Recent Discussions
SSHAP (the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform)
The UK-PHRST continues to contribute to SSHAP (the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform) a programme of work focusing on the social dimensions of emergency responses and aims to encourage emergency responses ...
Africa CDC Covid-19 Resources
Africa CDC have build up a comprehensive set of documents and publications on COVID-19 at https://africacdc.org/covid-19/covid-19-resources/ including Manuals, Guidelines & Frameworks, Policy Updates and Outbreak briefs. Discussion below or share similar links ...
Contact tracing technology
Identifying and testing people who may have been in contact with a COVID-19 positive case is crucial to limit the spread of COVD-19. Contact tracing has been used during previous outbreaks but ...
Recent Blog Posts
Modelling the spread of COVID-19 and the impact of public health interventions in Cox’s Bazar and other refugee camps
David Kennedy (Data Scientist, UK-PHRST) has been working with a team made up of Cox’s Bazar public health and information management ...
Microbiology in Sierra Leone
(By Dr Benedict Gannon, Senior Microbiologist Lead, UK-PHRST) OUTBREAK RESPONSE I arrived in Sierra Leone in August 2017 ...
Evaluating COVID-19 exit strategies using open source modelling tools
In this guest blog Dr Mark Hanly, Oisin Fitzgerald and Dr Tim Churches from the Centre for Big Data Research ...
Open data and the COVID-19 pandemic
During an infectious disease outbreak, data can show how the disease is spreading and who is most at risk. Previous ...
COVID-19 Stories: Hana Rohan
Dr Hana Rohan is Assistant Professor in Social Science at LSHTM and a member of the UK Public Health Rapid ...