Health at IDS
Resource Guides & Research
Programmes
Eldis Resource Guides
The ESRC STEPS Centre
Social
Technological and
Environmental
Pathways to
Sustainability
STEPS challenges
• Linking environmental sustainability with poverty
reduction and social justice
• Making science and technology work for the poor
• Across 3 domains: Health, Agriculture and Water
Challenging Conventional
approaches of separate sectors
and disciplinary silos
www.steps-centre.org
From singular solutions towards multiple pathways
• Understanding dynamic patterns & pathways of change
• Addressing governance - politics and institutions
• Building Pathways to Sustainability - involving poorer
and marginalised people in responses that contribute to
their goals
www.steps-centre.org
Epidemics and policy
• Epidemics: Science,
Governance and
Social Justice
• Avian Influenza:
Science, Policy and
Politics
Projects: environment / health
Dynamic drivers of disease in Africa: interactions of
livestock/wildlife, poverty and environmental change
From bats to humans: The social, ecological &
biological dynamics of pathogen spillover
The intensification of livestock production and its
impact on zoonotic disease risk in Asia
Asbestos Disease
• The Politics of Asbestos:
Understandings of Risk,
Disease and Protest
Research on access, affordability and quality of
health services for poor people
• Health systems and the knowledge economy
• Changes in Information & Communications
Technology (ICT) and health
• Public / private provision of drugs and services
• Chronic illness
www.futurehealthsystems.org
Talk to us!
www.steps-centre.org
@ stepscentre
H.MacGregor@ids.ac.uk