Melissa Leach, Andy Stirling and Adrian Ely will be presenting the New Manifesto in Paris on the afternoon of 6 January. The discussion (in French) will invite responses from French…
Paris roundtable, 6 Jan 2011
VIDEO: BRAND AID – SHOPPING WELL TO SAVE THE WORLD
Here’s the video of last week’s seminar on Bono, “aid celebrities” and the RED campaign, by Lisa Ann Richey, Professor of International Development Studies at Roskilde University. If embedding doesn’t…
LESSONS IN “SCALING UP” HEALTH SERVICES FROM NIGERIA, CHINA & BRAZIL
What happens when you “scale up” health services to try to provide widespread coverage in a region or country? The “Beyond Scaling Up” panel at the Health Systems Research symposium…
MONTREUX: ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND HEALTH RISKS
By Michael Loevinsohn, STEPS Centre member On Wednesday I chaired a session on New Directions in Health-Environment Research: Implications for Health Systems. The topic is a bit off the beam…
MONTREUX: KNOWLEDGE AND TRUST – HEALTH SYSTEMS RESEARCH
By Michael Loevinsohn, STEPS Centre member You know you’re a discipline or a significant sub-discipline when you can organize and find funding for a global symposium. Twelve hundred participants from…
MONTREUX: BEYOND SCALING UP
Gerry Bloom, STEPS Centre health convenor, will be holding a session tomorrow (Thursday) at the the First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Montreux, entitled “Beyond Scaling Up”. Here’s…
MONTREUX: NEW DIRECTIONS IN ENVIRONMENT-HEALTH RESEARCH
Some of us are at the First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Montreux and running events discussing our recent work (see the STEPS Centre events page for full…
TRANSITIONS: HOW GOOD IDEAS GO GLOBAL
Traditional forms of energy supply are being challenged. Photo: Gas meter dials by Leo Reynolds on Flickr (Creative Commons) By Adrian Smith, STEPS Centre member How does a new way…
BEING “HEALTHILY SCEPTICAL” ABOUT BIOFORTIFICATION
Lawrence Haddad, IDS Director, has written about the future of biofortification (and mentioned the STEPS Centre’s work) on his blog, Development Horizons: “To date, biofortification has relied on conventional breeding…
BONO, BRANDS AND AID
Lisa Ann Richey, Professor of International Development Studies at Roskilde University, will be talking about aid partnerships, RED and “aid celebrities” in the next STEPS Centre seminar on 25 November….