Location: Brighton, United Kingdom; Khartoum, Sudan; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Kigali, Rwanda
Type of event: Announcement / news
Description: We will be launching The Social Sciences for Severe Stigmatising Skin Conditions (5-S) Foundation funded by the National Insitute for Health Research in the UK. The programme is a £3.5 million collaborative research partnership between Brighton and Sussex Medical School and the Mycetoma Research Centre in Sudan, the Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) based at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia and the University of Rwanda.
Our vision is a Foundation that will end neglect of three conditions (podoconiosis, mycetoma and scabies) through bringing the social sciences to bear on these conditions. Social Science research around NTDs is essential if key biomedical advances are to be successfully translated into elimination and control programmes, and our research will transform the health and wellbeing of people affected by these conditions by identifying interventions informed by social science perspectives at the level of the patient, the community and national and international policy.
For more information: @5SFoundation
