Syed Shahid Abbas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 9065263 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Syed Shahid Abbas |
| NOMBRES | Syed Shahid |
| APELLIDO | Abbas |
| FIRMA | ABBAS S S |
| AFILIACIONES | Institute of Development Studies |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 16 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Improving risk analysis of environmentally driven zoonotic biological threats as a primary pandemic prevention approach
Kenya faces a heightened risk of emerging and/or reemerging infectious disease (EID) outbreaks of zoonotic origins due to climate-induced extreme weather events and other environmental drivers. We aimed to obtain the perspectives of stakeholders on the development of a newly conceptualized integrated risk analysis (IRA) framework to address environmentally driven EIDs. We addressed the study aim by learning from stakeholders’ experiences with the…
Science, policy and trust
Commercial determinants of health
The One Health approach recognizes the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health, yet its implementation has largely focused on biomedical issues such as zoonoses and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This biomedical focus often overlooks the social and economic drivers that shape these challenges. In this article, we argue that applying a commercial determinants of health (CDoH) lens can enhance the analytical and policy releva…
Engaging communities in addressing antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a critical global health challenge that weakens the effective treatment of common infections and threatens health system functioning, particularly in settings where access to affordable healthcare and regulated medicines is limited. This study explores whether grassroots, community-driven approaches can improve the reception of AMR communication materials. Using Arts-Based Participatory Action research methods, 3…
Community engagement for vaccine delivery in low- and middle-income countries and humanitarian settings
Vaccination is a critical public health intervention in humanitarian and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) settings, where populations face heightened risks of vaccine-preventable diseases. Community Engagement (CE) offers a pathway to address challenges related to local ownership, trust, and acceptance, yet its effectiveness in these contexts remain underexplored. We conducted an umbrella scoping review of published reviews to synthesise evi…
The 30-year evolution of oral cholera vaccines
Cholera outbreaks have been rapidly increasing around the world. While long-term cholera prevention and control measures rely on improvements in water, sanitation, and hygiene, oral cholera vaccines (OCVs) are used for prevention and control in the short-to-medium term. OCVs lack the market incentives available in other more profitable disease areas. The development of OCVs was made possible through an alternative innovation model, which sustaine…
Laboratory readiness and genomic surveillance of Covid-19 in the capital of Brazil
This study aims to analyze the diagnostic readiness to Covid-19 and the genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. This is a retrospective, cross-sectional study, with data from: cases/deaths—Ministry of Health; RT-PCR analyses Brasília Central Public Health Laboratory (LACEN); genomics—Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID). It was found that in March 2021, with the Gamma variant was predominant, RT-…
Tracking the financial flows of Indonesia’s Covid-19 vaccination program
Despite available funding mechanisms for COVID-19 vaccination programs, disparities persisted in certain areas. This study aimed to track the sources, allocation, and utilization of provincial and district-level government expenditures on the COVID-19 vaccination program in Indonesia to identify financial gaps affecting vaccination coverage. This study used a mixed-method approach to track the expenditure of Indonesia’s COVID-19 vaccination progr…
A time of decline
The Central African Republic (CAR) has experienced repeated mpox outbreaks since 2001. Although several mpox epidemiological risk factors for zoonotic and interhuman transmission have been documented, the reasons for more frequent epidemic outbreaks are less well understood, relying on vague explanatory categories, including deforestation, hunting, and civil unrest. To gain insight into increasingly frequent outbreaks, we undertook an ethnohistor…
The role of global health partnerships in vaccine equity
The emergence of global health partnerships (GHPs) towards the end of the twentieth century reflected concerns about slow progress in access to essential medicines, including vaccines. These partnerships bring together governments, private philanthropic foundations, NGOs, and international agencies. Those in the vaccine field seek to incentivise the development and manufacture of new vaccines, raise funds to pay for them and develop and support s…
Specimen sharing for epidemic preparedness
We present a framework for a federated, virtual biorepository system (VBS) with locally collected and managed specimens, as a ‘global public good’ model based on principles of equitable access and benefit sharing. The VBS is intended to facilitate timely access to biological specimens and associated data for outbreak-prone infectious diseases to accelerate the development and evaluation of diagnostics, assess vaccine efficacy, and to support surv…
Social-political and vaccine related determinants of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in Tanzania
Vaccines have played a critical role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic globally, and Tanzania has made significant efforts to make them available to the public in addition to sensitizing them on its benefit. However, vaccine hesitancy remains a concern. It may prevent optimal uptake of this promising tool in many communities. This study aims to explore opinions and perceptions on vaccine hesitancy to better understand local attitudes towar…
“Right now we are scared of each other, we fear everyone, the whole world has Covid”
In 2020–2021 the COVID-19 pandemic led to multiple and diverse global public health response strategies globally and in Uganda to slow the spread of the virus by promoting wearing face coverings in public, frequent hand washing, physical distancing, restricting travel, and imposing home lockdowns. We conducted 146 interviews over four rounds of phone-follow up calls over 15 months with 125 young female sex workers coinciding in time with four dif…
Covid-19 self-testing, a way to “live side by side with the coronavirus”
Alongside mass vaccination for COVID-19, sustainable diagnostic strategies for SARS-CoV-2 are needed to empower local communities and help them complement health authorities’ efforts to end the pandemic in low- and middle-income countries. Indonesia is among the nations with an overstretched health system that may benefit from technological innovations, such as rapid SARS-CoV-2 antigen-detection tests for self-testing, to detect asymptomatic case…
How do local-level authorities engage in epidemic and pandemic preparedness activities and coordinate with higher levels of government? Survey results from 33 cities
The COVID-19 pandemic suggests that there are opportunities to improve preparedness for infectious disease outbreaks. While much attention has been given to understanding national-level preparedness, relatively little attention has been given to understanding preparedness at the local-level. We, therefore, aim to describe (1) how local governments in urban environments were engaged in epidemic preparedness efforts before the COVID-19 pandemic and…
Why is leptospirosis hard to avoid for the impoverished? Deconstructing leptospirosis transmission risk and the drivers of knowledge, attitudes, and practices in a disadvantaged community in Salvador,…
Several studies have identified socioeconomic and environmental risk factors for infectious disease, but the relationship between these and knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP), and more importantly their web of effects on individual infection risk, have not previously been evaluated. We conducted a cross-sectional KAP survey in an urban disadvantaged community in Salvador, Brazil, leveraging on simultaneously collected fine-scale environmen…
Findings of a community screening programme for human cystic echinococcosis in a non-endemic area
Cystic Echinococcosis (CE) is a zoonosis caused by infection with the larval stages of the taeniid cestodes of the species complex Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato. It is prevalent among transhumant communities in East Africa, including those residing in northern Kenya. The movement of livestock from these regions of high incidence to areas of low incidence creates an indirect risk of disease spill-over to humans. To assess possible establishme…
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Covid-19 self-testing, a way to “live side by side with the coronavirus”
Alongside mass vaccination for COVID-19, sustainable diagnostic strategies for SARS-CoV-2 are needed to empower local communities and help them complement health authorities’ efforts to end the pandemic in low- and middle-income countries. Indonesia is among the nations with an overstretched health system that may benefit from technological innovations, such as rapid SARS-CoV-2 antigen-detection tests for self-testing, to detect asymptomatic case…
How do local-level authorities engage in epidemic and pandemic preparedness activities and coordinate with higher levels of government? Survey results from 33 cities
The COVID-19 pandemic suggests that there are opportunities to improve preparedness for infectious disease outbreaks. While much attention has been given to understanding national-level preparedness, relatively little attention has been given to understanding preparedness at the local-level. We, therefore, aim to describe (1) how local governments in urban environments were engaged in epidemic preparedness efforts before the COVID-19 pandemic and…
Why is leptospirosis hard to avoid for the impoverished? Deconstructing leptospirosis transmission risk and the drivers of knowledge, attitudes, and practices in a disadvantaged community in Salvador,…
Several studies have identified socioeconomic and environmental risk factors for infectious disease, but the relationship between these and knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP), and more importantly their web of effects on individual infection risk, have not previously been evaluated. We conducted a cross-sectional KAP survey in an urban disadvantaged community in Salvador, Brazil, leveraging on simultaneously collected fine-scale environmen…
Findings of a community screening programme for human cystic echinococcosis in a non-endemic area
Cystic Echinococcosis (CE) is a zoonosis caused by infection with the larval stages of the taeniid cestodes of the species complex Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato. It is prevalent among transhumant communities in East Africa, including those residing in northern Kenya. The movement of livestock from these regions of high incidence to areas of low incidence creates an indirect risk of disease spill-over to humans. To assess possible establishme…
Specimen sharing for epidemic preparedness
We present a framework for a federated, virtual biorepository system (VBS) with locally collected and managed specimens, as a ‘global public good’ model based on principles of equitable access and benefit sharing. The VBS is intended to facilitate timely access to biological specimens and associated data for outbreak-prone infectious diseases to accelerate the development and evaluation of diagnostics, assess vaccine efficacy, and to support surv…
Social-political and vaccine related determinants of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in Tanzania
Vaccines have played a critical role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic globally, and Tanzania has made significant efforts to make them available to the public in addition to sensitizing them on its benefit. However, vaccine hesitancy remains a concern. It may prevent optimal uptake of this promising tool in many communities. This study aims to explore opinions and perceptions on vaccine hesitancy to better understand local attitudes towar…
“Right now we are scared of each other, we fear everyone, the whole world has Covid”
In 2020–2021 the COVID-19 pandemic led to multiple and diverse global public health response strategies globally and in Uganda to slow the spread of the virus by promoting wearing face coverings in public, frequent hand washing, physical distancing, restricting travel, and imposing home lockdowns. We conducted 146 interviews over four rounds of phone-follow up calls over 15 months with 125 young female sex workers coinciding in time with four dif…
A time of decline
The Central African Republic (CAR) has experienced repeated mpox outbreaks since 2001. Although several mpox epidemiological risk factors for zoonotic and interhuman transmission have been documented, the reasons for more frequent epidemic outbreaks are less well understood, relying on vague explanatory categories, including deforestation, hunting, and civil unrest. To gain insight into increasingly frequent outbreaks, we undertook an ethnohistor…
The role of global health partnerships in vaccine equity
The emergence of global health partnerships (GHPs) towards the end of the twentieth century reflected concerns about slow progress in access to essential medicines, including vaccines. These partnerships bring together governments, private philanthropic foundations, NGOs, and international agencies. Those in the vaccine field seek to incentivise the development and manufacture of new vaccines, raise funds to pay for them and develop and support s…
The 30-year evolution of oral cholera vaccines
Cholera outbreaks have been rapidly increasing around the world. While long-term cholera prevention and control measures rely on improvements in water, sanitation, and hygiene, oral cholera vaccines (OCVs) are used for prevention and control in the short-to-medium term. OCVs lack the market incentives available in other more profitable disease areas. The development of OCVs was made possible through an alternative innovation model, which sustaine…
Laboratory readiness and genomic surveillance of Covid-19 in the capital of Brazil
This study aims to analyze the diagnostic readiness to Covid-19 and the genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. This is a retrospective, cross-sectional study, with data from: cases/deaths—Ministry of Health; RT-PCR analyses Brasília Central Public Health Laboratory (LACEN); genomics—Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID). It was found that in March 2021, with the Gamma variant was predominant, RT-…
Tracking the financial flows of Indonesia’s Covid-19 vaccination program
Despite available funding mechanisms for COVID-19 vaccination programs, disparities persisted in certain areas. This study aimed to track the sources, allocation, and utilization of provincial and district-level government expenditures on the COVID-19 vaccination program in Indonesia to identify financial gaps affecting vaccination coverage. This study used a mixed-method approach to track the expenditure of Indonesia’s COVID-19 vaccination progr…
Improving risk analysis of environmentally driven zoonotic biological threats as a primary pandemic prevention approach
Kenya faces a heightened risk of emerging and/or reemerging infectious disease (EID) outbreaks of zoonotic origins due to climate-induced extreme weather events and other environmental drivers. We aimed to obtain the perspectives of stakeholders on the development of a newly conceptualized integrated risk analysis (IRA) framework to address environmentally driven EIDs. We addressed the study aim by learning from stakeholders’ experiences with the…
Science, policy and trust
Commercial determinants of health
The One Health approach recognizes the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health, yet its implementation has largely focused on biomedical issues such as zoonoses and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This biomedical focus often overlooks the social and economic drivers that shape these challenges. In this article, we argue that applying a commercial determinants of health (CDoH) lens can enhance the analytical and policy releva…
Engaging communities in addressing antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a critical global health challenge that weakens the effective treatment of common infections and threatens health system functioning, particularly in settings where access to affordable healthcare and regulated medicines is limited. This study explores whether grassroots, community-driven approaches can improve the reception of AMR communication materials. Using Arts-Based Participatory Action research methods, 3…
Community engagement for vaccine delivery in low- and middle-income countries and humanitarian settings
Vaccination is a critical public health intervention in humanitarian and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) settings, where populations face heightened risks of vaccine-preventable diseases. Community Engagement (CE) offers a pathway to address challenges related to local ownership, trust, and acceptance, yet its effectiveness in these contexts remain underexplored. We conducted an umbrella scoping review of published reviews to synthesise evi…
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