As Covid-19 created medical and economic havoc the world over, it highlighted 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 produces 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. As the Covid-19 pandemic recedes, our project also explores the traces, remains and afterlives it leaves behind.
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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. As the Covid-19 pandemic morphed into a post-pandemic landscape during this project's lifetime, we are also exploring the afterlives of the pandemic, and anti-epidemic measures, in Kenya.
Cooperation
Our partners are at the university of Maseno and the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in Kenya; and the University of Cambridge, UK.
Financing
The Research Council of Norway.
Project Start and Finish
June 2021 to December 2025.