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Research in ActionEconomics Food and Agriculture Governance Health Social PolicyThree years of research have generated important lessons on inclusive responses for future crises.
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Research in ActionEconomics HealthThe health, economic and social burden of tobacco in Latin America and the expected gains of tobacco taxationIncluding productivity loss burden and illicit trade effects in the estimation of tobacco attributable costs to derive optimal taxation scenarios in 8 Latin American countries.
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Research in ActionEconomics HealthUnderstanding the processes, organizations and policies to act more forcefully in favour of civil society and the environmentThe Global Tobacco Economics Consortium is strengthening the leadership of Mexico, Colombia and India to advance tobacco control policy.
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NewsDevelopment Health Food and Agriculture2023 Bentley and Hopper-Bhatia research award recipients announcedThe 2023 recipients of the Bentley and Hopper-Bhatia research awards are advancing research on gastronomy in peacebuilding and vaccine hesitancy in pastoralist communities.Date
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Research in ActionHealthLeveraging digital solutions for gender-responsive and inclusive health systemsDigital solutions are helping countries recover from COVID-19 and move toward more equitable health systems.
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NewsHealthFive projects funded by the Collaborative One Health Research Initiative on EpidemicsThe scale and impact of epidemics over the last 20 years has increased. This has deepened social inequalities, with devastating impacts on women, children and other vulnerable and marginalized groups.Date
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NewsDevelopment HealthENLACE 2022: Using evidence in policy development in Latin America and the CaribbeanThe first Latin American and Caribbean Meeting on Evidence for Policy (ENLACE 2022), organized by the Latin American and Caribbean Evidence Hub, aims to strengthen the debate on the use of evidence in public policies in the region.Date
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Research in ActionHealthPortable, low-cost hardware for decentralized COVID-19 diagnosticsDiagnostics are critical public health tools to reduce the spread of viral infections, manage precious healthcare resources and provide population-level surveillance of surges in infection and immunity. Limited access to diagnostics represented a significant challenge in maintaining public health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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NewsDevelopment HealthIDRC funding to expand pandemic response preparedness in Latin AmericaTwo leading Colombian universities have been added to the effort to build the epidemiological data-analysis tools of the future through IDRC’s grant of CAD1.9 million to Epiverse — a global collaborative of interdisciplinary experts, led by data.org, building an open-source software ecosystem.Date
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NewsDevelopment HealthSubscribe to the Partnership for Evidence and Equity in Responsive Social Systems newsletterThe Partnership for Evidence and Equity in Responsive Social Systems (PEERSS) recently released its third newsletter to highlight the exciting work that partners are doing to advance evidence-informed policymaking (EIP) in their countries.Date
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NewsHealthInvestigating risk factors contributing to COVID-19 infectionsWith funding from IDRC, a research team from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study, a large international population research effort coordinated by McMaster University’s Population Health Research Institute (PHRI), is studying why some people get COVID-19 and others do not.Date
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Research in ActionGender Health GovernanceTackling gender-based violence at work, in transit, and online
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Research in ActionGender Governance Social Policy HealthThe power of collective action to achieve gender equality
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Research in ActionHealthMeasuring tobacco-attributable costs and illicit trade effects in Latin America
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Research in ActionHealthStrengthening evidence for advancing tobacco control policyIf no action is taken, tobacco will kill more than 8 million people globally by 2030, with 80% of these deaths occurring in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).
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BooksGender HealthFeminist Advocacy, Family Law and Violence Against Women: International Perspectives
Find out how women around the world are contributing to legal reform and shaping policies to counter discriminatory legislation.
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StoryScience and Technology Development Social Policy HealthScaling ScienceA new model for optimizing the impact of research and innovation
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PerspectivesFood and Agriculture Health Governance GenderResearch plays an important role in achieving Zero Hunger
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Better maternal health needs more than just money
Better maternal health needs more than just money
“Health problems are about more than money,” says 2016 IDRC Research Award recipient Juan Carlos Rivillas. “If we want to achieve universal health coverage by 2030 — one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals — we need to take action on quality of care and inequalities in the use of health services. These are a cause of poor maternal health outcomes worldwide.”
This was Rivillas’ conclusion after his study of the relationship between maternal and infant mortality, health financing, and health system issues in his home country of Colombia. “Beyond financing, the quality of services is crucial in improving maternal and infant health,” he says.
Carrying out research and working at IDRC, “opened my mind about the importance of research for development and global strategies,” he says.
It also expanded his skills. “Most of my research experience had been using quantitative analysis,” he says. “At IDRC, I learned to develop and to implement qualitative research, and to combine both methods. I was interpreting my results when I suddenly realized I understood the problems and potential solutions more easily when I mixed methods.”
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PerspectivesDevelopment Governance Health Science and TechnologyA win-win situation: More research in partnership with the developing world