Managing Corona. An ethnographic study of crisis decision-making

As healthcare systems are overwhelmed with the consequences of the Corona virus pandemic, they struggle with substantive, institutional and strategic uncertainties. We know little about how decision-making under such circumstances evolves and to what consequences for organisations, professionals, and citizens/patients. To contribute to current and future pandemic decision-making, we collect ethnographic data in a large university hospital and a municipality, focussing on local and regional decision-making structures and practices by observing meetings and interviewing key actors.