Right from Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilization we have arrived at the Clash of Crisis for our generation. This crisis is built around extreme weather […]
Adaptation gap 2020 and the issues of climate change-disaster-health nexus
The adaptation gap report 2020 presents glaring findings related to how far nations have come with regard to achieving and honouring the commitment to climate […]
Mental health issues will be the world’s next pandemic: Here’s why
The traditional approach to health has always been focused on the physical health and hence, the development of medicines and treatments were focused on the […]
Food insecurity rising with climate change – Generational crisis unfolding
Climate change has triggered a crisis of a generation which also struggles with natural disasters, public health challenges and also a pandemic like COVID-19. The […]
The Need to Promote Translational Public Health through public health proficient NGOs
Developing countries with weaker health systems find it challenging to provide equitable, affordable and optimal healthcare to its population due to conflicting developmental priorities. In […]
The Disaster And Health Nexus Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Governments can protect vulnerable communities
Asif Ali (name changed) and his wife live with three children in a rural township bordering India and Bangladesh. Asif lost his job as a […]
Mainstreaming social protection amidst cascading risks
One of the starkest stories of our era belongs to the year 2020 where the novel coronavirus has disrupted normalcy, hijacked social protection from a […]
South Africa’s National Development Plan 2030 will need to put cascading risk at the heart of development
Droughts in the Western Cape and wildfires along with changing vector bionomics is evidently visible in the South African region. The impact of global climate […]
Achieving sustainability for regional co-operation in the Asia and Pacific
In a few decades from now when historians attempt to revisit the time of 2020, they will refer to our age of COVID-19 as one […]