A5002431620- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Global Security and Public Health
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Disaster Response and Management
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Vibrio bacteria research studies
- earthquake and tectonic studies
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- High-pressure geophysics and materials
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Healthcare Policy and Management
Institute of Development Studies
2014-2025
University of Sussex
2016-2023
Institute of Development Studies
2014-2021
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
2013
Centre for Sexual Health and HIV AIDS Research
2010
University College London
2010
British Geological Survey
1990
University of Maine
1959
Maine Medical Center
1959
COVID-19 is proving to be the long awaited 'big one': a pandemic capable of bringing societies and economies their knees. There an urgent need examine how - as health development crisis unfolded way it did consider possibilities for post-pandemic transformations rethinking more broadly. Drawing on over decade research epidemics, we argue that origins, unfolding effects require analysis addresses both structural political-economic conditions alongside far less ordered, 'unruly' processes...
This paper highlights the major challenges and considerations for addressing COVID-19 in informal settlements. It discusses what is known about vulnerabilities how to support local protective action. There heightened concern urban settlements because of combination population density inadequate access water sanitation, which makes standard advice social distancing washing hands implausible. are further do with lack reliable data social, political economic contexts each setting that will...
Journal Article Briefing: Ebola–myths, realities, and structural violence Get access Annie Wilkinson, Wilkinson (a.wilkinson@ids.ac.uk) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Melissa Leach African Affairs, Volume 114, Issue 454, January 2015, Pages 136–148, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adu080 Published: 04 December 2014
Sierra Leone and Guinea share broadly similar cultural worlds, straddling the societies of Upper Coast with Islamic West Africa. There was, however, a notable difference in their reactions to Ebola epidemic. As epidemic spread Guinea, acts violent or everyday resistance outbreak control measures repeatedly followed, undermining public health attempts contain crisis. In Leone, defiant was rarer. Instead looking 'culture' explain patterns social (as common media discourse responding...
To determine patient and treatment characteristics associated with vitamin D deficiency (VDD) in an UK inner city HIV-1-positive adult cohort.Two hundred twenty-seven HIV-positive patients attending prospectively for routine blood tests winter had serum 25-hydroxyvitamin parathyroid hormone (PTH) concentrations other chemistry measured. Those without VDD were defined as having <50 nmol/L >75 nmol/L, respectively. Characteristics compared between VDD. The effects of VDD, tenofovir use, their...
This paper argues for a rethinking of disease preparedness that puts incertitude and the politics knowledge at centre. Through examining experiences Ebola, Nipah, cholera COVID-19 across multiple settings, limitations current approaches are highlighted. Conventional assume controllable, predictable future, which is responded to by range standard interventions. Such emergency planning risk – where future outcomes can be predicted fail address uncertainty, ambiguity ignorance or their...
The Reguibat Shield of north Mauritania comprises a western Archaean terrane dominated by gneisses and granitic rocks an eastern Eburnean largely made up Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks. These were juxtaposed during the c . 2.1–2.0 Ga Orogeny, which formed approximately north-trending front contiguous with belt Leo in equatorial West Africa. Geological surveying Sfariat region has shown that metamorphosed continental margin succession been intruded intercalated synorogenic granitoids...
This paper argues that addressing the underlying structural drivers of disease vulnerability is essential for a ‘One Health’ approach to tackling zoonotic diseases in Africa. Through three case studies—trypanosomiasis Zimbabwe, Ebola and Lassa fever Sierra Leone Rift Valley Kenya—we show how political interests, commercial investments conflict securitization all generate patterns vulnerability, reshaping ecology landscapes, influencing traditional coping mechanisms affecting health service...
Global risks of zoonotic disease are high on policy agendas. Increasingly, Africa is seen as a 'hotspot', with likely spillovers from animals to humans. This paper explores the social dynamics exposure, demonstrating how not generalised, but related occupation, gender, class and other dimensions difference. Through case studies Lassa Fever in Sierra Leone, Henipah virus Ghana, Rift Valley Kenya Trypanosomiasis Zimbabwe, proposes difference space–time framework assist understanding response...
This article explores the implications for human health of local interactions between disease, ecosystems and livelihoods. Five interdisciplinary case studies addressed zoonotic diseases in African settings: Rift Valley fever (RVF) Kenya, trypanosomiasis Zambia Zimbabwe, Lassa Sierra Leone henipaviruses Ghana. Each explored how ecological changes human–ecosystem affect pathogen dynamics hence likelihood spillover transmission, socially differentiated peoples’ with animals their exposure to...
This article shares findings on COVID-19 in Africa across 2020 to examine concepts and practices of epidemic preparedness response. Amidst uncertainties about the trajectory COVID-19, stages emergency response emerge practice as interconnected. We illustrate how complex dynamics manifest diverse actors interpret modify approaches according contexts experiences. suggest that concept "intersecting precarities" best captures temporalities at stake; these precarities include effects control...
The Theory of Change (ToC) is a management and evaluation tool supporting critical thinking in the design, implementation development programmes. We document experience Future Health Systems (FHS) Consortium research teams Bangladesh, India Uganda with using ToC. seek to understand how why ToCs were applied clarify they facilitate iterative intervention designs stakeholder engagement health systems strengthening. This paper combines literature on ToC, summary reflections by FHS members...
It has become routine to attribute the tragedy of West African Ebola epidemic inexperience and lack knowledge. The states citizens Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone were portrayed as entirely unfamiliar with therefore without relevant simplicity this narrative is disturbed by experience Lassa fever, an infectious deadly viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF), which endemic in three countries most affected Ebola. This article looks beyond 2014 history efforts control VHFs Mano River challenges idea that...
By September 2014, it was clear that conventional approaches to containing the spread of Ebola in West Africa were failing. Public health teams often met with fear, and efforts treat patients curtail population movement frequently backfired. Both governments international agencies recognized anthropological expertise essential if locally acceptable, community-based interventions interrupt transmission be designed. The Response Anthropology Platform established against this background....