LEVE - Livelihoods in Developing Countries: Health, the Environment, and Poverty - coordinates collaboration between the Faculty of Social Sciences, Law, and Medicine, and the Centre for Development and the Environment on patterns of poverty and illness resulting from new complex risks associated with globalisation.
LEVE's research focuses on developing countries and takes a human-rights-based approach.
News
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Lancet Comission on 'Investing in health'
Mar 13, 2013 03:08 PM
Welcome to a presentation of the Lancet Commission on 'Investing in health', marking the forthcoming 20th anniversary of the World Bank's 'World development report for 1993'. March 18th, 2013.
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Guest lecture with Paul Farmer
Mar 13, 2013 01:40 PM
Paul Farmer will lecture on When Investments in Health Equity Pay Off: Avoiding False Debates in Health and Human Rights , March 20th, 2013.
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GLOBVAC Young Scientist Grant Awarded LEVE researcher
Jan 16, 2013 11:18 AM
Norwegian Research Council’s GLOBVAC Young Scientist Grant Awarded to SUM Postdoctoral Fellow Katerini Storeng for “Advocacy and policy change for health equity in low-income countries” Project
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Ritualizing change
Nov 20, 2012 02:04 PM
A new research project explores the ways in which ritual acts, gestures and performances help people and communities to respond to crisis, and to seek out alternatives for the challenges they face.
