Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Whilst many lessons were learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing reflection is needed to develop and maintain preparedness for future outbreaks. Within the field of infectious disease and public health there remain silos and hierarchies in interdisciplinary work, with the risk that humanities and social sciences remain on the epistemological peripheries. However, these disciplines offer insights, expertise and tools that contribute to understanding responses to disease and uptake of interventions for prevention and treatment. In this Perspective, using examples from our own cross-disciplinary research and engagement programme on vaccine hesitancy in South Africa and the United Kingdom (UK), we propose closer integration of expertise, research and methods from humanities and social sciences into pandemic preparedness.
Source: Frontiers in Public Health
Institutions: University of Oxford, University of Johannesburg, Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University College Hospital, The Francis Crick Institute, University College London, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Palm Beach Atlantic University, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,295
Funders: Wellcome Trust, Francis Crick Institute
OpenAlex ID: W4401652510