Health crises, digital media and community voices: utilising interactive radio for rapid social research to improve outbreak preparedness and response
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| Description: | Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes, Dept. of Politics & International Studies, University of Cambridge and Senior Advisor for Research & Innovation, Africa's Voices Foundation |
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| Created: | 2018-12-14 12:21 | ||||
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Cambridge Language Sciences
Language Sciences Annual Symposium 2018 - Language Sciences and Health |
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| Publisher: | University of Cambridge | ||||
| Copyright: | Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes/Africa's Voices Foundation | ||||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||||
| Keywords: | Infectious Diseases; Natural Language Processing; Somalia; Cholera; Interactive radio; | ||||
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| Abstract: | n 2017 Somalia experienced the worst cholera outbreak in five years, with over 79,000 cases and over 1,100 deaths mainly among children under five years. This talk focuses on the methodology that Africa’s Voices Foundation employed to gather, label and analyse SMS data as a tool for understanding cholera risk and preparedness among communities in the South Central Zone of Somalia. |
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