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Celebrating World Health Day 2014

On the 65th World Health Day, we reflect on the challenges posed by vector-borne diseases. Today is World Health Day. An annual event since 1950,…

World Water Day 2014

March 22nd marks World Water Day 2014, a day which advocates for the sustainable management of the world’s water resources. Dating back to 1992 when the…

Commonwealth Day 2014

Commonwealth Day is the annual celebration of the 53 Commonwealth Nations held on the second Monday in March every year. The day is marked to celebrate the…

Global food, agriculture and land use: sharing insights from our series

After the end of our three year, six part conference series on global food and agriculture systems, we launch a set of resources to share…

2013: a year in review

  This timeline looks back at some of the major events that took place in 2013.   February On…

In the midst of history in South Africa

A conference on scaling up the ‘treatment as prevention’ model of combatting HIV and AIDS took us to Cape Town during an historic period for…

Learning from friends – the impact of population ageing in Berlin

The UK and Germany will benefit from each other’s experience with public policy in the context of population ageing. Demographic ageing: policy implications and strategies…

Finance for faith, health and development

Our conference; co-hosted with Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty (CIFA), originally planned for December 6-8th this year, has now been postponed. Finance for…

China’s reform priorities stress ‘putting people first’

Towards prosperity: implications and opportunities of the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of China (WP1196) Sunday 16 – Tuesday 18 December 2012   Adela…

Highlights from 2012

Over the past 12 months, we have held events in a number of overseas locations as well as here at Wiston House in Sussex. In…