SoNAR-Global

Objective

SoNAR-Global activities include:

1. Jump-start research collaborations across regions and disciplines, by networking social scientists around the globe, providing them with regional discussion forums, information on infectious threats and AMR, and methodological support;
2. Develop, share and scale up new training curricula for social scientists and their partners. The network will arm social scientists and other actors with adapted and tested tools and engagement frameworks, and thus bolster social sciences research capacity and support new, effective approaches to the governance of infectious threats;
3. Foster dialogue between social scientists and global policymakers at regional hubs to implement responsive and effective governance models that have been adapted, tested and evaluated;
4. Mobilize regional hub thinktanks, meetings, and pilot testing to share lessons learned, and to disseminate effective tools and strategies that embrace inclusivity and enhance preparedness and response efforts.
5. Rapidly support the mobilization of social scientists who will contribute to an effective, adapted, coherent response to health crises throughout the world.
6. Offer robust expert advice and priority setting, in emergencies and over the long term.

AIGHD staff in particular leads activities regarding networking, communication, dissemination and exploitation package (Hardon/Pell) and capacity strengthening for social science-informed interventions package (De Vries). In addition, staff will also contribute its expertise to the development and pre-testing of Community One Health assessment tools, in the Building a Resilience framework package.