The Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium was funded by the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme. The ESPA programme is funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), the…
Consortium
Diseases
The Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa programme saw natural and social scientists working on four zoonotic diseases, each affected in different ways by ecosystem changes and having different impacts on…
Publications
September 2017 People, patches, and parasites: the case of trypanosomiasis in Zimbabwe, was published in the journal Human Ecology. Co-authors include DDDAC partners Ian Scoones, Vupenyu Dzingirai, Neil Anderson, William Shereni and Susan Welburn. june 2017 A Special Theme Issue of the Philosophical…
Multimedia
Listen to Victor Galaz, co-lead of the Drivers of Disease political economy of knowledge and policy theme, and Assistant Professor at the Stockholm…
PhD STUDENTSHIP ON ZOONOTIC DISEASE: APPLY NOW
The STEPS Centre is inviting expressions of interest in a doctoral studentship on the social dimensions of zoonotic disease in Africa. This 3+1 studentship starts in October 2012. The deadline…
More epidemics resources
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…
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…
Identification of Minamata Disease
Minamata disease is one of the most severe diseases caused by environmental pollution in the world, which was first confirmed in 1956 in Minamata City, Japan.
WHAT DOES “ONE HEALTH” MEAN?
STEPS Centre researcher Paul Forster is blogging from the International One Health Congress in Melbourne. This is his second and final post from the Congress. Three full days on from…
ONE HEALTH, ONE WORLD?
Photo: SARS Mural, from Steel Monkey’s Flickr photostream (creative commons)STEPS Centre researcher Paul Forster is blogging from the International One Health Congress in Melbourne. This is the first of his…