Posts by Alessia Gasco
Webinar: Action Against Stunting Day
Join us on 8 September as we bring together policymakers, donors and academics in our inaugural Action Against Stunting Day event. Together, these key actors can commit to promoting research and interventions to reduce stunting by 2025.
Read MoreFirst Action Against Stunting Day
#StandUpToStunting Last year, 149 million children under the age of five were stunted. Of these children, more than half live in Asia and a further 40% live in Africa. Some areas are worse affected than others. In South Asia and in Western Africa, 32% and 29% of children under five are stunted respectively. Some children are…
Read MoreWorld Breastfeeding Week Celebrations
Webinar to celebrate the World Breastfeeding Awareness Week.
Read MoreA Career in International Development: Panel Discussion with Research Fellows from the Hub
LIDC and the Action Against Stunting Hub are holding an online career event for students with an interest in international development who want to find out more about a career in academia.
Read MoreReady for school?
This seminar will focus on the ongoing collaborative work across India, Indonesia, and Senegal to adapt a classroom observation grid (MELE) to measure key characteristics of classroom environments and educational quality.
Read MoreHow to evaluate impact in intensely interdisciplinary research
CEDIL is hosting a webinar to bring together some Action Against Stunting Hub representatives and its research partners to look at how they tackle the question of evaluating the long-term impacts of their research.
Read MoreIs Covid-19 overshadowing India’s child malnutrition crisis?
In this webinar, Patralekha Chatterjee, award-winning journalist-columnist, will share her analysis of the fifth National Family Health Survey and explore how the Covid-19 pandemic might impact an already-fragile state of child nutrition.
Read MoreStatement on the £120m UKRI funding cut by Professor Claire Heffernan
Statement on the £120m UKRI funding cut by Professor Claire Heffernan, PI of the Action Against Stunting Hub and Director of the London International Development Centre Evidence-based intervention is key to reaching the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The drastic UKRI budget cuts – announced on 11 March – are jeopardising our chances to…
Read MoreSaving SDG2: Networking Event
A great opportunity to meet like-minded people and share your vision on challenges and solutions
Read MoreForging a Solution to Environmental AMR in Kenya
The event will facilitate interactive peer discussions and knowledge exchange to explore local expertise for construction, installation, testing and maintenance of an innovative filter made from materials that are readily available in Kenya
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