Megan Schmidt-Sane (@mschmidtsane) 's Twitter Profile
Megan Schmidt-Sane

@mschmidtsane

Medical anthropologist | urban health and well-being | epidemic preparedness & response | political economy of health. Research Fellow at @IDS_UK @SSHAP_action

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Take a look at the new special issue on medical mistrust edited by Megan Schmidt-Sane @THrynick Dr Elizabeth Storer & Santi Ripoll. I have an article in the issue too: The centrality of (mis)trust in pandemic preparedness in Sub-Saharan Africa: a conceptual framework thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/jou…

Institute of Development Studies (@ids_uk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Emergency rules have started in #Zambia to help combat the #Cholera outbreak. Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform, in partnership with IDS, have resources to support effective, community-centred & data-driven community engagement for cholera outbreak response 👇 socialscienceinaction.pulse.ly/0o9vdreszc 1/3

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ROAPE is now fully open access, each journal article, review, briefing & debate for 50 years is available for everyone to read. ROAPE is also welcoming new submissions to our peer-reviewed journal. Here are instructions how to submit on our new platform. roape.net/2024/01/18/roa…

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From Accra to Tokyo, Harare to Washington, the continent’s pool of research experts, lecturers and other scholars have been making life-changing decisions that help change the world every day. Sheriff Bojang Jr. features 10 African scholars to watch this year. theafricareport.com/334013/10-afri…

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The ‘Bill Gates problem’: do billionaire philanthropists skew global health research? (answer: yes) by Andy Stirling nature.com/articles/d4158…

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📽️ We've got a new short video documentary about community-involved TB support in #India, created with our partner SPARC India. Watch it now: ariseconsortium.org/learn-more-arc… #tuberculosis Huge thanks to film maker Mihir Patilhande and our colleague ونود روVinodkumar Rao for all their work!

📽️ We've got a new short video documentary about community-involved TB support in #India, created with our partner <a href="/SPARCIndia2/">SPARC India</a>. 
Watch it now: ariseconsortium.org/learn-more-arc… #tuberculosis
Huge thanks to film maker <a href="/mihirpatilhande/">Mihir Patilhande</a> and our colleague <a href="/raovinodtweets/">ونود روVinodkumar Rao</a> for all their work!
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Please consider supporting our incredible partners Muungano wa Wanavijiji wa Wanavijiji who are supporting the tens of thousands of households living in informal settlements that have been badly affected by severe flooding across the city. justgiving.com/crowdfunding/M…

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For other Columbia alumni, here's a letter of support for student protesters: wearecolumbia.org #StudentProtests #ColumbiaUniversity

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I really enjoyed Moore-Sheeley's meticulously researched book on #ITNs (& what led to their scale up). As we all know, ITNs are ubiquitous in SSA, and yet rarely are critically examined. How did we get here, and what does this tell us about the state of #globalhealth? Read more:

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What's politics got to do with it? In our The BMJ analysis piece we argue that viewing vaccines as inherently political can help to build trust in an age of misinformation bmj.com/content/385/bm…

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💡NEW BRIEF 💊Which contextual factors shape #health emergencies in the #WestAfrica region? How should these inform priorities for responding to health crises? Read the brief 👇socialscienceinaction.org/resources/ssha…

💡NEW BRIEF 
💊Which contextual factors shape #health emergencies in the #WestAfrica region? How should these inform priorities for responding to health crises?
Read the brief 👇socialscienceinaction.org/resources/ssha…
Institute of Development Studies (@ids_uk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

IDS researchers are among those receiving new funding grants under two UK initiatives to foster innovative and international social science collaborations. 🌎 Including Shilpi Srivastava Ian Scoones CarolineKhene Megan Schmidt-Sane 👇 ac.pulse.ly/cifatu1cpt

IDS researchers are among those receiving new funding grants under two UK initiatives to foster innovative and international social science collaborations. 🌎

Including <a href="/grassandgreens/">Shilpi Srivastava</a> <a href="/IanScoones/">Ian Scoones</a> <a href="/CarolineKhene/">CarolineKhene</a> <a href="/MSchmidtSane/">Megan Schmidt-Sane</a>

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Institute of Development Studies (@ids_uk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A new #mpox emergency has been declared but the politics of global inequities persist. A 🧵 of the analysis from IDS researcher Hayley MacGregor as part of Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform. 👇 1/7

A new #mpox emergency has been declared but the politics of global inequities persist.

A 🧵 of the analysis from IDS researcher Hayley MacGregor as part of <a href="/SSHAP_action/">Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform</a>.

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Megan Schmidt-Sane (@mschmidtsane) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is going to be an important test of our global health security system(s). I hope we actually use learning from COVID, esp around vax and therapeutics equity and the use of social science in response.