Associate Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana 502 285 INDIA.
Indian J Med Ethics. 2020 Jul-Sep;V(3):212-214. doi: 10.20529/IJME.2020.072.
This commentary reflects on what it means to do public health and social science research in a post-Covid world. Given the global urgency brought on by the pandemic, it appears as if any kind of non-Covid research has become redundant or meaningless. Yet, in many ways, the pandemic has highlighted the need to go back to many of the old lessons in the social sciences and public health. Here, I draw on the concept of "slow research" in global health to foreground some of these principles - the need to pay attention to local contexts and particularities, the importance of time to contemplate on the complexity of findings, and the need to think beyond global agendas that seek quick findings and globally scalable solutions, and focus on what is socially relevant in different local contexts. While not cast in opposition to rapid research, slow research is an important alternative, particularly in pandemic times.
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这篇评论反思了在后新冠疫情世界中从事公共卫生和社会科学研究的意义。鉴于大流行带来的全球紧迫性，似乎任何非新冠病毒的研究都变得多余或毫无意义。然而，在许多方面，大流行凸显了需要回归社会科学和公共卫生的许多旧经验教训。在这里，我借鉴全球卫生领域的“慢研究”概念，突出强调其中的一些原则——需要关注地方背景和特殊性，需要时间思考研究结果的复杂性，需要超越寻求快速发现和全球可扩展解决方案的全球议程，关注不同地方背景下具有社会相关性的问题。虽然“慢研究”不是与快速研究相对立的，但它是一种重要的替代方法，尤其是在大流行时期。
