Mosoka Fallah
Biographic Data
| ID | 1676794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mosoka Fallah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mosoka |
| FAMILY NAME | Fallah |
| SIGNATURE | FALLAH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8740-4072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Risk behaviour associated with contracting the Ebola virus at funerals: A study of Liberians attending the funerals of individuals deceased from Ebola
Introduction: Funeral practices were identified as a significant source of Ebola transmission during the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak. This study investigated behaviours and contributing factors leading to Ebola exposure during funerals in Montserrado County, Liberia. Methods: In 2024, a cross-sectional study was conducted using face-to-face interviews with 200 participants (mean age:51 years; 69.5% male) from Clara Town and Vai Town with…
Accelerating community health worker programmes: A key priority of the Global Health Initiatives for the operationalisation of the Lusaka Agenda in Africa
Community health workers (CHWs) are the critical elements of vibrant primary healthcare (PHC) services
The role of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention during response to Covid-19 pandemic in Africa: Lessons learnt for future pandemics preparedness, prevention, and response
Climate change and malaria, dengue and cholera outbreaks in Africa: A call for concerted actions
Public health emergencies in war and armed conflicts in Africa: What is expected from the global health community
Representations of an Ebola ‘outbreak’ through Story Technologies
Background Attempts to understand biosocial phenomena using scientific methods are often presented as value-neutral and objective; however, when used to reduce the complexity of open systems such as epidemics, these forms of inquiry necessarily entail normative considerations and are therefore fashioned by political worldviews (ideologies). From the standpoint of poststructural theory, the character of these representations is at most limited and…
Malaria vaccine rollout begins in Africa: The need to strengthen regulatory and safety surveillance systems in Africa
Feasibility of digital contact tracing in low-income settings – pilot trial for a location-based DCT app
In our study several limitations of the DCT together with the impairment of GPS accuracy in urban settings impede the solely use of a DCT app. It could be feasible as a supplement to traditional manual contact tracing. DKRS, DRKS00029327 . Registered 20 June 2020 - Retrospectively registered
Postcolonial riskscapes: Risk, trust, and the community-based response to Ebola virus disease in Liberia
Mobilizing the social infrastructure of informal settlements in infectious disease response – The case of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa
When maximizing profit endangers our humanity: Vaccines and the enduring legacy of colonialism during the Covid-19 pandemic
The inequitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines that we see today must be situated within the historical context of colonialism, global capitalism, and the othering of the Global South. The effects of these structural factors have resulted in an exclusive preoccupation with profitmaking through vaccine manufacturing at the expense of humanitarian concern. The deliberate neglect in the vaccination of those in the Global South will enable the vir…
Extending the boundaries of 'urban society: The urban political ecologies and pathologies of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa
A disease outbreak is an emergent product of social and ecological processes. To more fully understand disease outbreaks and their response, we must therefore consider how these dual processes interact in specific locales within the context of an increasingly urbanized world. As such, in this paper we examine the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak and its response in West Africa by adopting the lenses of two approaches that are usually treated se…
Community engagement for health system resilience: Evidence from Liberia’s Ebola epidemic
The importance of community engagement (CE) for health system resilience is established in theoretical and empirical literature. The practical dimensions of how to operationalize theory and implement its principles have been less explored, especially within low-resource crisis settings. It is therefore unclear how CE is drawn upon and how, if at all, it facilitates health system resilience in times of health system crises. To address this critica…
Community-based reports of morbidity, mortality, and health-seeking behaviours in four Monrovia communities during the West African Ebola epidemic
The goal of this study was to assess morbidity, mortality, and health-seeking behaviours during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Monrovia, Liberia. This study examined commonly reported symptoms of illness, pre-clinical diagnostic practices, typical healthcare-seeking strategies, and health resources available to populations, in order to identify salient needs and gaps in healthcare that would inform local emergency response efforts. Semi-structured in…
Timing and utilization of antenatal care services in Liberia: Understanding the pre-Ebola epidemic context
Community-Centered Responses to Ebola in Urban Liberia: The View from Below
BACKGROUND: The West African Ebola epidemic has demonstrated that the existing range of medical and epidemiological responses to emerging disease outbreaks is insufficient, especially in post-conflict contexts with exceedingly poor healthcare infrastructures. In this context, community-based responses have proven vital for containing Ebola virus disease (EVD) and shifting the epidemic curve. Despite a surge in interest in local innovations that e…
Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. The report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola
The west African Ebola epidemic that began in 2013 exposed deep inadequacies in the national and international institutions responsible for protecting the public from the far-reaching human, social, economic, and political consequences of infectious disease outbreaks. The Ebola epidemic raised a crucial question: what reforms are needed to mend the fragile global system for outbreak prevention and response, rebuild confidence, and prevent future …
Extending the boundaries of 'urban society: The urban political ecologies and pathologies of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa
A disease outbreak is an emergent product of social and ecological processes. To more fully understand disease outbreaks and their response, we must therefore consider how these dual processes interact in specific locales within the context of an increasingly urbanized world. As such, in this paper we examine the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak and its response in West Africa by adopting the lenses of two approaches that are usually treated se…
Community engagement for health system resilience: Evidence from Liberia’s Ebola epidemic
The importance of community engagement (CE) for health system resilience is established in theoretical and empirical literature. The practical dimensions of how to operationalize theory and implement its principles have been less explored, especially within low-resource crisis settings. It is therefore unclear how CE is drawn upon and how, if at all, it facilitates health system resilience in times of health system crises. To address this critica…
Timing and utilization of antenatal care services in Liberia: Understanding the pre-Ebola epidemic context
When maximizing profit endangers our humanity: Vaccines and the enduring legacy of colonialism during the Covid-19 pandemic
The inequitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines that we see today must be situated within the historical context of colonialism, global capitalism, and the othering of the Global South. The effects of these structural factors have resulted in an exclusive preoccupation with profitmaking through vaccine manufacturing at the expense of humanitarian concern. The deliberate neglect in the vaccination of those in the Global South will enable the vir…
Community-Centered Responses to Ebola in Urban Liberia: The View from Below
BACKGROUND: The West African Ebola epidemic has demonstrated that the existing range of medical and epidemiological responses to emerging disease outbreaks is insufficient, especially in post-conflict contexts with exceedingly poor healthcare infrastructures. In this context, community-based responses have proven vital for containing Ebola virus disease (EVD) and shifting the epidemic curve. Despite a surge in interest in local innovations that e…
Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. The report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola
The west African Ebola epidemic that began in 2013 exposed deep inadequacies in the national and international institutions responsible for protecting the public from the far-reaching human, social, economic, and political consequences of infectious disease outbreaks. The Ebola epidemic raised a crucial question: what reforms are needed to mend the fragile global system for outbreak prevention and response, rebuild confidence, and prevent future …
Community-based reports of morbidity, mortality, and health-seeking behaviours in four Monrovia communities during the West African Ebola epidemic
The goal of this study was to assess morbidity, mortality, and health-seeking behaviours during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Monrovia, Liberia. This study examined commonly reported symptoms of illness, pre-clinical diagnostic practices, typical healthcare-seeking strategies, and health resources available to populations, in order to identify salient needs and gaps in healthcare that would inform local emergency response efforts. Semi-structured in…
Timing and utilization of antenatal care services in Liberia: Understanding the pre-Ebola epidemic context
Community engagement for health system resilience: Evidence from Liberia’s Ebola epidemic
The importance of community engagement (CE) for health system resilience is established in theoretical and empirical literature. The practical dimensions of how to operationalize theory and implement its principles have been less explored, especially within low-resource crisis settings. It is therefore unclear how CE is drawn upon and how, if at all, it facilitates health system resilience in times of health system crises. To address this critica…
Mobilizing the social infrastructure of informal settlements in infectious disease response – The case of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa
When maximizing profit endangers our humanity: Vaccines and the enduring legacy of colonialism during the Covid-19 pandemic
The inequitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines that we see today must be situated within the historical context of colonialism, global capitalism, and the othering of the Global South. The effects of these structural factors have resulted in an exclusive preoccupation with profitmaking through vaccine manufacturing at the expense of humanitarian concern. The deliberate neglect in the vaccination of those in the Global South will enable the vir…
Extending the boundaries of 'urban society: The urban political ecologies and pathologies of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa
A disease outbreak is an emergent product of social and ecological processes. To more fully understand disease outbreaks and their response, we must therefore consider how these dual processes interact in specific locales within the context of an increasingly urbanized world. As such, in this paper we examine the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak and its response in West Africa by adopting the lenses of two approaches that are usually treated se…
Feasibility of digital contact tracing in low-income settings – pilot trial for a location-based DCT app
In our study several limitations of the DCT together with the impairment of GPS accuracy in urban settings impede the solely use of a DCT app. It could be feasible as a supplement to traditional manual contact tracing. DKRS, DRKS00029327 . Registered 20 June 2020 - Retrospectively registered
Postcolonial riskscapes: Risk, trust, and the community-based response to Ebola virus disease in Liberia
The role of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention during response to Covid-19 pandemic in Africa: Lessons learnt for future pandemics preparedness, prevention, and response
Climate change and malaria, dengue and cholera outbreaks in Africa: A call for concerted actions
Public health emergencies in war and armed conflicts in Africa: What is expected from the global health community
Representations of an Ebola ‘outbreak’ through Story Technologies
Background Attempts to understand biosocial phenomena using scientific methods are often presented as value-neutral and objective; however, when used to reduce the complexity of open systems such as epidemics, these forms of inquiry necessarily entail normative considerations and are therefore fashioned by political worldviews (ideologies). From the standpoint of poststructural theory, the character of these representations is at most limited and…
Malaria vaccine rollout begins in Africa: The need to strengthen regulatory and safety surveillance systems in Africa
Accelerating community health worker programmes: A key priority of the Global Health Initiatives for the operationalisation of the Lusaka Agenda in Africa
Community health workers (CHWs) are the critical elements of vibrant primary healthcare (PHC) services
Risk behaviour associated with contracting the Ebola virus at funerals: A study of Liberians attending the funerals of individuals deceased from Ebola
Introduction: Funeral practices were identified as a significant source of Ebola transmission during the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak. This study investigated behaviours and contributing factors leading to Ebola exposure during funerals in Montserrado County, Liberia. Methods: In 2024, a cross-sectional study was conducted using face-to-face interviews with 200 participants (mean age:51 years; 69.5% male) from Clara Town and Vai Town with…
Medicine (14 works) · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Ebola virus (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Outbreak (7 works)