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Her role in the COVID-19 Science Communication team is to assist in developing community surveys and COVID-19 content that is contextually responsive, culturally appropriate, and distributed through channels that establish credibility and trust.

Dr Sharli Paphitis is a research associate at Rhodes University and a researcher in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London. She has led NRF and MRC funded community-based interventions tackling issues of epistemic injustice in community health, water management, land redistribution, and recovery from gender-based violence across Southern Africa, Asia and Europe using a variety of qualitative, visual and participatory methods. Her role in the COVID-19 Science Communication team is to assist in developing community surveys and COVID-19 content that is contextually responsive, culturally appropriate, and distributed through channels that establish credibility and trust