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SDGs in Asia – mind the widening gap
By: Ranjit Devraj – SciDev.Net [NEW DELHI] With Asia Pacific seriously lagging on all 17 of the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) there are doubts if the region will ever catch up. The latest progress report shows the region is…
New Drug Combo Tackles Malaria in HIV+ Mums
Science journalist Dann Okoth of LIDC member insitution SciDevNet recently reported on research conducted by a collaborative team from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, and Malawi University of Science and…
AI: A ‘potent remedy’ for Africa’s health challenges?
Writing in the science journal SciDevNet (an LIDC member organisation, Jackie Opara asserts that Artificial Intelligence (AI) could emerge as a potent remedy for long-standing challenges in Africa’s health care sector if innovators, researchers and policymakers collaborated and invested in the technology, an online…
LIDC in conversation with Persia Educational Foundation – Films from Iranian Women: Women, Life, Freedom –
Ahead of a festival of films by Iranian women co-curated by the Persian Educational Foundation (PEF) and Film Buzz in June 2023, Human Rights Academic and Advocate, Dr Tahirih Danesh sat down with LIDC’s Charine John to discuss the motivation…
City researcher launches book on women’s health, communications and development
The panel “How Women and Health NGOs Use Communications Strategically to Advocate for Gender Equality and Reproductive Health” was held on 19 April to mark the launch of Dr Carolina Matos’ book Gender, communications and reproductive health in international development.…
Impact on childhood mortality of interventions to improve drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) to households
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 supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions on mortality. This title…
‘It’s time to work beyond the lab’ – Q+A with Bolivian Biotechnologist, Carla Crespo Melgar
“We understood that it’s time to work beyond the lab, travel to communities and understand their problems in production.” – Biotechnologist Carla Crespo Melgar We are delighted to share this interview with Bolivian scientist Carla Crespo Melgar, Director of the…
COP27 will be remembered as a failure – here’s what went wrong
Mark Maslin, UCL; Priti Parikh, UCL; Richard Taylor, UCL, and Simon Chin-Yee, UCL Billed as “Africa’s COP”, the 27th UN climate change summit (otherwise known as COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, was expected to promote climate justice, as this is…
Global experts discuss action to tackle stunting and reach Zero Hunger
Text: João Pedro Costa Photo: João Pedro Costa. Graphic Facilitator Eleanor Beer live drew the second Action Against Stunting Hub. The second Action Against Stunting Day on 8 September 2022 attracted leading experts and policy-makers within stunting and nutrition.…
Meet LIDC’s member number 6,000
LIDC is proud to announce that we have reached 6,000 members. We are delighted that so many have signed up to become a part of our diverse, dynamic and ever-growing community of students, development professionals and researchers. In April…