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6 Ways to Incorporate Social Context and Trust in Infodemic Management
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January 7, 2021

Information epidemiology or infodemiology is the study of infodemics – defined by the World Health Organization as an overabundance of information, some accurate and some not, that occurs during a pandemic or other significant event that may impact public health. Infodemic management is the practice of infodemiology and may sit within the risk communication and… Read more

Education
Improving early learning outcomes in opposition-held Syria
Assignment
April 12, 2018

The ongoing conflict in Syria has taken a devastating toll on the education system; the impact on infrastructure, personnel, resourcing and student attendance is well documented. New DFID-funded research focuses on children’s learning and their exposure to trauma to build a picture of early primary education in opposition-held areas. In combining data on academic performance… Read more

Learning Outcomes, policy brief, primary education, Syria
Building a motivated health workforce during and post the ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone
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July 17, 2015

The already weak health care delivery sector in Sierra Leone has been further overburdened with the Ebola outbreak. All efforts made towards strengthening the health system and working towards providing equitable access to healthcare for all has suffered a major setback. The Ebola outbreak has further highlighted the gaps in the health system namely lack… Read more

Ebola
Health
Managing the Ebola Epidemic in Uganda in 2000 – 2001
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July 17, 2015

Diseases such as Ebola highlight the importance of a holistic focus on health systems, as opposed to assuming that health is the preserve and concern of health professionals alone. This was the lesson Uganda learnt very quickly in managing the Ebola outbreak in 2001. Until the current epidemic in West Africa, Uganda held the unfortunate… Read more

Ebola
Supporting Parenting
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June 4, 2015

Increasingly, policies are being put in place by governments to identify and provide services to parents who are seen as needing additional support in fulfilling their parenting roles. Such policies can be justified on the basis of young children’s rights as well as the accumulating evidence that many problems of development, behaviour and mental health in… Read more

Early Childhood Development, Parenting
Nutrition
Research Summary: Systematic review of complementary feeding interventions for prevention of undernutrition
Assignment
December 19, 2013

This MQSUN Research Summary is based on a systematic review of complementary feeding interventions for prevention of undernutrition. Complementary feeding for infants refers to the timely introduction of safe and nutritional foods in addition to breast-feeding. These foods are typically provided to children from 6 to 24 months of age. It has been suggested that… Read more

Education, MQSUN; complementary feeding
Nutrition
Analysing nutrition governance in fragile contexts: lessons and implications
Assignment
December 18, 2013

This MQSUN Briefing describes lessons learnt and implications from a MQSUN assignment which main objective was to analyze the research and policy challenges for improving nutrition governance in a context of state fragility. Efforts to strengthen government commitment to reduce under nutrition in Fragile and Conflict Affected States (FCAS) face a number of context specific… Read more

Nutrition
Action on under-nutrition in Pakistan: opportunities and barriers
Assignment
October 4, 2013

This Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition Programme (MQSUN) briefing is based on the Political Economy of Under-Nutrition in Pakistan study. It highlights challenges faced for mainstreaming nutrition as an inter-sectoral development priority and provides strategic recommendations using Acosta and Fanzo’s nutrition governance framework.  

Malnutrition, Nutrition, Pakistan, Political Economy
Education
Engaging the Private Sector in Skills Development
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June 30, 2013

The objective of this report is to provide an understanding of the role of the private sector in skills development, both as employers and as skills providers.  The aim of the research was to find potential opportunities to support private sector integration in all aspects of skills development, particularly in low-income countries.  In addition, the… Read more

Health
Prospects for Eradication and Elimination of Malaria: A technical briefing for DFID
Assignment
December 4, 2007

HSRC REPORT: This briefing, concentrates on what is achievable with current tools and contemporary epidemiology in terms of Malaria eradication. New tools are likely to become available over time now that eradication is back on the agenda, backed by significant resources, but there are none which are likely to make global eradication possible currently near… Read more

Access, Malaria
Health
Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks (MTEFs): An Introduction
Assignment
January 5, 2002

HSRC REPORT: A Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks (MTEF) is a multi-year public expenditure planning exercise that is used to set out the future budget requirements for existing services, and to assess the resource implications of future policy changes and any new programmes. This paper describes the role and value of an MTEF, and how it… Read more

Financing, Health Service Delivery
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