Medical anthropologist | urban health and well-being | epidemic preparedness & response | political economy of health. Research Fellow at @IDS_UK @SSHAP_action
Joined September 2009
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2 Sep 2024
New article based on our recent research:
Infrastructures of epidemic response: #Mpox and everyday repair work in Nigeria
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19 Sep 2024
Special Briefing on Mpox Outbreak in Africa | Sept. 19, 2024 x.com/i/broadcasts/1zqKVYpnw…
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24 Aug 2024
New letter: “At the syndemic intersection of #mpox and HIV, where do migrants stand?” hubs.li/Q02MkvfV0
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23 Aug 2024
This is going to be an important test of our global health security system(s). I hope we actually use learning from COVID, esp around vax and therapeutics equity and the use of social science in response.
23 Aug 2024
This week’s cover: a Lancet Editorial on #mpox, once again a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) demanding a coordinated international response.
Editorial ▶️ hubs.li/Q02Mlj6R0
Full issue ▶️ hubs.li/Q02Mljq70
ALT Cover of The Lancet, Aug 24 issue. The quote: The increasing and altered character of mpox cases are not just a problem in the countries where they arise... They are a global threat to health that demands the attention and coordinated response of leaders everywhere."
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20 Aug 2024
A new mpox emergency declared but the politics of global inequities persist ids.ac.uk/?p=101667 via @IDS_UK
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20 Aug 2024
A new #mpox emergency has been declared but the politics of global inequities persist.
A 🧵 of the analysis from IDS researcher Hayley MacGregor as part of @SSHAP_action.
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ALT #Mpox in large letters on a blue background. World Health Organization is written alongside the circular logo at the bottom.
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21 Jun 2024
What's politics got to do with it? In our @bmj_latest analysis piece we argue that viewing vaccines as inherently political can help to build trust in an age of misinformation
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💡NEW BRIEF
💊Which contextual factors shape #health emergencies in the #WestAfrica region? How should these inform priorities for responding to health crises?
Read the brief 👇socialscienceinaction.org/re…
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19 Jul 2024
IDS researchers are among those receiving new funding grants under two UK initiatives to foster innovative and international social science collaborations. 🌎
Including @grassandgreens @IanScoones @CarolineKhene @MSchmidtSane
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ALT Two people walking through flood water in front of a row of basic shops with corrugated metal roofs.
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31 May 2024
I really enjoyed Moore-Sheeley's meticulously researched book on #ITNs (& what led to their scale up). As we all know, ITNs are ubiquitous in SSA, and yet rarely are critically examined. How did we get here, and what does this tell us about the state of #globalhealth? Read more:
31 May 2024
In her new review for #HAReads, @MSchmidtSane of @IDS_UK reviews "What Insecticide-Treated Mosquito Nets Can Tell Us About The State Of Global Health" by Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, which discusses how these nets are a lens to understand wider issues of power. bit.ly/452tVh8
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13 May 2024
Who Could Catch Bird Flu First? These Experts Have an Idea, and a Way to Help. nytimes.com/2024/05/01/opini…
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10 May 2024
For other Columbia alumni, here's a letter of support for student protesters: wearecolumbia.org
#StudentProtests #ColumbiaUniversity
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6 May 2024
Please consider supporting our incredible partners @Wanavijiji_sdi wa Wanavijiji who are supporting the tens of thousands of households living in informal settlements that have been badly affected by severe flooding across the city.
justgiving.com/crowdfunding/…
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📽️ We've got a new short video documentary about community-involved TB support in #India, created with our partner @SPARCIndia2.
Watch it now: ariseconsortium.org/learn-mo… #tuberculosis
Huge thanks to film maker @mihirpatilhande and our colleague @raovinodtweets for all their work!
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5 Mar 2024
The ‘Bill Gates problem’: do billionaire philanthropists skew global health research? (answer: yes) by Andy Stirling nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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23 Jan 2024
I'm humbled to be nominated in @TheAfricaReport's top 10 & especially to be sharing a platform with scholars I highly respect! Than you!!
@kafmurhula @SimuChigudu @huma_africa @UCT_news @UCT_Research @ASAA_Africa
23 Jan 2024
From Accra to Tokyo, Harare to Washington, the continent’s pool of research experts, lecturers and other scholars have been making life-changing decisions that help change the world every day.
@Sheriffb features 10 African scholars to watch this year. theafricareport.com/334013/1…
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23 Jan 2024
From Accra to Tokyo, Harare to Washington, the continent’s pool of research experts, lecturers and other scholars have been making life-changing decisions that help change the world every day.
@Sheriffb features 10 African scholars to watch this year. theafricareport.com/334013/1…
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18 Jan 2024
ROAPE is now fully open access, each journal article, review, briefing & debate for 50 years is available for everyone to read. ROAPE is also welcoming new submissions to our peer-reviewed journal. Here are instructions how to submit on our new platform.
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15 Jan 2024
Emergency rules have started in #Zambia to help combat the #Cholera outbreak.
@SSHAP_action, in partnership with IDS, have resources to support effective, community-centred & data-driven community engagement for cholera outbreak response 👇
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10 Jan 2024
Take a look at the new special issue on medical mistrust edited by @MSchmidtSane @THrynick @lizziestorer & Santi Ripoll. I have an article in the issue too: The centrality of (mis)trust in pandemic preparedness in Sub-Saharan Africa: a conceptual framework
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publ…
9 Jan 2024
New supplementary issue of the Journal of the British Academy, 'Exploring Medical Mistrust: From Clinic to Community' explores and unpacks the complex relationships intertwined with contemporary manifestations of mistrust in medicine:
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publ…
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