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Epidemics and African Health Systems: Covid-19 in Kenya

This project addresses an urgent issue in global health: the response of African health systems to the Covid-19 pandemic.

A lorry from the Kenyan Ministry of Health disseminating information about the novel coronavirus

The United States delivers 990,990 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Kenya, on October 28, 2021. [U.S. government photo/ Public Domain]

As Covid-19 creates medical and economic havoc the world over, it is highlighting the vital role of robust national health systems. We need to understand forms of resilience as well as fragilities in health systems as they respond to emerging epidemics. We also need to understand how epidemic interventions relate to people’s lives.

Using ethnographic methods combined with public health and epidemiology, our project will produce vital knowledge of the intersection between Covid-19 and the Kenyan health system, from the perspectives of those working within and using it.

More broadly we aim to explore the intersections between epidemics, health systems and people’s lives.

 

 Background 

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Projects

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Objectives

The project’s overall objective is to explore the intersections between epidemics, health systems and people’s lives, with a focus on Kenya’s response to Covid19.

Cooperation

Our partners are at the university of Maseno and the Kenya Medical Research Institute in Kenya; and the University of Cambridge, UK (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

Financing

The Research Council of Norway.

Project Start and Finish

June 2021 to June 2025.

 

    Tags: COVID-19, epidemics, pandemic, Kenya
    Published Nov. 5, 2021 8:04 AM - Last modified Jan. 16, 2023 5:07 PM