A5030090891- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Disaster Response and Management
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
- Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
University College London
1999-2024
United Nations Children's Fund
2022
Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
2021
Target (United States)
2021
Anthrologica
2014-2020
Australian National University
2020
Southern Methodist University
2017
University of South Florida
2010-2013
Social scientists have a robust history of contributing to better understandings and responses disease outbreaks. The implementation qualitative research in the context infectious epidemics, however, continues lag behind delivery, credibility, timeliness findings when compared with other designs. purpose this article is reflect on our experience carrying out three studies (a rapid appraisal, study based interviews, mixed-methods survey) aimed at exploring health care delivery COVID-19. We...
Objective The COVID-19 pandemic has set unprecedented demand on the healthcare workforce around world. UK been one of most affected countries in Europe. aim this study was to explore perceptions and experiences workers (HCWs) relation care delivery models implemented deal with UK. Methods designed as a rapid appraisal combining: (1) review policies (n=35 policies), (2) mass media social analysis front-line staff (n=101 newspaper articles, n=1 46 000 posts) (3) in-depth (telephone) interviews...
The role of community health workers (CHWs) in the West Africa Ebola outbreak has been highlighted to advocate for increasing numbers CHWs globally build resilience, strengthen systems, and provide emergency response capacity. However, roles played, challenges they faced, their effectiveness during are not well documented. This study assessed impact on community-based maternal, newborn, child (MNCH) services, documented contribution other actors response, identified lessons learned...
Reflexivity constitutes a core component of qualitative research and has been actively integrated into long-term “lone ranger” approaches to research. However, its application team-based particularly rapid continues lag behind. In this article, we introduce reflexivity model developed for teams undertaking studies. Utilizing our most recent appraisal health care workers’ experiences delivering during the COVID-19 pandemic as case study, identify steps put practice main outcomes. Our revealed...
Children have largely been overlooked as research participants in anthropological work. The anthropology of childhood has played an instrumental role bringing attention to this fact, and it highlighted important contributions children's viewpoints can make our discipline. In article, we present three case studies that involved children active through the use visual methodology: V indrola‐ P adros's A rgentina used drawing techniques document experiences oncology treatment; J ohnson's work K...
Background Safely burying Ebola infected individuals is acknowledged to be important for controlling epidemics and was a major component of the 2013–2016 West Africa response. Yet, in order understand impact safe burial programs it necessary elucidate role unsafe burials sustaining chains transmission how risk posed by activities surrounding burials, including care provided at home prior death, vary with human behavior geography. Methodology/Principal findings Interviews next kin community...
Through ethnographic research, including participatory photography or “photovoice,” this research project explored the changing landscape of childhood faced by children living in orphanages K enya amidst ongoing political violence and disease epidemics. In particular, focused on documenting children's perceptions experiences two orphanages: urban ayole R ehabilitation C entre, a governmental agency N airobi; F lying ites enya, rural nonprofit organization jabini. Each child was given...
While analyzing the narratives of children receiving pediatric oncology treatment and their parents, we encountered three ways to look at narratives: what was narrated, nonnarrated, disnarrated. The narrated refers actors (characters) events (scenes) individuals decided include in narration experiences, nonnarrated are everything not included narration, disnarrated elements that story but did actually take place. We use our reflection illustrate how an integrative analysis these different...
Participant-Generated Visual Data • 27 developed personal history timelines that served as a starting point for interviews to explore research themes with deaf youth participants.Ginger A. Johnson's in Cairo, Egypt, Sudanese refugee women utilized images created through photovoice methodology participatory analysis of their photos.Cecilia Vindrola-Padros prepared by child participants undergoing cancer treatment use the dissemination fi ndings among this population.This article highlights...
Abstract Background The majority of documented social accountability initiatives to date have been ‘tactical’ in nature, employing single-tool, mostly community-based approaches. This article provides lessons from a ‘strategic’, multi-tool, multi-level project: UNICEF’s ‘Social Accountability for Every Woman Child’ intervention Malawi. Methods project targeted the national, district and community levels. Three Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) were engaged carry out interventions using...
A partnership between the University of Antwerp and Kinshasa implemented EBOVAC3 clinical trial with an Ebola vaccine regimen administered to health care provider participants in Tshuapa Province, Democratic Republic Congo. This randomized controlled was part outbreak preparedness initiative financed through Innovative Medicines Initiative-European Union. The used iris scan technology identify all enrolled trial, ensure that right participant received at visit.We aimed assess acceptability,...
Purpose : To identify the reasons for subjects deciding to attend or not local and referral ophthalmology clinics in south-west Uganda, establish levels of satisfaction clinic attenders with services they received. Methods A population survey identified ocular conditions who were referred district hospital. All non-attenders a group interviewed at home. Results 31% those did clinic. The most common 'too busy' (29%) 'unwilling buy spectacles' (17%). Less than half satisfied, mainly because no...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic disrupted the delivery of elective surgery in United Kingdom. majority planned was cancelled or postponed March 2020 for duration first wave pandemic. We investigated experiences staff responsible delivering rapid changes to surgical services during Kingdom, with aim developing lessons future major systems change (MSC).Using a qualitative study design, we conducted 25 interviews frontline Framework analysis used organise and interpret...
Previous studies produced on the movement of individuals with HIV/AIDS for obtainment medical services have rarely been conducted in Global South and neglected experiences child patients. This article presents a new type travel care, where HIV+ children Kenya are being placed or choose to be orphanages order obtain constant access antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, proper nutrition, education. Through participant observation photo-elicitation interviews their immediate family members surrounding...
The globalization of media allows for the images and stories marginalized excluded groups to be seen heard by more people than ever before, creating ‘mediascapes’ in which such populations compete visibility on an imagined global stage. We liken 140-character Twitter messages, sent received regarding North African social protests, as one mediascape providing a slice reality into political ideology Egyptian youth. Informed anthropological theory utilizing powerful data collection techniques...
In response to Kenya's goal of free and universal primary education for every child by 2015, this paper describes a few the obstacles that one most visible periphery populations in Kenya, orphaned children, face attempting reach objective. The frequently cited barriers children their caretakers consistent school attendance included: inability pay fees, lack uniform, difficulty providing assis- tance presence disease/illness family disruption due political violence. Conducted Kikuyu community...