What Policymakers Can Learn from Effect of Covid Lockdowns on Violence Against Women and Girls
What evidence do we have of how violence against women and girls increased or changed during the Covid period, and what are the policy implications?
Article type: Event report
The 2022 monkeypox outbreak: considerations for public policy and social science research
Social science questions related to Monkeypox can be addressed through both the synthesis of contextually relevant knowledge, as well as the conducting of new, primary research. In order to facilitate a discussion and to...
Mental Health in the City: Five Key Takeaways
IPPO Cities convened a policy roundtable to explore insights from the pandemic for city policymakers around mental health. The event discussed how mental health is critical for a place’s productivity, resilience, and economic development,...
IPPO Cities at the World Urban Forum: Key Takeaways
Carla Washbourne reports from the World Urban Forum in Katowice, Poland on IPPO Cities’ panel on urban observatories. Carla Washbourne IPPO Cities co-organised a global networking event for urban observatories at the World Urban...
Impact of the Pandemic on the Lives and Mental Health of People with Intellectual Disabilities
Directions for future policy development to help mitigate the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on the 1.5 million people with learning disabilities in the UK.
Implementing a Minimum Income Guarantee in Scotland
The Scottish Government is committed to commencing work in the current Parliament to provide a Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) for all, incorporating the idea of basic services, such as childcare or the NHS.
Closing the Close the Gap between Science Push and Policy Pull
Covid-19 and other global crises are forcing us to the rethink the relationship between science and policy.
Two Years On: Cities Policy Roundtable Event Report
Two years after the UK went into lockdown, IPPO held a day-long series of sessions on March 24, 2022 to examine what lessons we must learn for future policymaking. The video of the special...
Two Years On: The Shadow Pandemic of Mental Health Decline
The pandemic is far from over there and there is a need to invest in public health supports to address its effects on mental health.
Two Years On: Looking at Policy Responses Across the World
Speakers from around the world share diverse perspectives on their experiences of how governments and communities handled the pandemic, and what they had learned as a result.
