Mpox Articles from IPPO

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   What Went Wrong and Right During Mpox? Activists Share Their Insights at First Roundtable of ESRC IPPO Mpox Project

   December 16, 2022

   • activism

   • Mpox

   • public health

   • roundtable report

   • third sector

   Knowing and Evidencing Mpox: A Rapid Policy-Focused Study of Community Organising, Communication, and Vaccine Engagements is an ESRC-funded project investigating the recent Mpox outbreak.  The project sees the International Public Policy Observatory at UCL collaborating with colleagues from the Universities of Edinburgh, Bristol, and Manchester, and the UK Health Security Agency to fill previously-identified social science research gaps related to the outbreak. In December 2022, the project began its primary data collection phase by hosting the first of our professionally-facilitated “deliverative fora” roundtable discussions for those affected by the outbreak.  Our first roundtable focused on...

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   The 2022 monkeypox outbreak: considerations for public policy and social science research

   September 6, 2022

   • Mpox

   Social science questions related to Monkeypox can be addressed through both the synthesis of contextually relevant knowledge, as well as the conducting of new, primary research.  In order to facilitate a discussion and to encourage future work to be useful for policymakers, the International Public Policy Observatory, in collaboration with the Economic and Social Research Council, convened an online roundtable on the 10th August 2022, and conducted 1-2-1 interviews with experts in the field. Participants came from both within and outside the social sciences.  They included epidemiologists and behavioural scientists who are...

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