Wednesday 22 October 2014

Melissa Leach on Ebola & inequality – lecture text & audio

Some materials are now available from the recent Sussex Development Lecture on Equality, Sustainability, Security: Interlaced challenges in a global development era by former STEPS Director Melissa Leach. The text is available to download below as a PDF, and you can listen to Melissa's lecture online, courtesy of the Institute of Development Studies.

In the lecture, Melissa uses Ebola as a lens to look at how inequalities, unsustainability and insecurity can interact, enhanced by misguided interventions, to render people and places deeply vulnerable. Addressing these interactions must become central to a renewed vision of development for all.


Further reading
Ebola: difficult questions for development blogpost by Ian Scoones, 13 October 2014
Our resources on Ebola and other animal-to-human diseases