• COVID-19
• economy
• epidemiological
• inequality
• macroeconomic
• societal

This study is conducted to understand the health and societal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Gambia vs Sub- Saharan Africa (SSA): The role of poverty and inequality. It is divided into two phases where the first phase will focus more on providing a detailed overview of the main features of the COVID-19 pandemic in The Gambia in comparison with other SSA countries looking at the contributions of the aforementioned factors in shaping the direct and indirect impact of the pandemic on health and the society as a whole and focuses on whether the impact of the COVD-19 was made worse by economic and societal inequality and in its turn worsened economy inequality.
To advance into the study, the second phase however involves reviewing major contributions on the macroeconomic and health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic with special reference to Sub- Saharan Africa and The Gambia. This phase, however, focuses on the macroeconomic- epidemiological models for the impact of COVID-19 in developing countries including SSA.