Kelley Sams
Biographic Data
| ID | 104338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelley Sams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelley |
| FAMILY NAME | Sams |
| SIGNATURE | SAMS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7315-4818 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pandemic futures, future preparedness: Diverse views in the wake of Covid-19
The deliberations for the Pandemic Accord have opened an important moment of reflection on future approaches to pandemic preparedness. The concept had been increasingly prominent in global health discourse for several years before the pandemic and had concretised into a set of standardised mainstream approaches to the prediction of threats. Since 2019, the authors and the wider research team have led a research project on the meanings and practic…
Uncertainties beyond preparedness: Covid-19 vaccination in Senegal
Vaccination is one of the most recognised strategies in public health for preventing the spread of epidemics, and the availability of a vaccine is often expected by health actors to be a ‘game-changer’. However, the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) vaccine in Senegal was not the magic bullet that the international community expected. A very low vaccination coverage rate (less than 10% by April 2023) was observed in this country, once considere…
The illicit cigarette market in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): Findings from a cross-sectional study of empty cigarette packs
This study aimed to estimate the proportion of cigarettes consumed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that are illicit and the extent of cigarette tax evasion; and to identify the origins of and factors associated with illicit cigarettes. Data were collected from May 15 to June 9, 2023. Stratified, multistage sampling was used to select 32 health areas from which empty cigarette packs were collected. Each collected pack was examined an…
From uncertainty to the experience of collective care: Immersion in a hospital Covid-19 unit during the ‘first wave’ of the epidemic in Marseille, France
Social and psychological risks are weighed against biological risks and addressed by healthcare workers responding to health crises. This article examines the transformation of biosecurity protocols in one hospital in Marseille, France as the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and how they were adapted to meet changing needs. Based on ethnographic methods that included active observation alongside caregivers, nurses, and medical doctors during th…
Global narratives on unequal outcomes produced by lockdown in Africa: A social science perspective on the “one-size-fits all” Covid-19 response
Introduction: Lockdown measures were introduced worldwide to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and several studies showed the positive impacts of these policies in places such as China and Europe. Many African governments also imposed lockdowns at the beginning of the pandemic. These lockdowns met with mixed reactions; some were positive, but others focused on concerns about the consequences of lockdowns. Methods: In this article, we use social lis…
Des marchés pharmaceutiques en mutation dans les Suds: Entre régulations locales et globales
Depuis soixante ans, les marchés pharmaceutiques ont connu de profonds bouleversements : la construction dans la période post-coloniale d’une industrie pharmaceutique dans les Suds ; les nouvelles trajectoires marchandes Sud-Sud dans les années 1970 ; puis, dans les années 2000, l’émergence de la Global Health et le déploiement de ses marchés de « donateurs globaux ». Une hiérarchie nouvelle et une compétition accrue entre médicaments nord-améric…
Negotiating Intersecting Precarities: Covid-19, Pandemic Preparedness and Response in Africa
This article shares findings on COVID-19 in Africa across 2020 to examine concepts and practices of epidemic preparedness and response. Amidst uncertainties about the trajectory of COVID-19, the stages of emergency response emerge in practice as interconnected. We illustrate how complex dynamics manifest as diverse actors interpret and modify approaches according to contexts and experiences. We suggest that the concept of "intersecting precaritie…
Vaccine anxieties, vaccine preparedness: Perspectives from Africa in a Covid-19 era
Global debates about vaccines as a key element of pandemic response and future preparedness in the era of Covid-19 currently focus on questions of supply, with attention to global injustice in vaccine distribution and African countries as rightful beneficiaries of international de-regulation and financing initiatives such as COVAX. At the same time, vaccine demand and uptake are seen to be threatened by hesitancy, often attributed to an increasin…
Disease X and Africa: How a Scientific Metaphor Entered Popular Imaginaries of the Online Public During the Covid-19 Pandemic
In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the addition of Disease X, a hypothetical infectious threat, to its blueprint list of priority diseases. In the construction of discourse that circulated following this announcement, conceptions of Disease X intersected with representations of Africa. In our article, we share a broad strokes analysis of internet narratives about Disease X and Africa in the six months before the onset of the C…
But Not Gagged: Responding to Covid‐19 and its control measures in France, Italy and the USA
The beginning of the Covid‐19 pandemic was far from the ‘great equalizer’ sometimes described by the media. This article shares themes emerging from research conducted in 2020 in France, Italy and the USA concerning responses to the pandemic and its social effects. The authors analyze how the pandemic elicited varied reactions within the three countries where they conducted anthropological fieldwork. They propose that narratives of the Covid‐19 r…
No country for young girls
They'll inject you and you'll die: From medication non-compliance to acceptance in Guinea's Ebola treatment units
During the 2013-2016 West African Ebola epidemic, medical emergency response teams negotiated a context marked by public hysteria and fear to prevent the spread of the virus and treat those already infected. However, the presence and work of Ebola response teams added to suspicions provoked by the rapid increase in numbers of dead and dying and by locally unintelligible emergency measures. Based on data collected from 40 young adult 'survivors' b…
Engaging conceptions of identity in a context of medical pluralism: Explaining treatment choices for everyday illness in Niger
This article uses ethnographic research to reflect upon how the treatment of 'everyday' illnesses in Niger engages concepts of social identity. Inspired by Bourdieu's concept of social distinction, as well as Appadurai's edited volume on the 'social lives' of 'things', I present an analysis of how medications are understood by their users in terms of social and ideological meaning in one rural Hausa village. Decisions about medication choice were…
A medicine for every sickness
Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission in resource-limited settings: Assessment of 99 Viramune Donation Programmes in 34 countries, 2000–2011
A drug donation program such as the VDP can act as a catalyst for systemic changes at the institutional and national levels. The VDP provides a model for how private initiatives can have a significant impact on public health issues and foster diverse public-private partnerships among governments, commercial organizations, local institutions, and international NGOs
Vaccine anxieties, vaccine preparedness: Perspectives from Africa in a Covid-19 era
Global debates about vaccines as a key element of pandemic response and future preparedness in the era of Covid-19 currently focus on questions of supply, with attention to global injustice in vaccine distribution and African countries as rightful beneficiaries of international de-regulation and financing initiatives such as COVAX. At the same time, vaccine demand and uptake are seen to be threatened by hesitancy, often attributed to an increasin…
Negotiating Intersecting Precarities: Covid-19, Pandemic Preparedness and Response in Africa
This article shares findings on COVID-19 in Africa across 2020 to examine concepts and practices of epidemic preparedness and response. Amidst uncertainties about the trajectory of COVID-19, the stages of emergency response emerge in practice as interconnected. We illustrate how complex dynamics manifest as diverse actors interpret and modify approaches according to contexts and experiences. We suggest that the concept of "intersecting precaritie…
They'll inject you and you'll die: From medication non-compliance to acceptance in Guinea's Ebola treatment units
During the 2013-2016 West African Ebola epidemic, medical emergency response teams negotiated a context marked by public hysteria and fear to prevent the spread of the virus and treat those already infected. However, the presence and work of Ebola response teams added to suspicions provoked by the rapid increase in numbers of dead and dying and by locally unintelligible emergency measures. Based on data collected from 40 young adult 'survivors' b…
But Not Gagged: Responding to Covid‐19 and its control measures in France, Italy and the USA
The beginning of the Covid‐19 pandemic was far from the ‘great equalizer’ sometimes described by the media. This article shares themes emerging from research conducted in 2020 in France, Italy and the USA concerning responses to the pandemic and its social effects. The authors analyze how the pandemic elicited varied reactions within the three countries where they conducted anthropological fieldwork. They propose that narratives of the Covid‐19 r…
Engaging conceptions of identity in a context of medical pluralism: Explaining treatment choices for everyday illness in Niger
This article uses ethnographic research to reflect upon how the treatment of 'everyday' illnesses in Niger engages concepts of social identity. Inspired by Bourdieu's concept of social distinction, as well as Appadurai's edited volume on the 'social lives' of 'things', I present an analysis of how medications are understood by their users in terms of social and ideological meaning in one rural Hausa village. Decisions about medication choice were…
Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission in resource-limited settings: Assessment of 99 Viramune Donation Programmes in 34 countries, 2000–2011
A drug donation program such as the VDP can act as a catalyst for systemic changes at the institutional and national levels. The VDP provides a model for how private initiatives can have a significant impact on public health issues and foster diverse public-private partnerships among governments, commercial organizations, local institutions, and international NGOs
A medicine for every sickness
Engaging conceptions of identity in a context of medical pluralism: Explaining treatment choices for everyday illness in Niger
This article uses ethnographic research to reflect upon how the treatment of 'everyday' illnesses in Niger engages concepts of social identity. Inspired by Bourdieu's concept of social distinction, as well as Appadurai's edited volume on the 'social lives' of 'things', I present an analysis of how medications are understood by their users in terms of social and ideological meaning in one rural Hausa village. Decisions about medication choice were…
No country for young girls
They'll inject you and you'll die: From medication non-compliance to acceptance in Guinea's Ebola treatment units
During the 2013-2016 West African Ebola epidemic, medical emergency response teams negotiated a context marked by public hysteria and fear to prevent the spread of the virus and treat those already infected. However, the presence and work of Ebola response teams added to suspicions provoked by the rapid increase in numbers of dead and dying and by locally unintelligible emergency measures. Based on data collected from 40 young adult 'survivors' b…
But Not Gagged: Responding to Covid‐19 and its control measures in France, Italy and the USA
The beginning of the Covid‐19 pandemic was far from the ‘great equalizer’ sometimes described by the media. This article shares themes emerging from research conducted in 2020 in France, Italy and the USA concerning responses to the pandemic and its social effects. The authors analyze how the pandemic elicited varied reactions within the three countries where they conducted anthropological fieldwork. They propose that narratives of the Covid‐19 r…
Des marchés pharmaceutiques en mutation dans les Suds: Entre régulations locales et globales
Depuis soixante ans, les marchés pharmaceutiques ont connu de profonds bouleversements : la construction dans la période post-coloniale d’une industrie pharmaceutique dans les Suds ; les nouvelles trajectoires marchandes Sud-Sud dans les années 1970 ; puis, dans les années 2000, l’émergence de la Global Health et le déploiement de ses marchés de « donateurs globaux ». Une hiérarchie nouvelle et une compétition accrue entre médicaments nord-améric…
Negotiating Intersecting Precarities: Covid-19, Pandemic Preparedness and Response in Africa
This article shares findings on COVID-19 in Africa across 2020 to examine concepts and practices of epidemic preparedness and response. Amidst uncertainties about the trajectory of COVID-19, the stages of emergency response emerge in practice as interconnected. We illustrate how complex dynamics manifest as diverse actors interpret and modify approaches according to contexts and experiences. We suggest that the concept of "intersecting precaritie…
Vaccine anxieties, vaccine preparedness: Perspectives from Africa in a Covid-19 era
Global debates about vaccines as a key element of pandemic response and future preparedness in the era of Covid-19 currently focus on questions of supply, with attention to global injustice in vaccine distribution and African countries as rightful beneficiaries of international de-regulation and financing initiatives such as COVAX. At the same time, vaccine demand and uptake are seen to be threatened by hesitancy, often attributed to an increasin…
Disease X and Africa: How a Scientific Metaphor Entered Popular Imaginaries of the Online Public During the Covid-19 Pandemic
In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the addition of Disease X, a hypothetical infectious threat, to its blueprint list of priority diseases. In the construction of discourse that circulated following this announcement, conceptions of Disease X intersected with representations of Africa. In our article, we share a broad strokes analysis of internet narratives about Disease X and Africa in the six months before the onset of the C…
From uncertainty to the experience of collective care: Immersion in a hospital Covid-19 unit during the ‘first wave’ of the epidemic in Marseille, France
Social and psychological risks are weighed against biological risks and addressed by healthcare workers responding to health crises. This article examines the transformation of biosecurity protocols in one hospital in Marseille, France as the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and how they were adapted to meet changing needs. Based on ethnographic methods that included active observation alongside caregivers, nurses, and medical doctors during th…
Global narratives on unequal outcomes produced by lockdown in Africa: A social science perspective on the “one-size-fits all” Covid-19 response
Introduction: Lockdown measures were introduced worldwide to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and several studies showed the positive impacts of these policies in places such as China and Europe. Many African governments also imposed lockdowns at the beginning of the pandemic. These lockdowns met with mixed reactions; some were positive, but others focused on concerns about the consequences of lockdowns. Methods: In this article, we use social lis…
The illicit cigarette market in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): Findings from a cross-sectional study of empty cigarette packs
This study aimed to estimate the proportion of cigarettes consumed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that are illicit and the extent of cigarette tax evasion; and to identify the origins of and factors associated with illicit cigarettes. Data were collected from May 15 to June 9, 2023. Stratified, multistage sampling was used to select 32 health areas from which empty cigarette packs were collected. Each collected pack was examined an…
Pandemic futures, future preparedness: Diverse views in the wake of Covid-19
The deliberations for the Pandemic Accord have opened an important moment of reflection on future approaches to pandemic preparedness. The concept had been increasingly prominent in global health discourse for several years before the pandemic and had concretised into a set of standardised mainstream approaches to the prediction of threats. Since 2019, the authors and the wider research team have led a research project on the meanings and practic…
Uncertainties beyond preparedness: Covid-19 vaccination in Senegal
Vaccination is one of the most recognised strategies in public health for preventing the spread of epidemics, and the availability of a vaccine is often expected by health actors to be a ‘game-changer’. However, the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) vaccine in Senegal was not the magic bullet that the international community expected. A very low vaccination coverage rate (less than 10% by April 2023) was observed in this country, once considere…
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