Everywhere and nowhere: A collaborative, patient-engaged study of factors affecting recognition and access to care for Long COVID in Brazil
Join the Department of Global Health and Population for this seminar featuring Emmilie Aveling, lecturer on health research and qualitative methods. Please note that an HUID is required to attend this in-person event.
Seminar description
Long Covid is estimated to affect hundreds of thousands of Brazilians, with those worst affected by Covid-19 least able to shoulder the debilitating health and social impacts of this chronic condition. In this talk, Emmilie will describe her collaboration with interdisciplinary researchers and people with lived experience to explore the complexity, uncertainty, and epistemic and social injustices surrounding recognition and care for Long Covid in Brazil. She will discuss methods and lessons for facilitating productive collaborative research. Then, drawing particularly on qualitative findings from this mixed methods study, Emmilie will highlight the mechanisms through which Long Covid is invisibilised within an overburdened universal health system, undermining access to Long Covid care, exacerbating social injustices, and stymying the potential for people living with Long Covid to attain a dignified quality of life.
Speaker bio
Emma-Louise “Emmilie” Aveling, PhD, MPhil, is a lecturer on health research and qualitative methods in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She specializes in applied qualitative research, community-engaged and collaborative approaches to tackling health inequities, and delivering high-quality, person-centered care.
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