Coronavirus: we are risking a covid-19 tragedy in Europe’s refugee camps, writes Nasar Meer
Urgent action is required to protect the inhabitants of over-crowded refugee camps in places like Greece from coronavirus Two things…
Coronashock capitalism: the unintended consequences of radical biopolitics, writes Stefan Ecks
2020 is a significant year for the social sciences. Not only because COVID-19 changed how we think about global connectedness…
COVID-19 and philanthropy in Africa: a stitch in time? By Kenneth Amaeshi
Globally, there are concerted efforts by the private sector to find creative ways of contributing to tackling the pandemic. Some…
Stay calm, be active: simple ways to boost your physical activity during COVID-19 – By Coral Hanson, Paul Kelly, Alice Pearsons, Chloe Williamson, Sheona McHale, Steven Hanson & Lis Neubeck
The COVID-19 global pandemic is rapidly changing the way that we live. Suddenly, large numbers of people are working from…
Covid-19 laboratory preparedness in Africa: lessons can be learned from the Ebola outbreak, write Dr. Ann H. Kelly, Eva Vernooij, and Dr. Alice Street
As Covid-19 pandemic expands its global reach, increasing testing capacity has taken centre stage in government and international agendas. Drawing…
InterSci interview with Dr Luciana Brondi on the public health significance of covid-19
On 26 March 2020, Dr Luciana Brondi was interviewed by the InterSci Edinburgh team on a Facebook livestream on the…
Medicine Anthropology Theory journal publishes virtual issue “Outbreak, Epidemics, and Infectious Diseases”
Medicine Anthropology Theory is an open-access journal in the anthropology of health, illness, and medicine. In January 2020, MAT moved…
Seeing Covid-19, or A visual journey through the epidemic in three acts, writes Cristina Moreno Lozano
Digital newspapers and TV news in Spain (and surely, elsewhere) are full of images and videos narrating the COVID-19 pandemic…
#Covid19: The Spectacle of Real-Time Surveillance, writes Dr Lukas Engelmann
One of the most striking factors of the 1918 Flu pandemic is that the pandemic’s global scope and devastating impact…
When there is an epidemic, social prejudices arise, writes Amitangshu Acharya
In the early 1900s in New York, a strange event took place in the upscale enclaves of Long Island. Many…
Behavioural Responses to Pandemic Influenza: Contingency Planning and its Implementation in the UK, by Prof. Joyce Tait and Dr. Ann Bruce
Government contingency planning for a future pandemic has been undertaken at frequent intervals since before 2005. The Innogen Institute was…
Social justice should be key to pandemic planning and response, writes Dr. Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra
At the start of every public health ethics course I teach, I give my students a list of questions to…
We urgently need to understand the medication histories of COVID-19 victims, writes Dr. Stefan Ecks
On March 18, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Howard Bauchner discussed a possible link between common hypertension medications and…
Lessons for self-isolation from chronically ill patients, writes Ritti Soncco
Since the first cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the UK, the freedoms of movement, socialisation and conviviality that…
The social value of testing has been ignored by public health responses to the Covid-19 outbreak, writes Dr Alice Street.
We now know that testing is essential to our ability to limit the scale and impact of the Covid-19…
The COVID-19 pandemic: are law and human rights also prey to the virus? Asks Prof. Graeme Laurie
COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020. In the United Kingdom, after extensive…
