Monica Schoch‐spana
Biographic Data
| ID | 116647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monica Schoch‐spana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monica |
| FAMILY NAME | Schoch‐spana |
| SIGNATURE | SPANA M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8397-8367 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Copewell all-hazards resilience model predicts Covid-19 outcomes
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an unprecedented challenge to public health and other community level systems throughout the United States since 2020. Investigating county-level factors (covariates in a statistical sense) closely related to COVID mortality is an important research objective, as it can provide insight for improving pandemic preparedness and response. Community resilience , which signifies the capability and capacity of communi…
Applying up
Studying up" was Laura Nader's provocation to anthropologists to scrutinize the actions of the powerful few in relation to the ordeals of the powerless many. Engaging this lineage, this article describes CommuniVax, a rapid ethnographic research coalition supporting an equitable COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the United States. By tapping hyperlocal knowledge as well as that held by public health and governmental authorities at higher reaches, the c…
Anthropology at speed, at scale, in action
This special issue presents accounts of different aspects of the CommuniVax Coalition and its work-a project that conducted rapid, multisited, applied anthropological research to deliver guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our purpose in writing these articles is to provide details of our work so anthropologists interested in similar types of research can learn from our efforts. While anthropological research has been, and largely still is, an…
Adapting rapid ethnographic research in an evolving emergency
To ensure the real-world utility of emergency ethnographic research, plans must evolve as circumstances shift. The CommuniVax coalition's work provides a case study of this scenario. Using rapid ethnographic interviews, focus groups, and other methods, the six local CommuniVax teams sought to comprehend and improve COVID-19 vaccine access and uptake. To this end, they responded nimbly to varying community priorities, the pandemic's shifting natur…
Modeling epidemic recovery
The SPARS Pandemic 2025-2028
Effective communication about medical countermeasures—including drugs, devices and biologics—is often critical in emergency situations. Such communication, however, does not just happen. It must be planned and prepared for. One mechanism to develop communication strategies is through the use of prospective scenarios, which allow readers the opportunity to rehearse responses while also weighing the implications of their actions. This article descr…
The Copewell Rubric
Measurement is a community endeavor that can enhance the ability to anticipate, withstand, and recover from a disaster, as well as foster learning and adaptation. This project's purpose was to develop a self-assessment toolkit-manifesting a bottom-up, participatory approach-that enables people to envision community resilience as a concrete, desirable, and obtainable goal; organize a cross-sector effort to evaluate and enhance factors that influen…
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Measurement to Enhance Community Resilience to Disasters
Disaster Resilience
The 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic Escape Community Digital Document Archive (review)
Reviewed by Monica Schoch-Spana Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Baltimore, Maryland The 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic Escape Community Digital Document Archive, The Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, http://www.med.umich.edu/medschool/chm/influenza/index.htm. "Escape communities" were those rare towns, institutions, and military posts that experienced few (if any) cases …
Safe Food
Book Review| October 01 2006 Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism. Marion Nestle. Monica Schoch-Spana Monica Schoch-Spana Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 470–472. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.4.470 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Monica Schoch-Spana; Safe Food: Bacteria…
Post-Katrina, Pre-Pandemic America
Bioterrorism
Bioterrorism
This analysis was prepared for the 'Bioterrorism: Historical contexts, long-term consequences' conference held at the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, on 8 May 2002. A revised version was presented at the panel 'A plagued future? Emerging diseases, bioweapons, and other anticipated microbial horrors' at the 2002 American Anthropological Association Meetings, 23 November. I thank me…
Trust
It is widely assumed that informing prospective subjects about the risks and possible benefits of research not only protects their rights as autonomous decisionmakers, but also empowers them to protect their own interests. Yet interviews with patient-subjects conducted under the auspices of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments suggest this is not always the case. Patient-subjects often trust their physician to guide them through …
Bioterrorism
This analysis was prepared for the 'Bioterrorism: Historical contexts, long-term consequences' conference held at the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, on 8 May 2002. A revised version was presented at the panel 'A plagued future? Emerging diseases, bioweapons, and other anticipated microbial horrors' at the 2002 American Anthropological Association Meetings, 23 November. I thank me…
Anthropology at speed, at scale, in action
This special issue presents accounts of different aspects of the CommuniVax Coalition and its work-a project that conducted rapid, multisited, applied anthropological research to deliver guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our purpose in writing these articles is to provide details of our work so anthropologists interested in similar types of research can learn from our efforts. While anthropological research has been, and largely still is, an…
Adapting rapid ethnographic research in an evolving emergency
To ensure the real-world utility of emergency ethnographic research, plans must evolve as circumstances shift. The CommuniVax coalition's work provides a case study of this scenario. Using rapid ethnographic interviews, focus groups, and other methods, the six local CommuniVax teams sought to comprehend and improve COVID-19 vaccine access and uptake. To this end, they responded nimbly to varying community priorities, the pandemic's shifting natur…
Applying up
Studying up" was Laura Nader's provocation to anthropologists to scrutinize the actions of the powerful few in relation to the ordeals of the powerless many. Engaging this lineage, this article describes CommuniVax, a rapid ethnographic research coalition supporting an equitable COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the United States. By tapping hyperlocal knowledge as well as that held by public health and governmental authorities at higher reaches, the c…
Post-Katrina, Pre-Pandemic America
Trust
It is widely assumed that informing prospective subjects about the risks and possible benefits of research not only protects their rights as autonomous decisionmakers, but also empowers them to protect their own interests. Yet interviews with patient-subjects conducted under the auspices of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments suggest this is not always the case. Patient-subjects often trust their physician to guide them through …
Bioterrorism
This analysis was prepared for the 'Bioterrorism: Historical contexts, long-term consequences' conference held at the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, on 8 May 2002. A revised version was presented at the panel 'A plagued future? Emerging diseases, bioweapons, and other anticipated microbial horrors' at the 2002 American Anthropological Association Meetings, 23 November. I thank me…
Bioterrorism
Safe Food
Book Review| October 01 2006 Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism. Marion Nestle. Monica Schoch-Spana Monica Schoch-Spana Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 470–472. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.4.470 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Monica Schoch-Spana; Safe Food: Bacteria…
Post-Katrina, Pre-Pandemic America
The 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic Escape Community Digital Document Archive (review)
Reviewed by Monica Schoch-Spana Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Baltimore, Maryland The 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic Escape Community Digital Document Archive, The Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, http://www.med.umich.edu/medschool/chm/influenza/index.htm. "Escape communities" were those rare towns, institutions, and military posts that experienced few (if any) cases …
Disaster Resilience
The Copewell Rubric
Measurement is a community endeavor that can enhance the ability to anticipate, withstand, and recover from a disaster, as well as foster learning and adaptation. This project's purpose was to develop a self-assessment toolkit-manifesting a bottom-up, participatory approach-that enables people to envision community resilience as a concrete, desirable, and obtainable goal; organize a cross-sector effort to evaluate and enhance factors that influen…
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Measurement to Enhance Community Resilience to Disasters
The SPARS Pandemic 2025-2028
Effective communication about medical countermeasures—including drugs, devices and biologics—is often critical in emergency situations. Such communication, however, does not just happen. It must be planned and prepared for. One mechanism to develop communication strategies is through the use of prospective scenarios, which allow readers the opportunity to rehearse responses while also weighing the implications of their actions. This article descr…
Modeling epidemic recovery
Copewell all-hazards resilience model predicts Covid-19 outcomes
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an unprecedented challenge to public health and other community level systems throughout the United States since 2020. Investigating county-level factors (covariates in a statistical sense) closely related to COVID mortality is an important research objective, as it can provide insight for improving pandemic preparedness and response. Community resilience , which signifies the capability and capacity of communi…
Applying up
Studying up" was Laura Nader's provocation to anthropologists to scrutinize the actions of the powerful few in relation to the ordeals of the powerless many. Engaging this lineage, this article describes CommuniVax, a rapid ethnographic research coalition supporting an equitable COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the United States. By tapping hyperlocal knowledge as well as that held by public health and governmental authorities at higher reaches, the c…
Anthropology at speed, at scale, in action
This special issue presents accounts of different aspects of the CommuniVax Coalition and its work-a project that conducted rapid, multisited, applied anthropological research to deliver guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our purpose in writing these articles is to provide details of our work so anthropologists interested in similar types of research can learn from our efforts. While anthropological research has been, and largely still is, an…
Adapting rapid ethnographic research in an evolving emergency
To ensure the real-world utility of emergency ethnographic research, plans must evolve as circumstances shift. The CommuniVax coalition's work provides a case study of this scenario. Using rapid ethnographic interviews, focus groups, and other methods, the six local CommuniVax teams sought to comprehend and improve COVID-19 vaccine access and uptake. To this end, they responded nimbly to varying community priorities, the pandemic's shifting natur…
Medicine (10 works) · Engineering (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Public health (5 works) · Community resilience (4 works) · Disaster Response and Management (4 works)