A crisis to worsen all crises: living with lockdowns in the Global South.

In this episode Reva Yunus and Aleida Borges talk about the gendered aspects of a very ‘punitive’ pandemic response, especially in the Global South. Dr Aleida Mendes Borges also talks about the book, “Pandemic response and the cost of lockdowns. Global debates from humanities and social sciences”, which she co-edited with Peter Sutoris, Sinéad Murphy […]

The Children of Nowhere

This film, by Kunal Purohit and Abeer Khan (biographies below) for Collateral Global, cuts to the heart of CG’s research agenda: understanding the enormity of the harms which lockdowns brought about among vulnerable populations in the Global South. The education loss among poor kids in Low- and Middle-Income Countries has been nothing less than devastating, as […]

Did Covid-19 restrictions break British society?

In this CG Conversation, Dr Jennie Bristow talks to Professor David Livermore about the consequences of lockdowns and social distancing restrictions for the fabric of social life. As we move on from the pandemic itself, to what extent have the behaviours and mores of pre-Covid times changed? On one hand, dystopian fears about the end […]

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Episode 5 - The condition of educational institutions in Goudomp

Episode 4 - The Hotel at Goudomp

Episode 3 - Covid 19, Fear and Social breakdown

The Infectious Diseases We Don't Seem to Care About

Childhood vaccination disruptions illustrate how detached from reality, rationality, & morality response measures have become.

What It Means for Pandemic Response Measures to Be Ethical

The Elderly and the Pandemic Response

We must mind the gap between reasonable restrictions and state paternalism

Collateral effects of lockdown to combat the COVID-19-pandemic in Austria

Andreas Sönnichsen, MD Download full article here Background In March 2020 the Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz proclaimed that within weeks “everybody will have a family member or good friend dead due to COVID and Austria will face the horror of tens of thousands of deaths”. With these statements Austria went into lockdown on March 16, […]

Interview with Dr. Reginald M.J. Oduor on Covid-19 Measures in Kenya

Professor Toby Green speaks with University of Nairobi lecturer Dr. Reginald M.J. Oduor on the impact of Covid-19 measures in Kenya

Q&A with Filmmakers Abeer Khan and Kunal Purohit

Q&A with the filmmakers of CG's newest film 'Sex Workers in India: The Impact of Lockdowns'

A crisis to worsen all crises: living with lockdowns in the Global South.

The Children of Nowhere

Did Covid-19 restrictions break British society?

Toby Green & Thomas Fazi

ARTICLE - The Covid Consensus book launch in partnership with Collateral Global.

Carl Heneghan & Tom Jefferson

ARTICLE - The UK Covid Response: A Stool with Three Legs

Carl Heneghan & Tom Jefferson

ARTICLE - The Covid care-homes scandal

CG Mini-Lectures: How seasonality affects the spread of a new virus

PCR Test FAQs

Freedom of Information in the United Kingdom FAQs

Q&A with Dr Adu-Gyamfi on the impact of lockdowns in Ghana

Professor Toby Green and Dr Samuel Adu-Gyamfi discuss the catastrophic impacts Covid lockdown policies have had in Ghana

Vaccine Mandates: New Questions

Allyson Pollock, Carl Heneghan, and Paula Byrne discuss key policy questions around vaccine mandates

Mass Testing: Expensive, Chaotic, and Wasteful

Professor of Public Health Allyson Pollock discusses the pitfalls of mass PCR testing.

YOUR STORIES: "How Naive We Were"

The Strain of Pandemic Restrictions on Disabled Adults and Their Families

90 Years Old and Unafraid

Part Six - It Ain’t What You Do; It’s The Way That You Do It

Part Five - Capturing the Full Effects of Policy Interventions

Part Four - The Effects of Fear at a Time of Crisis