Megan Schmidt-Sane
@MSchmidtSane
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Medical anthropologist | urban health and well-being | epidemic preparedness & response | political economy of health. Research Fellow at @IDS_UK @SSHAP_action
Joined September 2009
New article based on our recent research: Infrastructures of epidemic response: #Mpox and everyday repair work in Nigeria https://t.co/d0qQXMxWS4
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New letter: “At the syndemic intersection of #mpox and HIV, where do migrants stand?”
thelancet.com
In August, 2024, WHO and the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern in a bid to coordinate urgent responses and fast-track...
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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.
This week’s cover: a Lancet Editorial on #mpox, once again a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) demanding a coordinated international response. Editorial ▶️ https://t.co/iaOoNl5mI2 Full issue ▶️ https://t.co/iOWVZLqg93
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A new mpox emergency declared but the politics of global inequities persist https://t.co/In61aGfvvB via @IDS_UK
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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 @SSHAP_action. 👇 1/7
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What's politics got to do with it? In our @bmj_latest analysis piece we argue that viewing vaccines as inherently political can help to build trust in an age of misinformation https://t.co/qFx8esMfXL
bmj.com
Global health leaders often dismiss politics as antithetical to the aims of public health, but Luisa Enria and colleagues argue that political analysis can offer new ways to build trust in vaccinat...
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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 👇 https://t.co/rrKtCl1vXY
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IDS researchers are among those receiving new funding grants under two UK initiatives to foster innovative and international social science collaborations. 🌎 Including @grassandgreens @IanScoones @CarolineKhene @MSchmidtSane 👇 https://t.co/YH0nQyuizl
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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:
In her new review for #HAReads, @MSchmidtSane of @IDS_UK reviews "What Insecticide-Treated Mosquito Nets Can Tell Us About The State Of Global Health" by Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, which discusses how these nets are a lens to understand wider issues of power.
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Who Could Catch Bird Flu First? These Experts Have an Idea, and a Way to Help.
nytimes.com
We need to start aggressively testing dairy workers for bird flu to safeguard their health as well as ours — now.
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For other Columbia alumni, here's a letter of support for student protesters: https://t.co/CyRjqaWnPx
#StudentProtests #ColumbiaUniversity
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Please consider supporting our incredible partners @Wanavijiji_sdi 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. https://t.co/zpPNlWlQDW
justgiving.com
Help Alice Sverdlik raise money to support a great cause
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📽️ We've got a new short video documentary about community-involved TB support in #India, created with our partner @SPARCIndia2. Watch it now: https://t.co/hM2E8Z7fvb
#tuberculosis Huge thanks to film maker @mihirpatilhande and our colleague @raovinodtweets for all their work!
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The ‘Bill Gates problem’: do billionaire philanthropists skew global health research? (answer: yes) by Andy Stirling
nature.com
Nature - Personal priorities are often trumping real needs and skewing where charitable funding goes.
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I'm humbled to be nominated in @TheAfricaReport's top 10 & especially to be sharing a platform with scholars I highly respect! Than you!! @kafmurhula @SimuChigudu @huma_africa @UCT_news @UCT_Research @ASAA_Africa
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. @Sheriffb features 10 African scholars to watch this year.
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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. @Sheriffb features 10 African scholars to watch this year.
theafricareport.com
African scholars – in Africa and in the diaspora – make significant contributions to the wellbeing of people and society both at home and abroad.
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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. https://t.co/SDHXKqHQ0t
roape.net
ROAPE is now fully open access, each journal article, review, briefing and debate published for 50 years is available for everyone to read, download and share. As well as moving to a new open access...
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Emergency rules have started in #Zambia to help combat the #Cholera outbreak. @SSHAP_action, in partnership with IDS, have resources to support effective, community-centred & data-driven community engagement for cholera outbreak response 👇 https://t.co/6m7pAiZG3N 1/3
socialscienceinaction.org
This collection explores the recent surge in Cholera outbreaks across the globe, which resurfaced in 2021.
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Take a look at the new special issue on medical mistrust edited by @MSchmidtSane @THrynick @lizziestorer & 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 https://t.co/bJD9H5Aqp8
thebritishacademy.ac.uk
Article by Catherine Grant, posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 11, supplementary issue 6 (Exploring Medical Mistrust: From Clinic to Community)
New supplementary issue of the Journal of the British Academy, 'Exploring Medical Mistrust: From Clinic to Community' explores and unpacks the complex relationships intertwined with contemporary manifestations of mistrust in medicine: https://t.co/rjKDmJwQIY
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