Ebola: Applied Social Science

Ebola: Applied Social Science 

CHAIRS: KUNSTADTER, Peter (PHPT), AMAYA-BURNS, Alba (Duke U & Duke Kunshan U), BURNS, Allan (UF)

ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS: KUNSTADTER, Peter (PHPT), AMAYA-BURNS, Alba (Duke U & Duke Kunshan U), BURNS, Allan (UF), and SCHACHT REISINGER, Heather (CADRE - Iowa City VAHCS)

 

ABSTRACT:

KUNSTADTER, Peter (PHPT), AMAYA-BURNS, Alba (Duke U & Duke Kunshan U), and BURNS, Allan (UF) Ebola: Applied Social Science. Exponential increase of the Ebola epidemic has potential to become the biggest health and socio-economic disaster since the 1918 flu, and poses challenges-opportunities to social sciences applied to public health and biomedicine.   Country expertise should be combined with comparative and historical applied medical anthropology insights.  Current responses often fail to integrate lessons learned from HIV/AIDS, SARS, Bird flu and Ebola relevant to international interventions, public health, health education and community responses, and anticipation of Ebola’s demographic, socioeconomic consequences.  Because the epidemic, research and interventions are changing so rapidly, makeup of the panel and details of topics covered will be provided shortly before the meeting.  We will suggest forming an SfAA Ebola interest group

 

Session took place in Pittsburgh, PA at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2015.