Hana Rohan is a researcher and practitioner with over a decade of experience in humanitarian, development, and public health settings, with particular expertise in Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). She holds a doctorate in international development and has led qualitative and mixed-methods research for institutions including the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, BBC Media Action, and international NGOs. Her work spans health systems, epidemic response, gender-based violence, and displacement, often at the intersection of conflict and structural inequality. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and contributed to high-level policy processes, bringing both academic rigour and grounded insight to her analysis. She specialises in producing clear, evidence-based expert reports that communicate complex sociopolitical contexts with accuracy and ethical care for asylum and human rights proceedings.
Caste Discrimination Or Persecution
Child Protection/Child Abuse
Climate-Related Issues
Corruption & Impunity
Ethnic Discrimination Or Persecution
FGM/FGC
Gender-Based Violence/Domestic Violence /GBV
Healthcare Access/Health Systems Capacity
Forced Marriage
Government/State Actor Persecution
HIV/AIDS
LGBTQ
Journalist Persecution
Land Tenure Disputes
Likelihood Of Destitution Or Homelessness
Mental Illness
Political Persecution
Religious Discrimination Or Persecution
Safe Internal Relocation
Risk Of Retaliation
Specialized Medical Services
Witchcraft Accusations & Ritual Violence
Tribal Discrimination Or Persecution
Sufficiency Of Protection
Vanderslott, S. and Rohan, H. (2025). Key considerations for introducing experimental vaccines during health emergencies. Social Science in Humanitarian Action (SSHAP). www.doi.org/10.19088/SSHAP.2025.024
• Schmidt-Sane, M., Vanderslott, S., Rohan, H., and Enria, L. (2025). Using social and behavioural science to inform the use of experimental vaccines during health emergencies. Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform
(SSHAP). www.doi.org/10.19088/SSHAP.2025.013
• Boland, S., Mayhew, S., Rohan, H., Lilywhite, L., Balabonova, D., (2024) Enmity then empathy: how militarisation facilitated collaborative but exclusive exchange in Sierra Leone’s Ebola response, Disasters
https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12643
• Mayhew, S., Doyle, K., Babawo, L.S., Mokuwa, E., Rohan, H., Martinez-Alvarez, M., Borghi, J., Pitt, C. (2024) Did aid to the Ebola crisis divert aid for reproductive, maternal and newborn health? An analysis of donor-reported data in Sierra Leone. Conflict and Health18 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13031-024-00589-2
• Warsame, A., Eamer, G., Kai, A. Dios, L., Rohan, H., Keating, P., Katshishi, J., Checchi, F. (2023) Performance of a safe and dignified burial intervention during an Ebola epidemic in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2018– 2019. BMC Med 21, 484 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-03194-x
• Fongwen NT, Nchafack A, Rohan H, Ong JJ, Tucker JD, Beckmann N, et al. (2023) Role and effectiveness of telephone hotlines in outbreak response in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS ONE
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292085
• Rohan, H. (2023) Information Preparedness and Community Engagement for El Niño in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region. Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) www.doi.org/10.19088/SSHAP.2023.026
• Rohan, H. (2023) Situational Analysis: Marburg Virus Disease in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania. Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) www.doi.org/10.19088/SSHAP.2023.007
• Dobreva, Z., Gimma, A., Rohan, H., Djoudalbaye, B., Tshangela, A., Jarvis, C., van Zandvoort, K., Quaife, M. (2022). Characterising social contacts under COVID-19 control measures in Africa. BMC Medicine
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-022-02543-6
• Rohan, H., (2022). Beyond Lassa Fever: systemic and structural barriers to disease detection and response in Sierra Leone. PLOS NTDs, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010423
• McKay, G., Baggio, O., Camara, C., Ehrlach, E., Robles, L., Checchi, F., Rohan, H. (2022). “The Response is Like a Big Ship”: Community Feedback as a Case Study of Evidence Uptake and Use in the 2018-2020 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola Epidemic. BMJ Global Health https://gh.bmj.com/content/7/2/e005971
• Collins, J., Westerveld, R., Nelson, K. A., Rohan, H., Bower, H., Lazenby, S., Ikilezi, G., Bartlein, R., Bausch, D.G. & Kennedy, D. S. (2021). "Learn from the lessons and don't forget them": Identifying transferable lessons for COVID-19 from meningitis A, yellow fever, and Ebola virus disease vaccination campaigns. BMJ Global Health
https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/9/e006951
• Glazik, R., Moore, H., Kennedy, D., Bower, H., Rohan, H., Sharp, A., & Seale, A. C. (2021). A snapshot of the practicality and barriers to COVID-19 interventions: Public health and healthcare workers’ perceptions in high and low-and middle-income countries. PloS one, 16(11) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260041
• Holt, A., Hornsey, E., Seale, A. C., Rohan, H., Bausch, D. G., Ihekweazu, C., & Okwor, T. (2021). A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Personal Protective Equipment used in Lassa Fever Treatment Centres in Nigeria. Infection Prevention in Practice, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infpip.2021.100168
• MacGregor, H., Leach, M., Tshangela, A., Hrynick, T. A., Lees, S., Niederberger, E., Parker, M., Ripoll Lorenzo, S., Rohan, H., Schmidt-Sane, M., Tulloch, O., & Wilkinson, A. (2021). One size does not fit all: adapt and localise for effective, proportionate and equitable responses to COVID-19 in Africa. Family medicine and community health, 9(2),
https://doi.org/10.1136/fmch-2020-000709
• Rohan, H., Sundsmo, A., Tirivanhu, D., Chevo, T., Musandu, N. (2020). The Resilience Knowledge Hub COVID-19 Risk Communications Campaign Knowledge Attitude and Practice Assessment. UNDP (2020), ZRBF Resilience Knowledge Hub https://www.resilienceknowledgecentre.co.zw/sites/default/files/2020-
11/KAP%20Survey%20Detailed%20Report_1.pdf
• Rohan, H., McKay, G. (2020). The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: why there is no ‘silver bullet’. Nature Immunology. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-020-0675-8
• Rohan, H., McKay, G., Khosia, B. (2019). “Working in silos doesn’t work for outbreak response”: Localising social science response efforts in West Africa. PLOS Channels. https://collectionsblog.plos.org/working-in-silos-doesnt-work-for- outbreak-response-localising-social-science-response-efforts-in-west-africa
• Jendrossek, M., Edmunds, W. J., Rohan, H., Clifford, S., Mooney, T. A., & Eggo, R. M. (2019). Health care worker vaccination against Ebola: Vaccine acceptance and employment duration in Sierra Leone. Vaccine.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X19300295
• Rohan, H., Bausch, D., Blanchet, K. (2018). Action not Justification: How to use social science to improve outbreak response. PLOS Ebola Blog. https://blogs.plos.org/collections/action-not-justification-how-to-use-social-science-to-improve-outbreak-response/
• Brown, L., Eyres, P., Rohan, H., (2015) Deployment of Caller Location Services within Sierra Leone’s 117 Ebola Response Centre, Humanitarian Technology http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705815010474
• Rohan, H. Sierra Leone Armed Violence Baseline Survey Report 2012, Action on Armed Violence
(http://www.aoav.org.uk/uploads/on_the_ground/sierra_leone_armed_violence_baseline_survey_report.pdf)