Webinar, Thursday 27 April 2023, 12:00 to 13:30 (UTC +1)
https://www.socialscienceinaction.org/blogs-and-news/mpox-as-a-public-he...
Dear Colleagues
How can global disease preparedness and response efforts adapt better to regional diversity in the experience of outbreaks and related vulnerabilities? How can global efforts interconnect more effectively with national and regional preparedness and take account of varying priorities and perspectives?
We invite you and your colleagues to join us on Thursday 27 April 2023 at 12:00 (UTC+1) to explore new evidence from Nigeria concerning the 2022 multi-country Mpox outbreak and to consider wider research and insights on national, regional and global perspectives on epidemic preparedness and response.
A rise in Mpox virus cases detected in West Africa from 2017 provided warning signs of the potential for outbreaks elsewhere. Yet it was not until the multi-country outbreak in 2022 that the disease received significant global attention and a public health emergency of international concern was declared.
At a time of renewed discussion of epidemic preparedness and the governance of pandemics in the light of COVID-19, the Mpox outbreak provides further opportunity for reflection on the politics of priority setting, on resource allocation and on responding to the particularities of outbreak scenarios in different contexts.
This webinar on 27 April 2023 will draw on new evidence from a six-month research collaboration on Mpox in Nigeria (University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and the Institute of Development Studies, UK), as well as wider research.
A panel of experts will consider questions such as what can be done to strengthen community-level efforts for outbreak detection and care provision and how might approaches be adapted to different contexts, with different health systems and legal environments? And what are the implications of lessons from COVID-19, both for Mpox responses as well as for future preparedness?
Speakers
• Dr Chinwe Lucia Ochu, Director, Planning, Research & Statistics, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
• Dr Caesar Alimsinya Atuire, Department of Philosophy and Classics, University of Ghana
• Dr Jeremy Williams, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, University College London, UK
• Prof Melissa Leah, Institute of Development Studies, UK
• Prof Ayodele Jegede, Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria (Co-Chair)
• Prof Hayley MacGregor, Institute of Development Studies, UK (Co-Chair)
Register for the webinar: https://www.socialscienceinaction.org/blogs-and-news/mpox-as-a-public-he...
Please do share this invitation with your networks and colleagues, if appropriate.
Kind regards
Tom Barker
Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform
Health & Nutrition Cluster
Institute of Development Studies
HIFA profile: Tom Barker is Communications Manager, Health Systems Global at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). 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@ids.ac.uk
