By BARUN KANJILAL, Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur and member of the Future Health Systems consortia The 2009 parliamentary election in India meant a roller-coaster journey for the country…
INDIAN ELECTION: A STEPS TOWARDS CHANGES IN HEALTH PROVISION?
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS WITH THE STEPS CENTRE
By HARRIET LE BRIS, STEPS Centre member The ESRC STEPS Centre is pleased to be able to offer one-month postdoctoral fellowships, based here in Sussex. The ESRC STEPS Centre (Social,…
GM CROPS: TEN YEARS ON
By IAN SCOONES, STEPS Centre Co-director A decade ago there was much hope – and even more hype – about the potentials of GM crops. GM crops were going to…
GM CROPS: JUNE LAUNCH
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member On June 10 the STEPS Centre is launching a Biotechnology Research Archive and a new paper on Bt Cotton by Dominic Glover at a…
Resources
Here you can download the original 1970 Sussex Manifesto and access a variety of resources on Professor Geoff Oldham’s seminar on the writing of that document forty years ago.
SWINE FLU: SOME EMERGING LESSONS
By IAN SCOONES, STEPS Co-Director Read a short version of this piece, published in The Guardian.The back-story of the swine flu outbreak is gradually seeping out. There are some vitally…
INNOVATION, SUSTAINABILITY, DEVELOPMENT: A NEW MANIFESTO – THE VIEW FROM NEPAL
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member See photos from this event We are hoping to link up this lunchtime with the Innovation Asia-Pacific Symposium being held in Kathmandu, Nepal, for…
LETTER FROM DHAKA: HOW CAN WE REINVENT PUBLIC HEALTH?
By HILARY STANDING, Fellow on Health in the IDS KNOTS Team and Director of Realising Rights Living in Dhaka is a daily lesson in the extremes of human urban existence….
BOY ‘WAS FIRST TO GET SWINE FLU’
From the BBC News website following the authorities in Mexico saying they think they have pinpointed where the swine flu virus began. The video features ABC News’ Jeffrey Kofman speaking…
SWINE FLU: GOVERNING GLOBAL HEALTH IN AN AGE OF EPIDEMICS
By IAN SCOONES, STEPS Centre Co-Director More than 150 deaths in Mexico, a public emergency declared in the US, China banning imports of pigs from the USA and Mexico, health…