Sepsis is a condition where a severe infection triggers the immune system to act in a dysregulated way, attacking the organs, causing organ damage and even death. It can be triggered by any infection, and is a major global health problem, affecting over fifty million people and causing eleven million deaths per year. The World […]

Recognition that human health is affected by a wide range of ecological disruptions consequent upon climate change is a recent development, reflecting the breadth and sophistication of modern scientific knowledge. Global climate change affects human health via pathways of varying complexity, scale, and directness and with different timing. Similarly, impacts vary geographically due to both […]

Wide scale antimicrobial usage in animal farming accelerates antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) bacteria which is spread onto the human population that consume the products and the environment into which livestock farming wastes are released. Agricultural authorities need to regulate the use of antibiotics in farming, in general, so that the AMR bacteria risk is reduced.

Evidence has an important role to play in improving policy, programme and practice decisions that ultimately improve development effectiveness. However, decision-making processes are complex and evidence often competes with many other factors including interests of policymakers, politics, value systems, technical and institutional capacities, and financial constraints. This issue brief presents efforts by the Heightening institutional capacity […]