Laura Bolton

Person

Research Officer

Email

l.bolton@ids.ac.uk

Telephone

+44 (0)1273 915769

Laura is a Research Officer in the Health and Nutrition Cluster at IDS. Her current role is to support decision making for UK Government Department for International Development (DFID) advisers. This involves gathering and analysing evidence to produce reviews on nutrition, health and education.

Laura brings expertise from Economics and Statistics qualifications to the work she does. She has contributed quantitative analysis to research for IDS fellows: constructing a vulnerability index for countries post-financial crisis, and producing aid concentration curves to analyse aid allocation.

Working days are Monday, Tuesday and Friday.

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Project

K4D Prosperity Fund COVID-19 Evidence and Learning Initiative

This Evidence and Learning Initiative was a cooperation with the Prosperity Fund (PF). It helped to ensure that in the current context of COVID-19, changes to the existing PF portfolio (and investments in new ones) are informed by and contribute to the evidence base on how the pandemic is...

Project

Decentralisation, Participation and Equity in the English NHS (Part of National Health Systems from a Comparative Perspective: Studies of Local, Regional and Participatory Management)

The study – one of a series of country studies –examined the National Health Service (NHS) in England, in order to develop proposals for reform towards an effective, universal, quality health system in Brazil.

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Report

The Socioeconomic Impact of Covid-19 in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Synthesis of Learning from the Covid-19 Responses for Equity Programme

This report provides a snapshot of the research undertaken and published by members of the IDRC-supported CORE programme. It sets out the main themes addressed by the research in relation to Covid-19 impacts on industries, sectors and socioeconomic groups in locations across Africa, Middle East,...

Laura Bolton

James Georgalakis

10 October 2022

Publication

Synthesis of Work by the Covid Collective

Overview: This report looked across Covid Collective outputs and grouped findings into three sections. Section 2) Pandemic response; Section 3) Increased marginalisation; and Section 4) Emergent outcomes. Section 4 describes outcomes, both positive and negative, which evolved and were more...

Laura Bolton

17 May 2022

Publication

Malaria, HIV, and TB in Uganda: Epidemiology, Disease Control, and Interventions

K4D Helpdesk Report

This Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) programme report analyses the evidence on epidemiology (including demographic and geographic inequalities) and disease control challenges of malaria, HIV and TB; and on the effectiveness of interventions aimed at preventing, detecting...

Laura Bolton

20 April 2022

Report

Initiatives for the Governance of the Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout, with Special Reference to Social Inclusion

Covid Collective Helpdesk Report 7

What initiatives are taking place relating to the governance of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout? How will social inclusion be ensured? What contributions have INGOs, academia, multilaterals, bilaterals, national governments and CSOs made to the thinking behind this? This rapid review was sourced...

Laura Bolton

7 September 2021

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Cluster

Health and Nutrition

Our health and nutrition work brings new understanding and action on health tackling epidemics, antimicrobial resistance and zoonotic diseases. We generate new evidence and analysis on nutrition issues including dietary transition, globalisation of food systems, and responding to the ways that...

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How does national law and legal activism progress human rights for equitable food systems?

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Laura Bolton

Research Officer

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Research

K4D Prosperity Fund COVID-19 Evidence and Learning Initiative

Decentralisation, Participation and Equity in the English NHS (Part of National Health Systems from a Comparative Perspective: Studies of Local, Regional and Participatory Management)

Publications

The Socioeconomic Impact of Covid-19 in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Synthesis of Learning from the Covid-19 Responses for Equity Programme

Synthesis of Work by the Covid Collective

Malaria, HIV, and TB in Uganda: Epidemiology, Disease Control, and Interventions

Initiatives for the Governance of the Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout, with Special Reference to Social Inclusion

Laura Bolton’s recent work

Health and Nutrition

Latest work