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Emergency: Ebola
Briefing | K4D helpdesk service
Lessons learned from Ebola outbreak 9 in Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
The report presents a brief background on situational factors in Equateur province of relevance to emergency health interventions, and a short summary of the 2018 Ebola outbreak and sequencing of...
Article | University of Sussex
Comparison of Social Resistance to Ebola Response in Sierra Leone and Guinea Suggests Explanations Lie in Political Configurations not Culture
Case study | SSHAP
Balancing Burial Rituals with Public Health Demands During the 2014 Guinean Ebola Epidemic
This SSHAP Case Study explains how an anthropologist negotiated a medically safe burial for a pregnant woman who had died of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in a Kissi community at...
Briefing |
The syndemic of COVID-19 and gender-based violence in humanitarian settings: leveraging lessons from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo
This brief leverages learnings from the 2018–2020 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to inform and strengthen ongoing responses related to GBV and COVID-19 within humanitarian...
| SSHAP
SSHAP Roundtable: 2021 Ebola Outbreak in Guinea
SSHAP convened a virtual roundtable of expert advisors on Friday 12 March 2021 to discuss the outbreak of Ebola in Guinea declared on 14 February 2021.
| CDC
Lessons Learned from 2014–2016 Ebola Outbreak in Guinea: A Review of RCCE Related Publications
This report reviews the 46 published reports of Ebola-related activities undertaken during the 2013–2016 outbreak in Guinea.
Project document | ECDC
Best practice recommendations for conducting after-action reviews to enhance public health preparedness
This report identifies the common features of after-action reviews, develops a validity assessment tool for appraising them, and proposes a set of best practice recommendations.
Tool | SSHAP
Local Burial and Mourning Practices: Open-Ended Questions
These questionnaires allow for a rapid quantitative survey (see excel sheet) and qualitative (see word document) appraisal of burial and funeral practices in the context of an Ebola outbreak.
Toolkit | IFRC
COVID-19 Community Feedback Package
This resource package was put together to provide you with the tools and guidance you need to set up mechanisms for systematically listening and responding to communities in our response...
Article |
Lessons From the West Africa Ebola Epidemic: A Systematic Review of Epidemiological and Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities
This systematic literature review compared the epidemiological (EPI) research and the qualitative social and behavioural science (SBS) research published during the West Africa Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic.
Case study, Report |
What can community perspectives bring to Ebola virus disease preparedness in Uganda?
Case study | HPG, ODI, RISD
Collective approaches to risk communication and community engagement in the Ebola response in North Kivu (DRC)
On 1 August 2018, the 10th epidemic of Ebola virus disease was declared by the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). With a total of 3,463 cases...