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.
It is almost two years since I wrote the Digital Rights Landscape report on Sudan, documenting improved internet access alongside increasingly aggressive government action to limit online freedom and close civic space. Unfortunately, not much has changed.
In Sudan, like in countries all...
This seminar discusses sustainable development impact of trade and investment - examining the accompanying role of trade facilitation measures, as well as environmental, social and other complementary policies for effective implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. The seminar...
Research published by UCL in 2021 highlighted synergies between sanitation and all 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Despite this many water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) actors operate in isolation, with few opportunities for learning from across sectors.
Over the years, here at the...
This moment in the Covid-19 pandemic is marked by its contrasts: whilst some countries emerge from restrictive public health measures and consider how to ‘live with Covid’, others continue to struggle with the health impacts of new variants. There is widespread agreement that Covid-19 has...
The ESRC STEPS Centre has made its free online course on Pathways to Sustainability available with new video lectures and reading lists.
The course introduces a set of ideas, approaches, cases and methods for critical research and action on sustainability, building on the STEPS Centre’s work....
Many of us would give an almost instinctual answer to the question posed in the title to this Sussex Development Lecture. We would say that clearly both are important. However, the relationship between scientific advice in response to immediate policy questions on one hand, and research and...
We investigate the cross scalar linkages between every day violence and global war on terror in the context of urban Pakistan. We draw upon intensive research undertaken in the twin cities of Rawalpindi/Islamabad and Karachi to highlight how marginalized Pashtun and Bengali Rohingya...
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).