Through multidisciplinary research and policy engagement we bring new understanding and action on critical issues around health and health systems, and how they overlap with other systems such as food, as well as nutrition, sanitation, epidemics and zoonotic diseases. Enhancing understanding of how to ensure healthy lives for all is a vital part of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Agenda 2030) and has been an integral focus of IDS’ work since its inception.
Our research and analysis on innovations in health services and systems – including work on identifying effective strategies to address the challenges of antimicrobial resistance – is accelerating progress towards achieving universal health coverage in Asia and Africa. Our work on nutrition spans the spectrum from dietary transition and globalisation of food systems, through to responding to the ways that marginalisation and inequity drive high child malnutrition rates. We bring vital social knowledge to aid effective preparedness and response on pandemics. We show how direct impacts on the spread of diseases such as Ebola can be achieved by bringing learning from research on social issues and contexts to the right people in the right organisations at the right time. Together with our global partners, we are generating and sharing new knowledge and evidence to identify the underlying causes of poor health and social inequalities, and the progressive policies and practices that can help bring about transformative change.
CLARISSA Nepal Action Research Group 1 worked on the theme ‘Children forced to discontinue their studies as a result of poor economic conditions resulting from family spending on alcohol and other addictions’.
When engaged in child labour, children are deprived of learning and are often exposed to a multitude of physical and psychological harms. South Asia is home to approximately 664 million children, the largest population of children in any one region in the world. Failing to address child labour...
This roundtable report presents a synthesised version of the roundtable discussion on the mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) outbreak which has been spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since early 2023.
DIIS Working Paper Series Roadblocks and Revenues #01
From Afghanistan and Yemen and from Mali to Somalia, checkpoints are central to dynamics of armed conflict, funding insurgents, driving violence and shaping governance by various types of armed actors, state and non-state alike. Nonetheless, checkpoints and roadblocks are often overlooked in...
This paper is based on a qualitative analysis of 405 life stories collected from child labourers in Bangladesh working in the worst forms of child labour in the leather sector or living in leather sector neighbourhoods.
I just came back from the 2024 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development hosted by SIPRI. It was a stimulating event, replete with doom and data, attended by a throng of practitioners, activists and researchers, many doing remarkable things to put our fractured world to rights.
I was there with...
This is the end-of-project dissemination seminar for the ANTICIPATE project where we will present findings from our work in Western India.
https://youtu.be/ZkpJeTKGfWI
Changing rainfall patterns caused by climate change can increase the severity and frequency of both droughts and floods....
We are very pleased to announce that IDS PhD researcher Sunisha Neupane -whose research is about Maternity Care in Rural Nepal - is the winner of the 3MT (Three Minute Thesis) competition 2024. Congratulations to Sunisha!
The competition is run by the Sussex Researcher School, at our partner...
Biodiversity is back on the international policy agenda in a big way. The United Nations names biodiversity loss, alongside climate change and pollution, as part of an interlinked planetary ‘triple crisis’. The UK was instrumental in driving forward the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global...
This country case study focuses on Nigeria and the specific challenge of conflict, violence, and insecurity. Using four waves of General Household Survey data covering the period 2010 to 2019, we analyse trends in poverty, food insecurity, shocks, and coping strategies among different population...
Reaching and engaging your audience is more difficult than ever in today’s world of information overload. As communications specialists, we have to come to grips with constant and confusing changes to social media platforms. Therefore, making your messages stand out requires more than just...
https://youtu.be/hIOI8BMk7iI
Join us for a launch event for Prof Sabina Faiz Rashid’s book Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows, published by Routledge UK.
Author Prof Sabina Faiz Rashid will read excerpts from her book, which is a compelling...
4 June 2024
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In an extraordinary time of challenge and change, we use more than 50 years of expertise to transform development approaches that create more equitable and sustainable futures. The work you do with us will help make progressive change towards universal development; to build and connect solidarities for collective action, locally and globally. The University of Sussex has been ranked 1st in the world for Development Studies for the past five years (QS World University Rankings by Subject).