Ebola

With funding from the Medical Research Council (MRC), Professor Mayhew and the team from LSHTM found local responses to the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone needed more rapid coordination with local frontline responders, yet subsequent pandemic responses show that humanitarian and outbreak responses have been slow to change.

With the Changing Policy and Practice funding, Professor Mayhew and the team will produce a range of dissemination materials including short films of successful community-led responses; a policy brief summarising key findings and implications for policy; and a “How To” guide for ministries and agencies to re-design crisis-response.

These will be presented, debated and validated at a workshop bringing local wisdom and voices into dialogue with key decision makers. The team will widely disseminate the finalised briefs and guides and provide ongoing support to workshop participants to facilitate policy and practice change.