Dr Kevin Bardosh | Why mandates, passports and restrictions may cause more harm than good

Dr Kevin Bardosh is a medical anthropologist whose work focuses on using social science and community engagement to improve public health delivery and policy. Most of his work, across more than 20 countries, has concentrated on the epidemiology and control of human, animal and vector-borne infectious disease.

He is currently an affiliate assistant Professor with the School of Public Health, at the University of Washington; an honorary lecturer at Edinburgh Medical School; and a Research Associate, at the School of Global Urban and Social Studies within the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Kevin has authored multiple peer reviewed publications, has edited two books, “one health” and “locating Zika” and is also Associate Editor of the journal Frontiers in Tropical Diseases.

Prior to the events of 2020, he worked on emergency response programmes for Zika in Latin America as well as Ebola in West Africa. In 2019, he led the development of a framework to assist global health funders in better integrating social science in epidemic response.

Read Dr Bardosh's paper: https://gh.bmj.com/content/7/5/e008684

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