Social and behavioural factors are critical to the emergence, spread and containment of
human disease, and are key determinants of the course, duration and outcomes of disease …

COVID-19 has caused unprecedented health, economic and societal impacts across the
world, including many low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). The pandemic and its …

Over 40 filovirus disease outbreaks have been reported since the discovery of the first
member of the Filoviridae family, and most of the outbreaks have occurred in Africa. In …

In an effort to gauge the global pandemic's impact on social thoughts and behavior, it is
important to answer the following questions:(1) What kinds of topics are individuals and …

Health innovations are generally oriented on a techno-economic vision. In this perspective,
technologies are seen as an end in themselves, and there is no arrangement between the …

Abstract The Ebola epidemic in West Africa (2013–2016) was a learning process for all–the
population, health experts and practitioners, as well as government structures. Learning …

Studies of vulnerability often focus on the differential susceptibility of marginalised groups to
the effects of disaster. This paper considers how vulnerability is also associated with the …

The Covid-19 pandemic brings back to the fore traditions of interconnected health
governance in Africa, both at regional and inter-regional levels. Using the early pandemic …

Prior disaster experiences often provide lessons for communities to respond to new
disasters. In informal communities prone to disasters but conditioned within reactive disaster …

Whilst men and boys account for more COVID-19 cases and deaths, the secondary impacts
of the outbreak on women and girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are cross …