health
STEPS Seminar: Ted Schrecker on Labour arbitrage, financial fallout, expulsions
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomLabour arbitrage, financial fallout, expulsions: Exploring the mechanics of the inequality machine Ted Schrecker, Professor of Global Health Policy, Durham University STEPS Seminar: Ted Schrecker on Labour arbitrage, financial fallout, expulsions by Stepscentre on Mixcloud “The inequality machine is reshaping the planet”, in the words of the editor of Le Monde Diplomatique. In this presentation...
STEPS Seminar: Kamal Kar on Community-Led Total Sanitation
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom‘The Potential of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in achieving an Open Defecation Free (ODF) World’ Kamal Kar, Chairman CLTS Foundation This event will be livestreamed (see embedded video below). The UN seeks to eliminate the practice of open defecation entirely by 2025. Since its innovation in Bangladesh in 2000, Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has spread...
STEPS Seminar: Daniel O’Connor on the use of social media in health research
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom‘The Apomediated World: The Ethical Challenges of Using Social Media in Health Research’ STEPS Seminar with Daniel O’Connor, PhD, Head of Humanities and Social Science at the Wellcome Trust STEPS Seminar: Dan O'Connor - The ethical challenges of using social media in health research by Stepscentre on Mixcloud Social media such as blogs, wikis, discussion...
Synthetic Biology & Global Health – Claire Marris seminar
Room C233, Arts C University of Sussex, BrightonSynthetic Biology & Global Health: How to move beyond the promises/perils framing? Claire Marris, King’s College London A seminar co-organised by Centre for Bionetworking, STEPS Centre and Centre for Global Health Policy In a speech announcing the UK’s “eight great technologies” in 2012, Chancellor George Osborne stated that “synthetic biology will heal us, heat and...
‘India’s Risks’ book launch
Book launch: ‘India’s Risks: Democratizing the Management of Threats to Environment, Health and Values’ With Professor M V Rajeev Gowda, Honorable Member of Parliament and Professor Ian Scoones, STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex UK Thursday 19 February at 6.00 – 7.30 pm at The British Council, New Delhi Live streamed video...