What   : Angola is still not landmine-free despite progress led by international NGOs. The socio-economic impact of landmines in rural areas is high. 

Angola's efforts have been hit by the economic downturn, though the UK is to commit £100 million to mine action globally over the next three years,

See Network website for more information. 
 

Interdisciplinary approaches to inequality 

When  : 27th April, 2017 : 09.30 - 17.15
Where : LondonWhat   : This is the Biennial Conference of the London International Development Centre. 

Final programme now available 
 

Global Mental Health and Psychosocial Support 

When  : 5th - 6th June, 2017 
Where : London

What   : Organised by the King's Health Partnership for people interested in mental health, this conference will provide a number of parallel symposia on topics such as: reverse innovation and mutual learning; interventions in global mental health and psychosocial support; sustainability and scaling up; models of health partnerships; and helping the helpers.

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Faculty of Public Health  Annual Conference

When  : 20th-21st June, 2017
Where : Telford International Centre. 

• What   : The Faculty of Publilc Health's Africa Special Interest Group (PH Africa) is hosting an interactive session at the Faculty's annual conference to review the role of UK Public Health in supporting low and middle income countries to tackle non-communicable diseases. 

• What   : After two years working with the American Public Health Film Festival Chairs, the Faculty of Public Health  Specialist Interest Group in Film will provide a chance to view film excerpts, hear from an expert panel of film makers/producers and public health professionals.

Conference programme 
 

RSTMH  : Medal Winners Event

When  : 13th September, 2017 : 17.00 - 20.00
Where : London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

What   : This event recognises the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene's medal winners from 2016. The key note speech will be given by Baron Peter Piot, who was awarded the prestigious Manson Medal. Dr Kebide Deribe, who won the Society's first emerging Leaders Award, will be among others presenting at the event. 

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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have issued a joint call for innovative and transformative solutions to build more effective supply chains in low- and middle-income countries around the world. 

Ensuring Effective Health Supply Chains: A Grand Challenge for Development aims to address key challenges faced by supply chains in communities with limited resources. More effective supply chains can enable delivery of supplies, services and treatments that have the potential to save more than 6 million lives in the next 5 years. 

They seek solutions that are daring in premise and different from the approaches currently used. The ideas must be translatable to practical interventions that are accessible in resource-limited settings and have the potential to be scaled up or reproduced in multiple settings. 

Bangladeshi rural communities are often strongly patriarchal. Women in these communities, particularly those suffering from domestic violence, find it difficult to make crimes public.

If they go to a local leader or court, they are often seen as bringing shame on their family. If they do bring a case, the legal system can work against them. The traditional manner of resolving disputes, through a committee of respected elites (or, shalish), is often male-dominated and oppressive for women.

To tackle these challenges, the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) provided £17 million in funding over a five-year period to local organisations aiming to support community legal services (CLS).

These organisations would have two main objectives: raise legal awareness and provide support to people with disputes – either by helping to resolve the disputes directly, or by referring them to legal aid. Many of those who brought disputes were women. Many suffered from domestic violence.

There is no consensus on what violent extremism is and how best to prevent or counter it. The term ‘violent extremism’ has become a catch-all for a number of phenomena, and there is considerable variation in how terminology is used. Violent extremism conflates belief and use of force. Critics also see the use of ‘extremist’ as always politically motivated: it can be used to denounce those that threaten the political status quo. However, its use to describe primarily Islamist groups has obscured the fact that extremist beliefs and support for violence are found across different cultures, religions, and political situations.

This topic guide introduces conceptual and practical approaches to violent extremism in different contexts. It introduces explanations of violent extremism put forward by different disciplines, how these approach the study of violent extremism and prominent myths and contradictions.

• Strategies for halting the rise of multidrug resistant TB epidemics: assessing the effect of early case detection and isolation
• ‘Sustaining the DOTS’: stakeholders’ experience of a social protection intervention for TB in Nigeria 
• The yield and feasibility of integrated screening for TB, diabetes and HIV in four public hospitals in Ethiopia

• Biodiversity loss and the ecology of infectious disease (Planetary Health) 

• Health co-benefits of climate action (Planetary Health) 
• Impact of a changing climate on global stability, wellbeing, and planetary health (Planetary Health) 

• Food systems, nutrition, health and the environment (Planetary Health) 
• From big to small: the significance of smallholder farms in the global food system (Planetary Health)
• Efficiency, sufficiency, and consistency for sustainable healthy food (Planetary Health)
• Farming and the geography of nutrient production for human use: a transdisciplinary analysis (Planetary Health 
• Projected health effects of realistic dietary changes to address freshwater constraints in India: a modelling study (Planetary Health) 

• Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer (Closing date 24th April, 2017) 

• Senior Partnership Manager : East Asia (Closing date 26th April, 2017) 

• Principal/Senior or Research Fellow (Closing date 27th April, 2017) 

• Full or Associate Professor Senior Consultant (Closing date 30th April, 2017) 

• Clinical Associate Professor (Nagasaki - London) : Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (Closing date 28th April, 2017) 
• Research Fellow - DfID funded Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL) (Closing date 19th May, 2017) 
• Research Fellow - LINEA IIFaculty of Public Health & Policy (Gender Violence and Health) (Closing date 22nd May, 2017) 

• Programme Associate Africa (Closing date N/A)