A5059807889- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Global Security and Public Health
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Cambodian History and Society
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Healthcare Systems and Practices
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Global Health and Surgery
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- South Asian Studies and Conflicts
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
- Political Conflict and Governance
- African Studies and Geopolitics
- Law in Society and Culture
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Medical and Biological Sciences
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Sex work and related issues
University of Exeter
2024
Queen Mary University of London
2024
London School of Economics and Political Science
2017-2023
Universidad de Londres
2023
University of Bath
2022
McGill University
2022
Ministry of Health
2021
Abstract Humanitarians have recently championed faith actors as valuable resources in delivering humanitarian aid. Partnerships are increasingly promoted through international declarations and bespoke toolkits. Such approaches abstracted from the historical contemporary contexts which is negotiated, become legitimate. This paper explores how has been entangled within dynamics of two spatially connected crises: Ugandans fleeing post‐Amin reprisals mid‐1980s, South Sudanese civil war 2013....
Achieving high rates of COVID-19 vaccination has become central to a return normalcy in post-pandemic world. Accordingly, exceptional measures, such as the regulation immunity through vaccine passports and restrictions that distinguished between vaccinated unvaccinated individuals, became feature campaigns certain G7 countries. Such policies stand tension with recent supranational European Union seek build inclusion trust engaging minoritised groups campaigns. To explore this tension, we...
In this article we explore Covid-19 riskscapes across the African Great Lakes region. Drawing on fieldwork Uganda and Malawi, our analysis centers around how two mobile, trans-border figures – truck drivers migrant traders came to be understood as shifting, yet central loci of perceived viral risk. We argue that political decision-making processes, with specific reference influence testing regimes reported disease metrics, aggravated antecedent geographies blame targeted at mobile "others"....
Abstract Background In many places, health workers at the sub-national level are on frontlines of disseminating information about coronavirus (COVID-19) to communities. To ensure communities receiving timely and accurate information, it is vital kept abreast most recent recommendations, guidance. Methods An electronic survey was implemented provide insights dissemination utilisation evidence related COVID-19 pandemic by engaged levels Ugandan system. The aim this individuals Results Mass...
Faith actors have become increasingly significant in the field of global mental health, through their inclusion delivery psychosocial support humanitarian settings. This remains empirically underexplored. We explore historical and contemporary activities local faith responding to disquiet northern Uganda. Given pre-existing roles, we question what it means when humanitarians draw on deliver health (MHPSS) conflict-affected argue for a recognition as agents operating within therapeutic...
Plastic pollution is now considered globally ubiquitous, irreversible, and a planetary boundary threat. Solutions are urgently needed but their development application hampered by the complexity scale of issue. System dynamics technique used to understand complex behaviours systems through model building useful for conceptualising relationships between various interacting, dynamic factors, identifying potential intervention points within system where specific policies or innovations might...
Discussions on African responses to Covid-19 have focused the state and its international backers. Far less is known about a wider range of public authorities, including chiefs, humanitarians, criminal gangs, armed groups. This paper investigates how pandemic provided opportunities for claims contests over power in Uganda, Democratic Republic Congo, South Sudan. Ethnographic research used contend that local forms authority can be akin miniature sovereigns, able interpret dictates, policies,...
This paper presents ethnographic evidence from three sites across the Uganda/South Sudan borderlands. At each location, procedures to identify alleged poisoners were documented. Novel voting processes initiated by hybrid local authorities. Addressing widespread anxiety about proximate wrong-doing seemed promote order locally. In this paper, we discuss similarities between locations and review what constitutes poison. Descriptions of indigenous electoral are then provided. We reveal contested...
Abstract Prior to COVID‐19, migrant journeys through the Mediterranean were often described with reference barriers posed within ‘fortress Europe’ or registers which centre migrant's adeptness at navigating draconian immigration regimes. Between these two contexts, this paper explores how a public authority lens can assist in understanding implications of COVID‐19 and associated vaccine bureaucracies. We draw on ethnographic research Italian‐French Alpine border chart ‘vaccine...
While scholars have noted the deeply unequal effects of pandemic containment, there has been limited attempt to map socio-political lives vaccination policies, particularly from perspective undocumented persons moving at state margins. This paper explores how migrants, who were predominantly male travellers attempting cross Italy's Alpine borders, encountered Covid-19 vaccines and contemporary legislation. Based on ethnographic observations qualitative interviews with doctors, activists...
African borderlands – such as those between South Sudan, Uganda and Congo are often presented by analysts places of agency economic opportunity, in contrast to hardened, securitized borders elsewhere. We emphasize, however, that even relatively porous international can nevertheless be the focus significant unease for borderland communities. Crossing enable safety fleeing conflict or trading prospects businesspeople, but it also engender anxieties around unchecked spread insecurity, disease...
This introduction to the special issue, Exploring Medical Mistrust: From Clinic Community, provides a conceptual framing of ‘medical mistrust’ from critical social science lens. issue explores and unpacks complex temporal, scalar relationships which are intertwined with contemporary manifestations mistrust in medicine. We ask what humanities disciplines can offer relation wider understandings processes driving resistance refusal medical interventions, including but also beyond vaccines....
Approaches to resilience in post-war contexts prioritise systems-based thinking above everyday realities. This paper explores reconstruction through marungi (khat) North-West Uganda. Presenting ethnographic evidence, we chart connections between and among growers, traders “eaters”. Firstly, argue for a consideration of the actual resources which individuals households build capacity withstand shocks following war. Secondly, explore inequities within production lines effects criminalising...
Abstract Background: In many places, health workers at the sub-national level are on frontlines of disseminating information about coronavirus (COVID-19) to communities. To ensure communities receiving timely and accurate information, it is vital kept abreast most recent recommendations, guidance. Methods: An electronic survey was implemented provide insights dissemination utilisation evidence related COVID-19 pandemic by engaged levels Ugandan system. The aim this individuals Results: Mass...
Abstract Background Evidence-informed decision-making to assist public health practitioners in local-level programme implementation requires adaptive approaches research, policy and practice. To address these needs there is focus on using participatory methods. Adopting such methods, this research asks: what are the evidence of local practitioners? How do processes interact? We reflect process Participatory Systems Mapping (PSM) implications for localising evidence-informed decision-making....
Abstract Background The linear theories of change which ground many interventions do not account for the complex processes and systems in they are implemented. This reductionist approach prioritises statistical methods accommodate stochastic, non-linear, dynamic interactions between humans their environment. inclusion practitioners process evidence development utilisation mitigates these issues results locally relevant, timely decision-making. Methods aim this work was to develop localised...