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Our blogs on swine flu Ian Scoones on Responding to Pandemic Threats (April 2010) The lessons of swine flu: Ian Scoones, The Guardian, 10 May 2009. A longer version is…
CGIAR SCIENCE FORUM, BEIJING
By ERIK MILLSTONE, STEPS Centre Member The 2nd Science Forum of the CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) took place in Beijing this week, and the discussions represented a…
NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES: AN INDICATOR OF GREATER SHIFTS
By Hayley MacGregor, STEPS Centre member The UN High-level Summit on Non-communicable Diseases now underway comes at an important moment for the development community. With just over 50 per cent…
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…
SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF DISEASE
We’ve added three new research projects we’re involved in to the website, under the heading “Socio-ecological dynamics of disease”. The projects are all looking at the social, ecological, biological and…
ANTIBIOCALYPSE: HOW DO WE RESPOND TO SUPERBUGS?
by Gerry Bloom, STEPS Centre Health domain convenor On August 11 the Lancet published an article that demonstrated the emergence of a new antibiotic resistance mechanism (known as NDM-1) in…
NEW BOOK: EPIDEMICS
Epidemics: Science, Governance and Social Justice, the new book in our Pathways to Sustainability series, highlights the problems of emergency knee-jerk responses to serious outbreaks of disease. Of the many…
NEW BOOK: AVIAN INFLUENZA: SCIENCE, POLICY AND POLITICS
Our new book, Avian Influenza: Science, Policy and Politics, edited by Ian Scoones, is out today. Earthscan books is offering a 20% discount (see link below). Buy from Earthscan (20%…
KILLER DUST: NEW ASBESTOS REPORT
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member STEPS member Linda Waldman has co-aurthored a new academic report commissioned by construction union UCATT. Linda and Heather Williams have uncovered huge deficiencies in…