence and spread of bacteria resistant to existing antibiotics. An effective response must invest in both the development of new drugs and measures to slow the emergence of resistance. This paper addresses the former.