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A Preventable Epidemic: The Ebola Outbreak and Failures of Governance in We...

Mar

22

A Preventable Epidemic: The Ebola Outbreak and Failures of Governance in We...

by Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa

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Thu, 22 March 2018

18:30 – 20:00 GMT

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Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, Aldwych

London School of Economics and Political Science

Houghton Street

London

WC2A 2AE

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Date: Thursday 22 March 2018
Time: 6:30- 8:00 pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre
Speaker (s): Ismai Rashid Ibrahim Abdullah
Chair: Jonah Lipton



From 2013 to 2015, over eleven thousand people across West Africa lost their lives to the deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus in history. Crucially, this epidemic marked the first time the virus was able to spread beyond rural areas to major cities, infecting tens of thousands and overturning conventional assumptions about its epidemiology. Our panelists reflect on how a manageable disease outbreak became a major governance failure of public health systems at local, national and international levels.

Speakers bio:

Dr. Ismail Rashid is a Professor of history at Vassar College. His books include West Africa’s Security Challenges, The Paradoxes of History and Memory in Postcolonial Sierra Leone, and The West African Ebola Epidemic: Towards a Political Economy. He currently serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board of the African Peacebuilding Network of the Social Science Research Council.

Jonah Lipton is an anthropologist and research officer at the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa. His research looks at the intersections between African political economy, urban neighbourhood life, crisis, and humanitarianism, with a regional focus on Sierra Leone. His doctoral thesis, based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork immediately before and during the Ebola crisis, examines family life, work, and coming of age among young men in Freetown.

Luisa Enria is Lecturer in International Development at the University of Bath. Her research in Sierra Leone has focused on post-conflict reconstruction, electoral violence and the political dimensions of development and humanitarian intervention. During and after the Ebola outbreak she carried out research in Northern Sierra Leone on experiences of new encounters with biomedicine and emergency measures. Her current ESRC project entitled States of Emergency: Citizenship in Crisis in Sierra Leone studies the implications of the Ebola response for young peoples’ relationship with the state.


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