Related research: COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean

Co-producing knowledge during emergencies and pandemics: developing remote participatory visual methods using smartphones

This ESRC-funded project develops an innovative remote participatory visual method using smartphones in order to respond to the challenges involved in methodological co-production and participatory action research during emergencies, when the usual face-to-face approach becomes impossible.

Dr Sonja Marzia (LSE Methodology)

Innovation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

We will publish a series of policy briefs that analyse how countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have responded to the pandemic and its socio-economic consequences. 

Professor Gareth Jones (LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre)

Brazil's fight against hepatitis C: surveillance, control, and care

This study examines the prevalence of the hepatitis C virus in different populations and the risk factors associated with infection. It will also investigate and analyse issues relating to Brazil's approach to the epidemic, not least around surveillance and control, in order to inform governmental and non-governmental responses.

Professor Ken Shadlen (LSE International Development)

Access to (pandemic) medicines in the Cuban health security framework

This project works with Cuban policymakers and stakeholders to examine how global health security can contribute to greater resilience in health provision. It deals with issues of methodological and data capability, infrastructure and resilience, stockpiling of medicines, and drug pricing during health emergencies. 

Dr Clare Wenham (LSE Health Policy)

Engineering food: infrastructure exclusion and "last mile" delivery in Brazilian favelas

The project examines the apparent paradox of favelas as vibrant economic spaces but are also "food deserts". By mapping the formal and informal infrastructures facilitating or impairing affordability and accessibility of fresh food in favelas, it aims to help redesign supply chains, minimise gaps and inefficiencies, and reduce inequalities in access to fresh food.

Professor Gareth Jones (LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre)

Distributed governance: management of unruly spaces in São Paulo

This research develops the concept of "distributed governance" to examine how space, people, and activities are managed in urban Brazil. Distributed governance involves complex, multi-sided, and continually negotiated arrangements between diverse actors, including the state, the private sector, civil society, and organised crime.

Dr Matthew Richmond (LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre)