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Understanding the drivers of poor infection prevention control (IPC) practices in Kenyan health facilities: An interdisciplinary study (2025)
Journal Article
Brown, H., Odhiambo, A., Mwaki, A., Atieno, N., Ouda, R., & Ngere, I. (2025). Understanding the drivers of poor infection prevention control (IPC) practices in Kenyan health facilities: An interdisciplinary study. PLOS Global Public Health, 5(6), e0004404. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004404

Improving IPC practices in health facilities is a major concern for the global health community. This paper combines insights from rapid ethnographic research and epidemiological measures of IPC adherence undertaken in four health facilities of diffe... Read More about Understanding the drivers of poor infection prevention control (IPC) practices in Kenyan health facilities: An interdisciplinary study.

Does One Health need an ontological turn? (2025)
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Kaiser-Grolimund, A., Bukachi, S. A., Karuga, J., Kämpfen, L., Keck, F., Zinsstag, J., & Brown, H. (2025). Does One Health need an ontological turn?. Critical Public Health, 35(1), 2497358. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2025.2497358

One Health has gained global prominence in recent years. Alongside its emergence, there have been extensive social science critiques. In this contribution, we make the case for the value of recent theoretical discussions in the field of anthropology... Read More about Does One Health need an ontological turn?.

Human-animal entanglements in bushmeat trading in Sierra Leone: An ethnographic assessment of a potential zoonotic interface (2024)
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Jenkins, J., Lawundeh, W., Hanson, T., & Brown, H. (2024). Human-animal entanglements in bushmeat trading in Sierra Leone: An ethnographic assessment of a potential zoonotic interface. PLoS ONE, 19(3), e0298929. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298929

‘Bushmeat’ markets are often portrayed as chaotic spaces where exotic wild animals are sold. They are hypothesized to be important sites for zoonotic disease transmission, given the prolonged and intense nature of the cross-species encounters that oc... Read More about Human-animal entanglements in bushmeat trading in Sierra Leone: An ethnographic assessment of a potential zoonotic interface.

Advancing One Human-Environmental-Animal Health for Global Health Security: What does the evidence say? (2023)
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Zinsstag, J., Kaiser-Grolimund, A., Heitz-Tokpa, K., Sreedharan, R., Lubroth, J., Caya, F., Stone, M., Brown, H., Bonfoh, B., Dobell, E., Morgan, D., Homaira, N., Kock, R., Hattendorf, J., Crump, L., Mauti, S., del Rio Vilas, V., Saikat, S., Zumla, A., …de la Rocque, S. (2023). Advancing One Human-Environmental-Animal Health for Global Health Security: What does the evidence say?. The Lancet, 401(10376), 591-604. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2822%2901595-1

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic vividly illustrates that the emergence of a new lethal pathogen of probable animal origin in one part of the world affects public health everywhere. In this article, we review the contributions of human-animal-environmen... Read More about Advancing One Human-Environmental-Animal Health for Global Health Security: What does the evidence say?.

Key Considerations: Cross-Border Dynamics Between Uganda and Kenya in the Context of the Outbreak of Ebola, 2022 (2022)
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Lamarque, H., & Brown, H. (2022). Key Considerations: Cross-Border Dynamics Between Uganda and Kenya in the Context of the Outbreak of Ebola, 2022. https://doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2022.043

This brief summarises key considerations concerning cross-border dynamics between Uganda and Kenya in the context of the outbreak of Ebola (Sudan Virus Disease, SVD) in Uganda. It is part of a series focusing on at-risk border areas between Uganda an... Read More about Key Considerations: Cross-Border Dynamics Between Uganda and Kenya in the Context of the Outbreak of Ebola, 2022.

‘Ebola is a business’: an analysis of the atmosphere of mistrust in the tenth Ebola epidemic in the DRC (2022)
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Park, S.-J., Brown, H., Wema, K. M., Gobat, N., Borchert, M., Kalubi, J., Komanda, G., & Morisho, N. (2023). ‘Ebola is a business’: an analysis of the atmosphere of mistrust in the tenth Ebola epidemic in the DRC. Critical Public Health, 33(3), 297-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2022.2128990

This paper examines the atmosphere of mistrust that permeated the response to the tenth Ebola epidemic in Eastern DRC (2018–2020). The concept of an ‘atmosphere of mistrust’ that we develop in this article directs attention to the elusive-yet-pervasi... Read More about ‘Ebola is a business’: an analysis of the atmosphere of mistrust in the tenth Ebola epidemic in the DRC.

A mixed-methods investigation to understand and improve the scaled-up infection prevention and control in primary care health facilities during the Ebola virus disease epidemic in Sierra Leone (2021)
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Ho, L. S., Ratnayake, R., Ansumana, R., & Brown, H. (2021). A mixed-methods investigation to understand and improve the scaled-up infection prevention and control in primary care health facilities during the Ebola virus disease epidemic in Sierra Leone. BMC Public Health, 21(1), 1603. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11634-7

Background: The 2014–2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa became a humanitarian crisis that exposed significant gaps in infection prevention and control (IPC) capacity in primary care facilities in Sierra Leone. Operational partners recognized the nati... Read More about A mixed-methods investigation to understand and improve the scaled-up infection prevention and control in primary care health facilities during the Ebola virus disease epidemic in Sierra Leone.

Experiences of first-generation scholars at a highly selective UK university (2021)
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Hindle, C., McEwan, C., Boliver, V., Maclarnon, A., Simpson, B., & Brown, H. (2021). Experiences of first-generation scholars at a highly selective UK university. Learning and Teaching, 14(2), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2021.140202

Targets set by the UK Office for Students require highly academically selective UK universities to enrol a greater percentage of students identified as least likely to participate in higher education. Such students are typically at a disadvantage in... Read More about Experiences of first-generation scholars at a highly selective UK university.

Ebola separations: trust, crisis, and ‘social distancing’ in West Africa (2020)
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Brown, H., & Marí Sáez, A. (2021). Ebola separations: trust, crisis, and ‘social distancing’ in West Africa. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 27(1), 9-29. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13426

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa involved the introduction of new forms of social and physical separation that aimed to curtail the spread of the disease. People changed the ways they lived to avoid contact with those who might be sick. A suite of g... Read More about Ebola separations: trust, crisis, and ‘social distancing’ in West Africa.

Domestic labor as care and growth in western Kenya (2020)
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Brown, H. (2020). Domestic labor as care and growth in western Kenya. Anthropology and Humanism, 45(2), 245-254. https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12304

Sociological and feminist explorations have tended to see domestic labor as feminized care work linked to the “private” realm of the home. This article explores domestic labor in western Kenya, describing such work as a reproductive and economic proj... Read More about Domestic labor as care and growth in western Kenya.

Introduction: Human Animal Health in Medical Anthropology (2019)
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Brown, H., & Nading, A. (2019). Introduction: Human Animal Health in Medical Anthropology. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 331(1), 5-23. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12488

This introductory article maps out the parameters of an emerging field of medical anthropology, human animal health, and its potential for reorienting the discipline. Ethnographic explorations of how animals are implicated in health, well‐being, and... Read More about Introduction: Human Animal Health in Medical Anthropology.

Unintended Consequences of the 'Bushmeat Ban' in West Africa During the 2013-2016 Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic (2018)
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Bonwitt, J., Dawson, M., Kaneh, M., Ansumana, R., Sah, F., Brown, H., & Kelly, A. H. (2018). Unintended Consequences of the 'Bushmeat Ban' in West Africa During the 2013-2016 Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic. Social Science & Medicine, 200, 166-173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.12.028

Following the 2013–2016 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa, governments across the region imposed a ban on the hunting and consumption of meat from wild animals. This injunction was accompanied by public health messages emphasising... Read More about Unintended Consequences of the 'Bushmeat Ban' in West Africa During the 2013-2016 Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic.