New briefing: Essential reading to understand the broad spectrum of vaccine hesitance and lessons for how to inspire vaccine confidence. Please look and share 👇

Annie Wilkinson I believe this is the article you were referring to in our conversation where they state that: "More leaders of global health organisations are alumni of Harvard than are women from LMICs." I could retweet so many sections of this paper, it's such a great piece!

See our latest blog on how epidemic response is always political (as Sophie Harman Simukai Chigudu and many others have already said). Rather, a 'good politics' (Kelley Lee) is needed to continue momentum & build vaccine confidence after this start of the #COVID19Vaccine rollout.

To mark Universal Health Coverage Day we are launching our ARISE map (created by Leah Murphy Brettell of Institute of Development Studies) A new way of visualising our work on health and accountability in informal urban spaces! Check it out 👇🏽 ariseconsortium.org/arise-map/ #UniversalHealthCoverage #UHCDay

Come join us today at 1.30pm UK time!

The acknowledgement of the role and resourcefulness of community groups in Africa's ongoing fight against #COVID-19 is a story that needs to be told over and over again- check our new paper Urban_Know SLURC The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) ARISE Slum Dwellers International African Cities Research Consortium degruyter.com/view/journals/…

Sonar Global's latest podcast on Covid-19 data, talking to these facinating people 👇 about data visualization, narratives and the infodemic. We hope you enjoy!

New article in @socscimed based on my U.S. National Science Foundation funded ethnographic research in an informal settlement in Kampala, discussing providing women (and dependent men) with implications for shifting #masculinities and #HIV. SocietyMedAnthro Menstar Coalition Institute of Development Studies authors.elsevier.com/a/1cnRx-CmUs0P7

New paper on intersectionality and health in Freetown. Brilliant and detailed work using life histories and governance diaries by Abu Conteh and Joseph Mustapha Macarthy at SLURC

📣In 1️⃣ week we are excited to welcome our 1st cohort of fellows coming from Asia, East Africa, Southern Africa and West Africa. 🔎You can follow some of them: Ganesh Dhungana Prof. Salome Bukachi Pacesetter💫 Samiratou Ouédraogo @Mezie_Anueyiagu 💻Find out more: socialscienceinaction.org/fellows/

EVENT: 29 April❗️ Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform co-PI @mleach_ids will be hosting this launch event for a special issue of Anthropology in Action edited by Megan Schmidt-Sane, Catherine Grant , Santiago Ripoll, @THrynick & Syed Abbas.🗨️ Register:👉eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-scien… Anthropology of Preparedness Institute of Development Studies

Hard to sum up how exciting this is! Tom Mustill's book is fascinating, funny and hopeful, plus it's beautifully written and a total page turner. Do read it!

Happy to be included in this list, and good to know our paper was well read (see acknowledgment for contributors!). Pleased to be alongside so many female authors too 👏

Looking for some mind expanding reading? Check out my husband's new book How To Speak Whale exploring the weird and wonderful world of AI and animal communication, and the humbling idea of speaking to other species. I've read it twice and it's really really good 👏

Dissemination of findings from the ESRC funded Shock Tactics research in Freetown. A research collaboration between SLURC and Institute of Development Studies. We learned that the urban poor have limitless agency to initiate change. What they need is leadership. ARISE Annie Wilkinson

Fantastic write up of a fantastic book 😍

Deadline tomorrow for senior researcher job with a fantastic urban research organisation!

Bravo Sonar-Global, recipients of #EtoilesDeLEurope prize from French Ministry of Higher Education &Research. Tamara Giles-Vernick received the award from Sylvie Retailleau. Institut Pasteur, since 1887 @aighd CRCF Makerere University BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health MORU @MedUni_Vienna Institute of Development Studies Rachel Carson Center GloPID-R

Highly recommended!

Roger Payne, legend of whale biology and marine conservation has died. The world has lost a force of nature. I wrote a book with Roger in it, he took me under his wing and we became friends. Here is a small part of the story of this wonderful human. 🧵