Capacity building

Introduction On the 18th of May, the LIDC had the immense honour of hosting a large-scale event that brought together some of the most influential and reputable speakers in the ...

  We’re grateful to our colleagues Hugh Sharma Waddington, Sarah Bick, Sandy Cairncross and Edoardo Masset (LSHTM) for their work on this rigorous systematic evidence on the impacts of water ...

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) poses a threat to humanity equal to that of climate change. Both are global challenges. Both affect the sustainability agenda. Both are accelerated by human activity. Both ...

  She never planned to go into politics. Ebola changed that. “When you see you have the opportunity to make a difference, you do”, says Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, OBE. In 2017, ...

LIDC recently had the opportunity to talk to the dynamic Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE. She has received numerous plaudits for her work advocating for and empowering fellow Sierra Leoneans. In 2015, ...

How do we communicate messages about science in such as way that stakeholders and policy-makers are encouraged and empowered to engage more with scientific research? LIDC's Director, Professor Claire Heffernan ...

Thank you to all those who contributed to making the 2021 LIDC Evaluation short course such a success. We're extremely grateful to the course tutors, particularly our LIDC colleague (and ...

Scientists from low and middle-income countries (LMICs)  face many challenges when it comes to publishing their research in academic journals. First among these challenges is cost. Many journals ask for ...

LIDC member Dr Romina Istratii  is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at SOAS University of London. Here she describes the challenges of setting up project dldl/ድልድል (which means ‘bridge’ in Tigrigna), ...

Have you ever been without electricity for a day? For a week? For a month? How did you cope? 840 million people are still without access to electricity, with plenty ...