Karine’s role within the Health and Nutrition Cluster at IDS consists of knowledge brokering, research communication, and policy engagement, in collaboration with a variety of partners.
Prior to working at IDS, Karine worked for various NGOs and CBOs on health & development issues with a focus on Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. She is fluent in French and Spanish.
This is a multi-disciplinary research partnership, led by IDS, which brings together a diverse group of anthropologists, historians, public health and nutrition specialists, and epidemiologists in Peru, Colombia and Nicaragua to create a network to tackle the challenge of malnutrition in Latin...
Es una colaboración multidisciplinaria, liderada por IDS, uniendo a un grupo diverso de antropólogo/as, historiadore/as, especialistas en salud pública y nutrición, y epidemiólogo/as en Perú, Colombia y Nicaragua, para la creación de una red que indague sobre el reto de la desnutrición...
This knowledge translation project aims to increase the visibility, support and uptake of research generated by IDRC’s cohort of CORE research projects, to foster evidence-based policymaking for response to and recovery from the socio-economic impacts of Covid-19.
The Unequal Voices project - Vozes Desiguais in Portuguese - examines the politics of accountability in health systems in Brazil and Mozambique, exploring how accountability can be used to deliver better health services for citizens everywhere.
17 September 2020
Indigenous peoples suffer from poorer health and social outcomes than non-indigenous populations. Forty years after the Alma Ata declaration, renewed and scaled up efforts to ensure that indigenous peoples are not left behind are needed if Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is to be achieved by...
26 October 2018
Last week, between 80-90 researchers, practitioners, advocates and policymakers gathered for a three-day workshop organised by the IDS Accountability for Health Equity programme. Tom Barker and Karine Gatellier share their reflections from the event.
26 July 2017
Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) was a three-year, CA$25m rapid research initiative that brought together 20 research projects to understand the socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic, improve existing responses, and generate better policy options for recovery. The research, funded by the...
13 December 2023
Stories of Change
Following its research which highlighted the key role played by young people in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) developed and delivered a training of trainers on social accountability for meaningful youth...
15 November 2023
Stories of Change
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit small-scale farmers, particularly women, very hard in Latin America. RIMISP – Latin American Center for Rural Development – has been conducting participatory research to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on smallholder farmers in the department of Huila, in...
23 November 2022
Stories of Change
Pakistan is facing numerous socioeconomic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, including on food security. Food insecurity, which is a long-standing issue, has become more visible since the pandemic. Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) partner the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI)...
5 September 2022
New Research on the impact of Covid-19, spanning 42 low- and middle-income counties, has identified macroeconomic and social policies required to build resilience against future health shocks and environmental emergencies. As world leaders meet at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World...
11 October 2022
Ahead of the UN Food Systems Summit taking place this week (23 September), experts are calling for a number of steps to protect the food and livelihood security of those hardest hit by Covid-19 – women and workers in informal economies around the world. The key recommendations below – aimed...
21 September 2021
What are the key elements of One Health food systems? What are the next steps to achieve this transformation? Panellists Dr Namukolo Covic, Senior Research Coordinator at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Professor Alan Dangour, Professor in Food and Nutrition...
This seminar discusses the main themes of the recently published IDS Bulletin 49.2, 'Accountability for Health Equity: Galvanising a Movement for Universal Health Coverage'. https://www.facebook.com/idsuk/videos/533322937107254/ The themes this seminar will talk about are: the nature of...