Although everyone has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, there are individuals and communities who were more fragile when it hit, or who were made more vulnerable by its many social, economic and health impacts.

In this extended webinar, jointly organised by Mesh and CONNECT, we introduce digital diaries – short films and photographs, created by healthcare workers and community members in Nepal, Indonesia and Vietnam as they reflect on their experiences. The digital diaries form part of the COVID-19 Social Science and Public Engagement Action Research (SPEAR) project.

Chair: Dr Mary Chambers, Head of Public Engagement at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit and Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme in Vietnam

Speakers:
Yen Hoang Nguyen, Media & Communications Coordinator, Public Engagement Department in the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam

Dr Gillian Black, Co-director, Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation, South Africa

Dinesh Deokota, Director, Media for Development (MFD), Nepal

Prof. Guy Thwaites, Director, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit and Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme in Vietnam; Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Oxford.