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Why Don’t People Use Mental Health Services in India?
Mental health is a growing concern in high-income countries, but has long been neglected in development work. That is now slowly beginning to change as we increasingly recognise the links between mental and physical health, and as suicide overtakes many traditional…
A Conversation About the Current State of Vaccines with Heidi Larson
Heidi J. Larson, PhD, is Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where she is a Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science. Her particular research interest is the impact of rumours…
How a naïve e-mail got me into a PhD programme
Imagine… As a freshly minted Bachelors student in Dutch and German languages and cultures, you move from Belgium to the Netherlands to complete your Masters programme in Linguistics. You socialise easily with Dutch people since you speak the Belgian version…
Alumni Spotlight: Jasmine Burton
Our first Alumni Spotlight focuses on Jasmine Burton, a Rotary Global Scholar who graduated from LSHTM with an MSc in Public Health. Jasmine founded Wish for WASH, LLC, (W4W) a social impact startup that intends to bring innovation to sanitation after…
Global Campaigns for Gender Equality in Education: Whose Voices?
Malala Day is an occasion to celebrate an inspiring campaigner for gender equality and girls’ education. Of course this issue has gained support in development circles in the last few decades. Moreover it features prominently in the Millennium Development Goals…
Fieldwork’s Unspoken Challenge: Reverse Culture Shock
Fieldwork comes with the territory in the international development profession. Some LIDC members have been working and living around the world for most of their lives. Others may have set off on their first foray into a remote community this summer. The anxieties that come with…
Making a Case for Project Managers on Research Grants
This year alone UK Research and Innovation (formally Research Councils UK) is operating with a combined budget of £6 billion[i]. However, dedicated Project Managers on research grants are still seen as a luxury available only to teams that secure the…
Do Low-Cost Private Schools Really Deliver High-Quality Education in Lagos, Nigeria?
SDG 4 outlines a vision for free quality schooling, but it is a challenging goal to achieve given the continued growth of private schools across the globe. EQUIPPPS believes that there is a strong need for investigation into the ability…
It’s Time to Stand #WithRefugees
Are you wondering why your news and social media feeds are today teeming with disheartening or, more hopefully, uplifting posts about refugees? Well, that’s because today is World Refugee Day – a day designated by the United Nations “to commemorate…
The Rohingya: A Humanitarian Crisis
Many observers have described the flight of the Rohingya population from the Rakhine state in Myanmar as a rapid mass exodus. It’s estimated that more than 600,000 people have fled the violence, bringing the total number of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh to…