Social science intelligence in the global Ebola response

Abramowitz, Sharon; Bardosh, Kevin; Leach, Melissa; Hewlett, Barry S.; Nichter, Mark; Nguyen, Vinh Kim

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(15)60119-2

Cited by 49 publications

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“…In our experience, we found that the management of EVD outbreak and the care of affected people go beyond addressing their medical needs. Anthropological and psychosocial services were critical and beneficial in providing care to the affected individuals, communities and contacts [13][14][15].…”

Section: Lessons Learned and Implications For Future Epidemic Preparementioning

confidence: 99%

Nigeria’s Ebola Outbreak Response: Lessons for Future Epidemic Preparedness

Musa¹,

Nasidi²,

Shuaib³

2016

Arch Med

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Section: Lessons Learned and Implications For Future Epidemic Preparementioning

confidence: 99%

Nigeria’s Ebola Outbreak Response: Lessons for Future Epidemic Preparedness

Musa¹,

Nasidi²,

Shuaib³

2016

Arch Med

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“…The importance of community involvement and true participation and the need for profound involvement of social science approaches in disease control became painfully evident during the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa (Richardson et al, 2015). A number of studies describe how human behaviour drove transmission of Ebola virus and show how a multi-disciplinary, or biosocial, bottom-up, community-centred approach drawing on social science competence was fundamental in achieving control of the disease (Ravi and Gauldin, 2014;Roca et al, 2015;Abramowitz et al, 2015a;Abramowitz et al, 2015b).…”

Section: Development Of Pe and Social Science Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Where is the Participation in Participatory Epidemiology? How Engagement with Social Science could lead to Improved Understanding and Control of Peste des Petits Ruminants

Fischer¹,

Chenais²,

Torsson³

et al. 2016

BJV

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| Peste des Petits ruminants (PPR) is a potentially lethal, highly contagious viral disease of sheep and goats. Domestic sheep and goats are important species for the livelihoods of poor people in many developing countries. Within societies where PPR is now spreading, poverty is widespread and the disease is expected to have significant negative impacts on livelihoods. In resource-constrained marginalised societies, it is often difficult to collect disease data in conventional ways. Participatory epidemiology (PE) has been suggested as a particularly suitable research method to study epidemiology and social impacts of diseases in these contexts. However, for PE to achieve its full potential, stronger efforts to achieve true participation and to incorporate lessons about participation and power from the social sciences may be required. This review shows that social science engagement in PE to date is virtually non-existent, but that increased efforts to draw lessons from the social sciences and to increase the degree of participation in PE could increase its potential as an important tool in disease impact assessment and control. Particular attention is paid here to the potential role of PE in future research on the epidemiology and control of PPR. P este des Petits ruminants (PPR) is an economically important and highly contagious viral disease of sheep and goats. It is the fourth most important disease of small ruminants world-wide, based on losses of livestock units (World Bank, 2011). Domestic sheep and goats are important species for poor people in many developing countries, where farming and animal husbandry make a critical contribution to the livelihoods of a significant share of households. In particular, the poorest groups in such smallholder farming societies, who have limited possibilities to invest in larger and higher value animals, depend on sheep and goat rearing (Perry et al., 2002). Thus the spread of PPR could have a particularly negative impact on the poorest and, consequently, controlling PPR can be expected to bring increased livelihood security to many of the rural poor.In the kinds of societies where PPR is now spreading, it is often difficult both to collect data and to implement disease control strategies in conventional ways, due to lack of infrastructure and lack of established systems for, and local experience of, collecting reliable quantitative data. Participatory epidemiology (PE) has been suggested as a particularly suitable methodology for both implementing disease control practices

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“…. One hundred percent contact tracing and isolation of contacts; involvement of social scientists from the very beginning [9]. .…”

Section: The Ebolavirus Response In Nigeriamentioning

confidence: 99%