SMAPL Project
The project “Social Mobilization as a Lever for Policymaking? A Transatlantic Dialogue on Community Action and Decentralized Governance during Covid-19 (SMAPL)” involves collaborative efforts between community activists and researchers to develop health communication tools. These tools aim to strengthen the unique identity, with its own principles, found in the specific forms of resistance to COVID-19, contributing to other public health issues and future emergency responses. The project also focuses on the joint planning, led by community activists, of activities that can improve the relationship between the community and local authorities in the health sector.
SMAPL Team
We are a group of community activists, researchers, students, and professors working on the challenge of telling the story of the COVID-19 pandemic response in six communities (located in the Paraisópolis Complex, Brazil; Southwestern Ontario and Montreal, Canada; Giessen and Bochum, Germany; and the Amazon region, Peru). These communities host significant populations of migrants, racialized, Indigenous and low income groups, who, through activism, sought to fill gaps in government responses.