Daniel H De Vries
Biographic Data
| ID | 630464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel H De Vries |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel H |
| FAMILY NAME | De Vries |
| SIGNATURE | DE VRIES D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7455-0628 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The role of social sciences in humanitarian action
This article explores the evolving role of social sciences in humanitarian action, focusing on its potential for community engagement, and how this can aid capacity building and localization efforts that might lead toward decolonisation. Drawing on interviews and group discussions with humanitarian practitioners internationally, it examines both the promise and the challenges of integrating social sciences into emergency responses. While valued f…
Behavioural science policy advice-making during Covid-19
Introduction: Effective pandemic response requires large-scale behavioural change. Despite efforts to integrate behavioural science advice in public health policy making, there is a shortage of empirical evidence on the challenges faced by countries that want to professionalise their behavioural science advisory capacity. As senior behavioural science advisers during the COVID-19 pandemic, we explored and compared how behavioural science organise…
Community resilience to health emergencies
BACKGROUND: There is recognition of the importance of community resilience in mitigating long-term effects of health emergencies on communities. To guide policy and practice, conceptual clarity is needed on what community resilience involves and how it can be operationalised for community protection in ways that empower and strengthen local agency. OBJECTIVES: To identify the core components of community resilience to health emergencies using a s…
Gathering data on expert advice-making during public health emergencies – methodological lessons from a qualitative consultative process approach
This paper discusses the methodological lessons learned from applying an innovative Consultative Process Approach to investigate the use of evidence in concrete advice-making processes across various European national health agencies. The methodological approach employs a sequential research design combining two components: a core consultative workshop with participation of key actors involved in national advice-making processes, supplemented by …
I Do Take the Number Seriously, but I Don't Let My Moods Depend on It
For many people living with long COVID (PWLC), self-tracking has emerged as a valuable practice to monitor their illness. An examination of self-tracking practices can, therefore, shed light on the ways in which individuals navigate their care, make sense of their experiences and advocate for their needs. This study investigates how PWLC engage in self-tracking practices and how they utilise and negotiate the data generated. Based on 33 semi-stru…
People or Property
This open access book examines the use of relocation and resettlement processes in the USA as a means of responding to climate change
Why Communities Participate in Malaria Elimination Projects
The importance of community participation in malaria elimination efforts has been trumpeted in various studies; however, the reasons why communities participate are often under examined. We explored the underlying socio-cultural environment of marginalized communities in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia to ascertain why these groups participate in a malaria elimination project, through 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork, including in-depth interviews…
The Community Lab of Ideas for Health
Background: Community participation in global health interventions may improve outcomes and solve complex health issues. Although numerous community participatory approaches have been developed and introduced, there has been little focus on “how” and “who” to involve in the implementation of community-based clinical trials where unequal distribution of power between implementers and communities pre-exists. Addressing how to achieve community-base…
‘A low and watery place’
To address increasing flood risks and ensure flood management interventions are appropriate for local contexts, the English system of flood risk management strives for devolution of responsibilities to actors previously uninvolved in professional decision-making, and advocates for a comprehensive community engagement in flood management-related policy making and delivery. This paper explores the influence of local flood histories on community eng…
Public health preparedness and response synergies between institutional authorities and the community
A set of good practices emerged from this study, that could be applied in these and other settings. They included the potential value of conducting stakeholder analyses of community actors with a stake in tick-borne or other zoonotic diseases; of utilising pre-existing stakeholder networks for information dissemination; and of monitoring community perceptions of any public health incident, including through social media. Efforts in the two countr…
The impact of physical distancing on socially vulnerable people needing care during the Covid-19 pandemic in the Netherlands
What was the impact of physical distancing on socially vulnerable groups needing care during the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in the Netherlands? We conducted repeated qualitative interviews with 141 people in care relationships and 106 professionals, and two repeated surveys among older populations outside ( n = 1697) and inside long-term care facilities ( n = 2619). Findings show a diversity of experiences, ranging from relative calmness an…
Integrating the social sciences in epidemic preparedness and response
BACKGROUND: The importance of integrating the social sciences in epidemic preparedness and response has become a common feature of infectious disease policy and practice debates. However to date, this integration remains inadequate, fragmented and under-funded, with limited reach and small initial investments. Based on data collected prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, in this paper we analysed the variety of knowledge, infrastructure and funding gap…
Social networks for health communication in rural Uganda
To reach the most vulnerable individuals in under-resourced countries, health communication interventions increasingly move towards the community level. However, little is known about how health information spreads through local social networks. This paper maps the health information network of a rural trading centre in Uganda. As part of a five-year ethnographic study of sustainable community health resources, ego networks were obtained for 231 …
Framework for Participatory Quantitative Health Impact Assessment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The framework has several implications for research and practice. It underlines the importance of applying participatory approaches critically while providing a blueprint for methods to engage local stakeholders. Participatory approaches in quantitative HIAs are complex and demand a nuanced understanding of the context. Therefore, the political and cultural contexts in which HIA is conducted will define how the framework is applied. Finally, the …
Loneliness and Mental Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The consequences of long-term social isolation and well-being must be closely monitored
Beyond solidarity and mutual aid
Drawing from ethnographic data collected between 2012 and 2014 and January and June 2018 in Luwero district, Uganda, this article questions the romanticised depiction of burial groups as a means of enhancing social support, a sense of solidarity and mutual aid. We found that the felt sense of identity and belonging for members is not shared across community members, and that solidary relations between members and non-group members in the communit…
Surprise ecologies
When hazards, such as floods, are collectively experienced as "surprising", this heightens the shock experience and likelihood of disaster, and exacerbates its impact. I outline how such collective surprises can be seen as the outcome of a dynamic condition of vulnerability that revolves around how humans construct expectations about future risks. This "temporal vulnerability" is determined largely by the experience of dynamic processes through t…
Crisis Discourse in Human Resources for Health
Since the 1960s, a persistent shortage of health workers has led professionals managing Human Resources for Health (HRH) to frame their field as in “crisis.” Since the HIV/AIDS epidemic, this discourse has coincided with a general securitization of global health. I explore the extent to which crisis discourse in HRH potentially signifies securitization of HRH using a narrative review of 153 articles from the PubMed database and a case study of a …
Collaboration between key populations in a global partnership for health and human rights
Because HIV and AIDS key populations share common social-cultural factors challenging their sexual health and rights (e.g. stigma, criminalisation), there is an assumed benefit of collaborative programmes where various key populations work in solidarity. In this paper, we reflect on how partners collaborated in a complex alliance of over 100 different NGOs, representing and supporting three key populations - lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender…
Temporal Vulnerability and the Post-Disaster ‘Window of Opportunity to Woo
After major flooding associated with Hurricane Floyd (1999) in North Carolina, mitigation managers seized upon the "window of opportunity" to woo residents to accept residential buyout offers despite sizable community resistance. I present a theoretical explanation of how post-crisis periods turn into "opportunities" based on a temporal referential theory that complements alternative explanations based on temporal coincidence, panarchy, and shock…
Historical waterscape trajectories that need care
In 1999 Hurricane Floyd pummeled the eastern portion of North Carolina (NC, U.S.A.), and in its wake many localities participated in federal home acquisition-relocation programs in flood-prone areas, with shared and devolved governance. This article reports on one such program that was conducted in the City of Kinston, where a historical African-American neighborhood called Lincoln City was badly flooded by water containing raw sewage from a comp…
The first mile
Given the available anthropological knowledge of a previous outbreak in Northern Uganda, it is surprising that so little serious effort was made this time round to take local sensibilities and culture into account. The "first mile" problem is not only a question of using local resources for early detection, but also of making use of the contextual cultural knowledge that has already been collected and is readily available. Despite remarkable tech…
Repetitive flood victims and acceptance of Fema mitigation offers
Of all natural disasters, flooding causes the greatest amount of economic and social damage. The United States' Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) uses a number of hazard mitigation grant programmes for flood victims, including mitigation offers to relocate permanently repetitive flood loss victims. This study examines factors that help to explain the degree of difficulty repetitive flood loss victims experience when they make decisions a…
Temporal vulnerability in hazardscapes
Livestock Acquisitions Dynamics in Nomadic Pastoralist Herd Demography
Loneliness and Mental Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The consequences of long-term social isolation and well-being must be closely monitored
Repetitive flood victims and acceptance of Fema mitigation offers
Of all natural disasters, flooding causes the greatest amount of economic and social damage. The United States' Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) uses a number of hazard mitigation grant programmes for flood victims, including mitigation offers to relocate permanently repetitive flood loss victims. This study examines factors that help to explain the degree of difficulty repetitive flood loss victims experience when they make decisions a…
Livestock Acquisitions Dynamics in Nomadic Pastoralist Herd Demography
The impact of physical distancing on socially vulnerable people needing care during the Covid-19 pandemic in the Netherlands
What was the impact of physical distancing on socially vulnerable groups needing care during the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in the Netherlands? We conducted repeated qualitative interviews with 141 people in care relationships and 106 professionals, and two repeated surveys among older populations outside ( n = 1697) and inside long-term care facilities ( n = 2619). Findings show a diversity of experiences, ranging from relative calmness an…
Temporal vulnerability in hazardscapes
Drawing the Repertoire of Collective Action
(2002). Drawing the Repertoire of Collective Action: Labour Zionism and Strikes in 1920s Palestine. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 93-122
Historical waterscape trajectories that need care
In 1999 Hurricane Floyd pummeled the eastern portion of North Carolina (NC, U.S.A.), and in its wake many localities participated in federal home acquisition-relocation programs in flood-prone areas, with shared and devolved governance. This article reports on one such program that was conducted in the City of Kinston, where a historical African-American neighborhood called Lincoln City was badly flooded by water containing raw sewage from a comp…
Drawing the Repertoire of Collective Action
(2002). Drawing the Repertoire of Collective Action: Labour Zionism and Strikes in 1920s Palestine. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 93-122
Livestock Acquisitions Dynamics in Nomadic Pastoralist Herd Demography
Temporal vulnerability in hazardscapes
Repetitive flood victims and acceptance of Fema mitigation offers
Of all natural disasters, flooding causes the greatest amount of economic and social damage. The United States' Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) uses a number of hazard mitigation grant programmes for flood victims, including mitigation offers to relocate permanently repetitive flood loss victims. This study examines factors that help to explain the degree of difficulty repetitive flood loss victims experience when they make decisions a…
The first mile
Given the available anthropological knowledge of a previous outbreak in Northern Uganda, it is surprising that so little serious effort was made this time round to take local sensibilities and culture into account. The "first mile" problem is not only a question of using local resources for early detection, but also of making use of the contextual cultural knowledge that has already been collected and is readily available. Despite remarkable tech…
Temporal Vulnerability and the Post-Disaster ‘Window of Opportunity to Woo
After major flooding associated with Hurricane Floyd (1999) in North Carolina, mitigation managers seized upon the "window of opportunity" to woo residents to accept residential buyout offers despite sizable community resistance. I present a theoretical explanation of how post-crisis periods turn into "opportunities" based on a temporal referential theory that complements alternative explanations based on temporal coincidence, panarchy, and shock…
Historical waterscape trajectories that need care
In 1999 Hurricane Floyd pummeled the eastern portion of North Carolina (NC, U.S.A.), and in its wake many localities participated in federal home acquisition-relocation programs in flood-prone areas, with shared and devolved governance. This article reports on one such program that was conducted in the City of Kinston, where a historical African-American neighborhood called Lincoln City was badly flooded by water containing raw sewage from a comp…
Crisis Discourse in Human Resources for Health
Since the 1960s, a persistent shortage of health workers has led professionals managing Human Resources for Health (HRH) to frame their field as in “crisis.” Since the HIV/AIDS epidemic, this discourse has coincided with a general securitization of global health. I explore the extent to which crisis discourse in HRH potentially signifies securitization of HRH using a narrative review of 153 articles from the PubMed database and a case study of a …
Collaboration between key populations in a global partnership for health and human rights
Because HIV and AIDS key populations share common social-cultural factors challenging their sexual health and rights (e.g. stigma, criminalisation), there is an assumed benefit of collaborative programmes where various key populations work in solidarity. In this paper, we reflect on how partners collaborated in a complex alliance of over 100 different NGOs, representing and supporting three key populations - lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender…
Surprise ecologies
When hazards, such as floods, are collectively experienced as "surprising", this heightens the shock experience and likelihood of disaster, and exacerbates its impact. I outline how such collective surprises can be seen as the outcome of a dynamic condition of vulnerability that revolves around how humans construct expectations about future risks. This "temporal vulnerability" is determined largely by the experience of dynamic processes through t…
Integrating the social sciences in epidemic preparedness and response
BACKGROUND: The importance of integrating the social sciences in epidemic preparedness and response has become a common feature of infectious disease policy and practice debates. However to date, this integration remains inadequate, fragmented and under-funded, with limited reach and small initial investments. Based on data collected prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, in this paper we analysed the variety of knowledge, infrastructure and funding gap…
Social networks for health communication in rural Uganda
To reach the most vulnerable individuals in under-resourced countries, health communication interventions increasingly move towards the community level. However, little is known about how health information spreads through local social networks. This paper maps the health information network of a rural trading centre in Uganda. As part of a five-year ethnographic study of sustainable community health resources, ego networks were obtained for 231 …
Framework for Participatory Quantitative Health Impact Assessment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The framework has several implications for research and practice. It underlines the importance of applying participatory approaches critically while providing a blueprint for methods to engage local stakeholders. Participatory approaches in quantitative HIAs are complex and demand a nuanced understanding of the context. Therefore, the political and cultural contexts in which HIA is conducted will define how the framework is applied. Finally, the …
Loneliness and Mental Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The consequences of long-term social isolation and well-being must be closely monitored
Beyond solidarity and mutual aid
Drawing from ethnographic data collected between 2012 and 2014 and January and June 2018 in Luwero district, Uganda, this article questions the romanticised depiction of burial groups as a means of enhancing social support, a sense of solidarity and mutual aid. We found that the felt sense of identity and belonging for members is not shared across community members, and that solidary relations between members and non-group members in the communit…
The Community Lab of Ideas for Health
Background: Community participation in global health interventions may improve outcomes and solve complex health issues. Although numerous community participatory approaches have been developed and introduced, there has been little focus on “how” and “who” to involve in the implementation of community-based clinical trials where unequal distribution of power between implementers and communities pre-exists. Addressing how to achieve community-base…
‘A low and watery place’
To address increasing flood risks and ensure flood management interventions are appropriate for local contexts, the English system of flood risk management strives for devolution of responsibilities to actors previously uninvolved in professional decision-making, and advocates for a comprehensive community engagement in flood management-related policy making and delivery. This paper explores the influence of local flood histories on community eng…
Public health preparedness and response synergies between institutional authorities and the community
A set of good practices emerged from this study, that could be applied in these and other settings. They included the potential value of conducting stakeholder analyses of community actors with a stake in tick-borne or other zoonotic diseases; of utilising pre-existing stakeholder networks for information dissemination; and of monitoring community perceptions of any public health incident, including through social media. Efforts in the two countr…
The impact of physical distancing on socially vulnerable people needing care during the Covid-19 pandemic in the Netherlands
What was the impact of physical distancing on socially vulnerable groups needing care during the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in the Netherlands? We conducted repeated qualitative interviews with 141 people in care relationships and 106 professionals, and two repeated surveys among older populations outside ( n = 1697) and inside long-term care facilities ( n = 2619). Findings show a diversity of experiences, ranging from relative calmness an…
Why Communities Participate in Malaria Elimination Projects
The importance of community participation in malaria elimination efforts has been trumpeted in various studies; however, the reasons why communities participate are often under examined. We explored the underlying socio-cultural environment of marginalized communities in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia to ascertain why these groups participate in a malaria elimination project, through 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork, including in-depth interviews…
People or Property
This open access book examines the use of relocation and resettlement processes in the USA as a means of responding to climate change
Community resilience to health emergencies
BACKGROUND: There is recognition of the importance of community resilience in mitigating long-term effects of health emergencies on communities. To guide policy and practice, conceptual clarity is needed on what community resilience involves and how it can be operationalised for community protection in ways that empower and strengthen local agency. OBJECTIVES: To identify the core components of community resilience to health emergencies using a s…
Gathering data on expert advice-making during public health emergencies – methodological lessons from a qualitative consultative process approach
This paper discusses the methodological lessons learned from applying an innovative Consultative Process Approach to investigate the use of evidence in concrete advice-making processes across various European national health agencies. The methodological approach employs a sequential research design combining two components: a core consultative workshop with participation of key actors involved in national advice-making processes, supplemented by …
I Do Take the Number Seriously, but I Don't Let My Moods Depend on It
For many people living with long COVID (PWLC), self-tracking has emerged as a valuable practice to monitor their illness. An examination of self-tracking practices can, therefore, shed light on the ways in which individuals navigate their care, make sense of their experiences and advocate for their needs. This study investigates how PWLC engage in self-tracking practices and how they utilise and negotiate the data generated. Based on 33 semi-stru…
The role of social sciences in humanitarian action
This article explores the evolving role of social sciences in humanitarian action, focusing on its potential for community engagement, and how this can aid capacity building and localization efforts that might lead toward decolonisation. Drawing on interviews and group discussions with humanitarian practitioners internationally, it examines both the promise and the challenges of integrating social sciences into emergency responses. While valued f…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Nursing (9 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Public health (8 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works)