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Author: Paul Richards

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Paul Richards

Paul Richards is an anthropologist with experience of living and working in West Africa over several decades. He is a professor at Njala University in Sierra Leone. He is author of Ebola: How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic (2016).

  • COVID-19Debating IdeasPublic Health
    By Paul Richards
    November 26, 2021
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    Social Unrest and Vaccine Hubris in Europe: What Should Africa Conclude?

    The anti-vax global campaign, lessons for the world.
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  • AnthropologyCOVID-19Covid-19Debating IdeasPublic HealthSocial PolicyTexts and Contexts
    By Paul Richards
    June 1, 2020
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    Epidemics and Social Observation: Why Africa Needs a Different Approach to Covid-19

    Why haven’t social factors been more thoroughly scrutinised in the huge upsurge of scientific effort to combat Covid-19?
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  • COVID-19Debating IdeasResponse Piece
    By Paul Richards
    April 2, 2020
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    Response Piece by Paul Richards to Alex de Waal’s: ‘Can There Be A Democratic Public Health?’

    Response Piece by Paul Richards to Alex de Waal's piece; Can There Be A Democratic Public Health?
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  • Covid-19Debating IdeasPublic Health
    By Paul Richards
    March 30, 2020
    3155
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    Preparing for Covid-19 in Africa

    Preparing for Covid-19 in Africa
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  • Covid-19Debating IdeasPublic Health
    By Paul Richards
    March 17, 2020
    6440
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    What Might Africa Teach the World? Covid-19 and Ebola Virus Disease Compared

    What might Africa teach the world? Covid-19 and Ebola Virus Disease compared
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  • Politics
    By Paul Richards
    May 19, 2016
    3886
    4

    How black bin bags and common sense helped end an epidemic, and what we can learn from it

    Rather than formal health systems, it was local common sense, allied to local ingenuity, that was crucial in ending Ebola. Is it time for a bottom-up ...
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