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IDRC will mark the 33rd annual International Development Week (IDW) with a week-long campaign examining the importance of research for development and voices from the Global South to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

The scale and impact of epidemics over the last 20 years has increased. This has deepened social inequalities, with devastating impacts on women, children and other vulnerable and marginalized groups.

IDRC-supported research on technology-facilitated gender-based violence in the Global South is expanding to more countries. It seeks to understand the extent of the violence and the factors contributing to it and to mobilize evidence for action.

IDRC is seeking a new president to build on the Centre’s success in supporting research that contributes to a more sustainable and inclusive world.

Researchers are documenting technology-facilitated gender-based violence and exploring responses in the Global South.

IDRC and several other organizations partnered with the Asia Foundation to organize the Bali Care Dialogue immediately preceding the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Bali from November 12 to 14. The dialogue aims to leverage global momentum around gender equality in the care economy while advancing the issue in the Asia-Pacific region.

A postdoctoral fellowship program for Indigenous Mexican women highlights the exceptional paths of these scientists who had everything stacked against them.

Malaria is a deadly mosquito-borne parasitic disease that affects more than 200 million people annually. The burden of disease and death is disproportionately high in sub-Saharan Africa, especially among young children.

Early in the pandemic, health workers faced many unknowns as they worked to protect communities against a new infectious threat — SARS-CoV-2. Globally, health systems needed to quickly train, equip and support health workers to provide care under increasingly difficult circumstances.

Healthcare workers have continued to provide patient care throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, often during exhaustingly long shifts and amidst the fear of becoming infected and transmitting the virus to family, friends, patients and co-workers.

The COVID-RASi trial is an international, randomized clinical trial conducted by the University of Ottawa Heart Institute that includes multiple research sites in Canada, Brazil and Mexico.

Diagnostics are critical public health tools to reduce the spread of viral infections, manage precious healthcare resources and provide population-level surveillance of surges in infection and immunity. Limited access to diagnostics represented a significant challenge in maintaining public health during the COVID-19 pandemic.