Invitation to submit a manuscript to an article collection announced by Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (A Nature-Group Journal, part of Springer Nature).

Since the current global outbreak has emerged, most of the prestigious scientific publishers including ours (Springer Nature) have raised open-calls and free material in order to fight COVID-19. all these efforts logically are addressed to the medical societies and related disciplines. However, we are convinced that the contributions of academics, policymakers and other stakeholders from other areas, including the humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS), should not be overlooked.

Therefore, I am pleased to announce this open call for research article collection that aims to examine the innovative role and contributions of Humanities,  Arts, and Social Sciences -HASS- disciplines, as well as interdisciplinary efforts, in shaping the global response to public health crises. To this end, this collection intends to bring together a range of perspectives, empirical and theoretical, qualitative and quantitative, which draw on methods and approaches from, among other areas: cultural studies, new-media arts, history, digital humanities, law, media and communication studies, political sciences, psychology, sociology, social policy, science and technology studies.
Further, Interdisciplinary perspectives are welcomed, whether between HASS disciplines, or at the interface between HASS scholarship and the physical and clinical sciences, or engineering, mathematics, computer science.

Please, visit the open call and see the key themes, through which you can submit your contribution.
https://www.nature.com/palcomms/calls-for-papers#Epidemiology

Potential authors have to contact the editor of the collection with a very concise outlines of the article he/she would like to submit so that we can advise contributors to position their contributions suitably with the open call.

The editor of the collection:
Dr. Diaa Ahmed Mohamed Ahmedien
Associate Editor, Humanities and  Social Sciences Communications,
Nature-Group Journal, Springer Nature
diaa_mohammed@fae.helwan.edu.eg