SSHAP webinar: Mobilising Social Science for Humanitarian Action - Insights and Lessons
13:00 to 14:30 UTC, Thursday 7 November 2024
Register: https://tinyurl.com/4nh9u3v7
Dear Colleagues
Join us on 7 November 2024 to explore key insights and lessons from the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform's (SSHAP) mobilisation of social science perspectives and evidence to improve preparedness and response to outbreaks, emergencies and humanitarian crises.
The webinar will feature SSHAP members, partners and stakeholders who will share and discuss learnings from SSHAP's work and consider how to encourage and support emergency preparedness and responses that are contextually informed, sensitive to vulnerabilities and power relations, planned in consultation with affected communities and local institutions, and based on social and interdisciplinary science and evidence.
We will explore a range of themes to enhance the integration and impact of social science knowledge and expertise, including localisation of leadership and knowledge; capacity building of individuals, institutions, and networks; and responding to knowledge needs and gaps.
Contributors
* Jeremy Farrar, Chief Scientist, World Health Organization
* Rachel James, Interagency RCCE Coordinator for East and Southern Africa, UNICEF/Collective Service
* Leben Nelson Moro, Professor of Development Studies & Director, Directorate of Planning, Innovation & Quality Assurance, University of Juba, South Sudan
* Hanna Woldemeskel, Social and Behaviour Change Manager, UNICEF Zambia
* Hayley MacGregor, Professor of Medical Anthropology and Global Health, Institute of Development Studies, UK
* Juliet Bedford, Founder and Director, Anthrologica, UK
Chair
* Melissa Parker, Professor of Medical Anthropology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Register for the webinar: https://tinyurl.com/4nh9u3v7
About SSHAP
The Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) is a programme of work focusing on the social dimensions of emergency responses. Our vision is to encourage emergency responses which are effective, adaptive, contextually informed, sensitive to vulnerabilities and power relations, planned in consultation with affected communities and local institutions, and based on social and interdisciplinary science and evidence.
We provide evidence on demand, capacity-building, and networking spaces on emergencies that relate to health, conflict, or the environment. We focus our efforts on exploring the political economy, community engagement and cultural logics, social difference, and vulnerabilities of those emergencies.
SSHAP is a partnership between the Institute of Development Studies<https://www.ids.ac.uk/>, Anthrologica <https://www.anthrologica.com/> , Gulu University<https://gu.ac.ug/>, Le Groupe d'Etudes sur les Conflits et la Sécurité Humaine (GEC-SH)<https://gecshceruki.org/>, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine<https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/>, University of Juba<https://uoj.edu.ss/>, CRCF Senegal<https://crcf.sn/>, University of Ibadan <https://www.ui.edu.ng/> and the Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre<https://www.slurc.org/>. SSHAP is supported by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office<https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-develop... and the Wellcome Trust<https://wellcome.ac.uk/>, with previous funding from UNICEF.<https://www.unicef.org.uk/>
Tom Barker
Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform
Health and Nutrition Cluster
Institute of Development Studies
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HIFA profile: Tom Barker is Senior Health Convenor in the Health and Nutrition Cluster of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK Tom has 15 years’ experience working in knowledge brokering, research communication, policy engagement, and parliamentary influencing in the UK health and international development policy arenas. Tom manages a portfolio of health and nutrition projects working in Sub- Saharan Africa and Asia, including Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, China, India and Bangladesh, including Future Health Systems, and is currently Communications Manager for Health Systems Global. Previously Tom managed a research knowledge brokering network for the UK National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research Programme; facilitated engagements with the UK Parliament for the NHS Confederation, a membership body for NHS organisations; and ran the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Primary Care and Public Health. Tom has an MSc Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. t.barker AT ids.ac.uk