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The Role of Social, Cultural and Environmental Factors in Improving Ebola Virus Disease Response and Resilience: Exploring the Potential of Community-Based Initiatives

About this project
This study aims to uncover and analyze the social (i.e. the cultural, political and economic dimensions) and environmental dimensions of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreaks in West Africa. As a multi-country research, it will focus on exploring how context-based factors in Sierra Leone and Liberia contributes to the onset of the outbreak itself by making a particular community prone to an EVD outbreak. It will also seek to understand how the same factors came to influence the social dynamics arising in the subsequent epidemiological and public health responses. The intention is to identify and draw insights from valuable learnings from the study (about the social and environmental factors) that can be applied to improve existing epidemiological surveillance and public health response strategies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), prioritizing community-based initiatives (CBIs).

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York University

Funded by
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

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