What questions we should be asking about COVID-19 in humanitarian settings: perspectives from the Social Sciences Analysis Cell in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Affiliations

¹ Public Health Emergencies, UNICEF, Geneva, Switzerland SCARTER@UNICEF.ORG.
² Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK.
³ Public Health Emergencies, UNICEF, New York, New York, USA.
⁴ Anthrologica, Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK.
⁵ Department of Public Health, Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium.
⁶ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁷ UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, Public Health England, London, UK.
⁸ Direction Générale de Lutte contre la Maladie/ Direction Surveillance Epidemiologique, Ministere de la Sante Publique, Kinshasa, Congo (the Democratic Republic of the).
⁹ Departement de Virologie, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Congo (the Democratic Republic of the).

Simone E Carter et al. BMJ Glob Health. 2020 Sep.

. 2020 Sep;5(9):e003607.

doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003607.

¹ Public Health Emergencies, UNICEF, Geneva, Switzerland SCARTER@UNICEF.ORG.
² Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK.
³ Public Health Emergencies, UNICEF, New York, New York, USA.
⁴ Anthrologica, Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK.
⁵ Department of Public Health, Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium.
⁶ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁷ UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, Public Health England, London, UK.
⁸ Direction Générale de Lutte contre la Maladie/ Direction Surveillance Epidemiologique, Ministere de la Sante Publique, Kinshasa, Congo (the Democratic Republic of the).
⁹ Departement de Virologie, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Congo (the Democratic Republic of the).

No abstract available

Keywords: diseases; disorders; epidemiology; infections; injuries; intervention study; public health; study design.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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