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1. Beyond the Gender of the Livestock Holder: Learnings from Intersectional Analyses of PPR Vaccine Value Chains in Nepal, Senegal, and Uganda

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Renata Serra, Nargiza Ludgate, Katherine Fiorillo Dowhaniuk, Sarah L. McKune, and Sandra Russo

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smallholder livestock systems, vaccine value chain, peste des petits ruminants (PPR), community animal health worker (CAHW), gender, intersectionality, Veterinary medicine, SF600-1100, Zoology, QL1-991
Abstract

The peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a deadly viral disease of small ruminants, which are an important source of livelihood for hundreds of millions of poor smallholders throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. PPR vaccination efforts often focus on overcoming financial, technological, and logistical constraints that limit their reach and effectiveness. This study posits that it is equally important to pay attention to the role of gender and other intersecting social and cultural factors in determining individual and groups’ ability to access PPR vaccines or successfully operate within the vaccine distribution system. We compare three study contexts in Nepal, Senegal, and Uganda. Qualitative data were collected through a total of 99 focus group discussions with men and women livestock keepers and animal health workers, 83 individual interviews, and 74 key informant interviews. Our findings show that there are not only important gender differences, but also interrelated structures of inequalities, which create additional sites of exclusion. However, these intersections are not generalizable across contexts—except for the intersection of gender and geographic remoteness, which is salient across vaccine distribution systems in the three countries—and social markers such as caste, ethnicity, and livelihood are associated with vulnerability only in specific settings. In order to address the distinct needs of livestock keepers in given settings, we argue that an intersectional analysis combined with context-dependent vaccination approaches are critical to achieving higher vaccination rates and, ultimately, PPR disease eradication by 2030.

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2022
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2. Psychosocial Health of K-12 Students Engaged in Emergency Remote Education and In-Person Schooling: A Cross-Sectional Study

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Diana Joyce-Beaulieu, Anthony T. Maurelli, Yui Fujii, Eric J. Nelson, K D Jacobs, Sarah L. McKune, and Daniel Acosta

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Adolescent, Cross-sectional study, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, education, Article, Surveys and Questionnaires, Pandemic, medicine, Prevalence, Humans, Child, Pandemics, Depression (differential diagnoses), psychosocial health, OCD, students, SARS-CoV-2, Significant difference, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, COVID-19, anxiety, Mental health, humanities, Cross-Sectional Studies, virtual learning, depression, Anxiety, Medicine, medicine.symptom, Psychology, Psychosocial, environment, Clinical psychology
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As online classes became the norm in many countries as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the concern for child and adolescent mental health became an issue of concern. This study evaluates the differences in the psychosocial status of school children based on engagement in in-person or Emergency Remote Education (ERE) and assessed the prevalence and predictors of symptom-derived risk levels for anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD). Cross-sectional data were collected from students at a Florida K-12 school and their household members through an online survey conducted in October 2020 (n = 145). No significant difference was found between ERE and in-person learning for risk of anxiety, depression, or OCD. Prevalence of students presenting as at risk for anxiety, depression, and OCD was 42.1%, 44.8%, and 41.4%. Several student factors (e.g., child sex, school level) and parental factors (e.g., parental COVID-19 attitudes) were associated with students presenting as at risk for anxiety, depression, or OCD, child’s participation in sports was protective against all three outcomes. Participation in sports was found to be protective against risk of anxiety (aOR = 0.36, CI = 0.14–0.93), depression (aOR = 0.38, CI = 0.15–0.93), and OCD (aOR = 0.31, CI = 0.11–0.85).

Published
2021

3. Investigating the Conceptual Plurality of Empowerment through Community Concept Drawing: Case Studies from Senegal, Kenya, and Nepal

Author

Katharine McNamara, Thérèse D Auria Ryley, Chesney McOmber, and Sarah L. McKune

Subjects
gender and division of labor, 050204 development studies, media_common.quotation_subject, Geography, Planning and Development, TJ807-830, Context (language use), 010501 environmental sciences, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, TD194-195, 01 natural sciences, Renewable energy sources, Nepal, Women's empowerment, 0502 economics and business, GE1-350, Sociology, Empowerment, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, media_common, Conceptualization, Environmental effects of industries and plants, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 05 social sciences, Gender studies, Building and Construction, gender and development, Kenya, Senegal, Environmental sciences, Scholarship, Gender and development, gender inequalities, International development, women’s empowerment, Meaning (linguistics)
Abstract

Women’s empowerment is a driving concept in gender and development scholarship. This scholarship often engages quantitative indices of evaluation that are unable to account for culturally specific meaning and nuance that shape local understandings of empowerment. Recent efforts within the field of international development are attempting to create methodological mechanisms for capturing this nuance. This study employs one such method, Community Concept Drawing (CCD), in rural villages within Kenya, Senegal, and Nepal. Findings indicate significant differences between the field sites in the local conceptualization of empowerment. Cross-examination of site-specific data yields an understanding of how cultural norms and values shape local perceptions of empowerment in ways that are critical for research that engages gendered understandings. Furthermore, such analysis is critical to a more accurate understanding of the locally specific context of gender inequity.

Published
2021

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