Rapid Qualitative Approaches in Pandemic Research: Protocol for an Exploratory Qualitative Multimethod Study (VERDIQual) on Mpox in Italy, Nigeria, Thailand, and the United Kingdom

Chinye Osa-Afiana   ¹ , MPH ;   Marthe Le Prevost   ² , MSc ;   Emily Jay Nicholls   ³ , PhD ;   Davide Bilardi   ^{4, 5} , DPhil ;   Thomas E Guadamuz   ⁶ , PhD ;   Esekwe E Soje-Amadosi   ¹ , MPH ;   Grace I Adebisi   ¹ , MPH ;   Chibueze Adirieje   ¹ , MPH ;   Adeyosola A Adetunji   ⁷ , MD ;   Karima Yusufu   ⁷ , MD ;   T Charles Witzel   ^{3, 6} , PhD ;   Worawalan Waratworawan   ^{6, 8} , MA ;   Nattharat Samoh   ⁶ , MA ;   Tom May   ^{9, 10} , PhD ;   Sarah Denford   ^{9, 10} , PhD ;   Willian Gomes   ¹¹ , MA ;   Uzodinma Adirieje   ¹² , PhD ;   Shema Tariq   ^{3, 13 *} , MD, PhD ;   Nadia Adjoa Sam-Agudu   ^{1, 7, 14, 15 *} , MD

¹ International Research Center of Excellence, Institute of Human Virology Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria

² MRC Clinical Trials Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom

³ Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

⁴ Fondazione Penta, Padua, Italy

⁵ Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

⁶ Mahidol Center for Health, Behavior and Society, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Nakorn Pathom, Thailand

⁷ Pediatric and Adolescent ART Unit, Department of Prevention, Care and Treatment, Institute of Human Virology Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria

⁸ Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of Society and Health, Mahidol University, Nakorn Pathom, Thailand

⁹ NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Evaluation and Behavioural Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

¹⁰ Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

¹¹ European AIDS Treatment Group, Lisbon, Portugal

¹² Afrihealth Optonet Association, Abuja, Nigeria

¹³ Mortimer Market Centre, Central and Northwest London, NHS Foundation Trust, London, England, United Kingdom

¹⁴ Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Central, Ghana

¹⁵ Global Pediatrics Program and Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, United States

*these authors contributed equally