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Editor, Senior Moderator
Front Public Health
. 2024 Aug 16:12:1394569.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1394569. eCollection 2024. Pandemic preparedness: why humanities and social sciences matter
Sally Frampton[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Kingsley Orievulu[SUP] 2 3 4 [/SUP], Philippa C Matthews[SUP] 5 6 7 8 [/SUP], Alberto Giubilini[SUP] 9 [/SUP], Joshua Hordern[SUP] 10 [/SUP], Lizzie Burns[SUP] 11 [/SUP], Sean Elias[SUP] 12 [/SUP], Ethan Friederich[SUP] 13 [/SUP], Nomathamsanqa Majozi[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Sam Martin[SUP] 14 15 [/SUP], Austin Stevenson[SUP] 16 [/SUP], Samantha Vanderslott[SUP] 14 [/SUP], Janet Seeley[SUP] 2 17 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Whilst many lessons were learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing reflection is needed to develop and maintain preparedness for future outbreaks. Within the field of infectious disease and public health there remain silos and hierarchies in interdisciplinary work, with the risk that humanities and social sciences remain on the epistemological peripheries. However, these disciplines offer insights, expertise and tools that contribute to understanding responses to disease and uptake of interventions for prevention and treatment. In this Perspective, using examples from our own cross-disciplinary research and engagement programme on vaccine hesitancy in South Africa and the United Kingdom (UK), we propose closer integration of expertise, research and methods from humanities and social sciences into pandemic preparedness.
Keywords: ethics; history; humanities; pandemic preparedness; religion; social sciences; vaccination; vaccine hesitancy.
. 2024 Aug 16:12:1394569.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1394569. eCollection 2024. Pandemic preparedness: why humanities and social sciences matter
Sally Frampton[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Kingsley Orievulu[SUP] 2 3 4 [/SUP], Philippa C Matthews[SUP] 5 6 7 8 [/SUP], Alberto Giubilini[SUP] 9 [/SUP], Joshua Hordern[SUP] 10 [/SUP], Lizzie Burns[SUP] 11 [/SUP], Sean Elias[SUP] 12 [/SUP], Ethan Friederich[SUP] 13 [/SUP], Nomathamsanqa Majozi[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Sam Martin[SUP] 14 15 [/SUP], Austin Stevenson[SUP] 16 [/SUP], Samantha Vanderslott[SUP] 14 [/SUP], Janet Seeley[SUP] 2 17 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 39220463
- PMCID: PMC11361931
- DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1394569
Whilst many lessons were learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing reflection is needed to develop and maintain preparedness for future outbreaks. Within the field of infectious disease and public health there remain silos and hierarchies in interdisciplinary work, with the risk that humanities and social sciences remain on the epistemological peripheries. However, these disciplines offer insights, expertise and tools that contribute to understanding responses to disease and uptake of interventions for prevention and treatment. In this Perspective, using examples from our own cross-disciplinary research and engagement programme on vaccine hesitancy in South Africa and the United Kingdom (UK), we propose closer integration of expertise, research and methods from humanities and social sciences into pandemic preparedness.
Keywords: ethics; history; humanities; pandemic preparedness; religion; social sciences; vaccination; vaccine hesitancy.