ESRC Shock Tactics Urban Health Futures in the Wake of Ebola
About this project
This research, undertaken in partnership with the Institute of Development Studies in the UK, seeks to understand the resilience of health systems in the post Ebola period. The three year ethnographic research is targeting the Freetown informal settlements of CKG and Moyiba to understand the following:
For further information on this project, please contact Dr. Joseph M Macarthy, Executive Director of SLURC.
This research, undertaken in partnership with the Institute of Development Studies in the UK, seeks to understand the resilience of health systems in the post Ebola period. The three year ethnographic research is targeting the Freetown informal settlements of CKG and Moyiba to understand the following:
- how people in informal settlements understand or misunderstand health conditions they typically experience
- how outsiders understand the health conditions of informal settlement dwellers
- strategies that informal settlers think could be applied to address their health problems.
For further information on this project, please contact Dr. Joseph M Macarthy, Executive Director of SLURC.