This project aims to investigate the social, economic and political impacts of chronic ambient (outdoor) air pollution on low-income communities in the fast industrialising countries of China and India. Poor…
Urban Air Pollution and Inequalities in Fast Industrialising Countries
Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa
Project dates: 2011-2016 NEW PUBLICATION: Special Issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B – ‘One Health for a Changing World: zoonoses, ecosystems and human well-being’ Read the media…
Changing health and welfare in China and the UK
Project dates: 2015 to 2018 Welfare services in China are changing rapidly in response to social, economic and demographic changes. The project ‘Adapting the health and welfare system to a…
Zoonoses: animal-to-human diseases
The STEPS Centre has a range of research projects and resources which explore zoonoses (diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans), offering new theory as well as practical solutions. Our work often considers…
Myanmar Pig Partnership
Dates: 2016 – 2021 The Myanmar Pig Partnership was an interdisciplinary research project exploring the disease risk thought to be accompanying changing pig production patterns in Myanmar. Read three Evidence…
Livestock, Livelihoods and Health
Dates: 2014 – 2018 Livestock, Livelihoods and Health is an interdisciplinary research programme exploring diseases that can be transmitted from wild or domesticated animals to people (zoonoses). These diseases, as…
Rift Valley Fever: policies to prepare and respond
This project compared the responses to two diseases – Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in East Africa, and BSE in the UK and European Union. These so-called transboundary animal diseases are…
From Framings to Pathways: Bats and the Construction of Risk in Ghana
Project dates: 2011 to 2016 This project took a historical perspective on the way bats and disease are understood in Ghana, how framings shift over time and how this has informed…
Avian ‘flu: the politics and policy processes of a global response
The spread of avian flu in humans has raised alarm bells around the world. What lies behind global and national responses to avian flu, and how do they cope with uncertainty and surprise? What are the challenges and opportunities for future policy?
ARCADE Asia
Asian Regional Capacity Development for Research on Social Determinants of Health (ARCADE RSDH) This project will add new research training capacity at low and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Asia, for…