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Prof Susan Jebb and Prof Sir Charles Godfray in conversation: "Rethinking diet, weight and health policy in and after the COVID-19 pandemic"
20 Nov 20 in Videos
The current covid-19 pandemic has focussed attention on the variability in personal risk of serious illness. After age and ethnicity, one of the most important factors associated with developing serious covid complications, requiring admission to hospital or ICU, is being overweight.Excess weight has long been known to be a risk factor for ill-health, though governments have rarely encouraged weight loss...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/rethinking-diet-weight-and-health-policy
'The UK’s development strategy and the new economic and geopolitical challenges' with Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, Minister for Development and Africa
07 Mar 24 in Videos
The UK launched an international development White Paper in November 2023, setting out seven areas for action across a broad range of development themes and policy areas.
The White Paper recognises the increasingly contested world we face, with a more complicated and fractured geopolitical environment. As the UK moves into implementing this vision, it will need to navigate this.
The Minister for...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/uk-development-strategy
Professor Christopher Adam
Professor of Development Economics
Christopher Adam's research is on the macroeconomics of low-income countries, in particular those of Africa, with a focus on monetary economics and public finance; and growth and structural change in low-income countries, including in response to climate change and natural disasters. His work uses methods of quantitative macroeconomics including stochastic and deterministic general equilibrium techniques.
Christopher Adam is a Visiting Scholar...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/christopher-adam
Professor Katrina Charles
Professor of Environmental Health risks
Dr Charles' research seeks to improve access to sustainable water and sanitation systems, particularly in low-income urban settlements, employing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to tackle these complex socio-ecological and socio-technical systems.
Dr Charles is the co-director of the REACH: Improving water security for the poor programme, and leads the research on water security challenges in Ethiopia. Her work has been funded...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/katrina-charles
Professor Doug Gollin
Professor of Development Economics
Doug Gollin is Professor of Development Economics at the Oxford Department of International Development.
His research focusses on economic development and growth, with particular interests in agriculture and structural transformation. His work brings a general equilibrium perspective to issues such as: sectoral differences in productivity; the impacts of agricultural technologies; the role of transport costs in shaping spatial patterns of development...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/doug-gollin
Policy-based evidence
01 Feb 11 in Videos
Professor Steve Rayner, Director, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, speaks on how science affects policy.
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/policy-based-evidence
Seminar: Professor Vera Roos, "Older Persons’ experiences of drought: Applying the MMOGO™-method to explore indigenous knowledge practices"
12 Jun 08 in Events
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/seminar-professor-vera-roos-older-persons-experiences-of-drought-applying-the-mmogo-method-to-explore-indigenous-knowledge-practices