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Zika – What Are the Real Lessons from Ebola?

By Robert Dingwall | Published: February 1, 2016

Another disease in the tropics has the World Health Organisation in a lather, and again biomedicine's response will not be all that useful in the short term. Social science can help now to address the underlying problems that help the Zika virus to spread -- if policymakers will listen.

Ebola: WHO and the Consequences of Ignoring Social Science

By Robert Dingwall | Published: July 10, 2015

A new report from the World Health Organization on the response to the African Ebola outbreak backs up what our Robert Dingwall has been writing all along -- by downplaying social science lives have been lost. The question now is whether a new WHO can improve.

Ebola – WHO (Still) Don’t Get It: Social Science Saves Lives

By Robert Dingwall | Published: February 9, 2015

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa reminds us of a key lesson in public health, notes Robert Dingwall: Biomedical solutions will always come late, while social science-based interventions can break the cycle much sooner.

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Zika – What Are the Real Lessons from Ebola?

Ebola: WHO and the Consequences of Ignoring Social Science

Ebola – WHO (Still) Don’t Get It: Social Science Saves Lives

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