HEART Talks
HEART Talks is a series of web-based resources based around short video recordings focusing on the fields of health, education nutrition, social protection and WASH. Experts in these fields volunteer their time and expertise in exchange for the opportunity to present their ideas and share information on their subject of interest. The videos are accompanied by key papers, links to relevant documents and other resources.
In this presentation David Peters, from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses how lesson learning from responses to the recent ebola outbreak in West Africa can strengthen health systems. His presentation focuses on strengthening national health systems, rather than at the international level. The outbreak has caused over 10,000 deaths. In addition, the epidemic has caused fear… Read more
Newly developed diagnostic tools and algorithms face a number of barriers in effective implementation. Policy makers need to make rational decisions on whether to go ahead and invest in new innovations for health and how. Should a new diagnostic test replace or be used in combination with an existing method? What are the access costs… Read more
Paul Lynch is an expert on the educational inclusion of children with visual impairment and complex needs. His research is mainly focused on children in Southern and Eastern Africa. In this interview, Paul Lynch discusses early childhood development and education of children with visual impairment. His research has found that parents often do not realise… Read more
Education Consultants, Bev Fletcher and Amy Bellinger are the co-authors of the EPS PEAKS Topic Guide on Non-Traditional Financing for Education. In this interview they give an overview of the advantages and challenges of non-traditional financing methods in education. They outline the problems in financing education, what is meant by ‘non-traditional financing’ and discuss the evidence… Read more
The HEART Topic Guide on Early Childhood Development (ECD) offers brief summaries of key research, evaluations and case studies, as well as links to more specialist resources relevant to this vision for ECD. It draws on a very broad range of published research and policy studies, spanning health; nutrition; water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH); social… Read more
Dr Miriam Taegtmeyer and Dr Sally Theobald from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine recently gave a presentation to DFID advisors on understanding and developing the role of close-to-community providers of health care in preventing, diagnosing, and treating major illnesses and health conditions in rural and urban areas in Africa and Asia. They outlined findings to… Read more
In this short interview Purna Kumar Shrestha, Global Education Lead, Voluntary Services Overseas International (VSO) talks about the VSO project in Ghana ‘Tackling Education Needs Inclusively (TENI)‘. TENI aims to improve the quality of education received by more than 50,000 children in northern Ghana. The programme is specifically focused on girls and disabled children. TENI… Read more
In this short interview Pauline Rose, Professor of International Education, University of Cambridge, talks about the rights of children with disabilities to an education. As an education and development expert, Pauline discusses how disability is a key issue in education, with many children with disabilities being excluded from school. There is a paucity of evidence on how… Read more
The HEART Education Technology (edtech) Topic Guide explores the evidence on relationships between the use of edtech in education, and learning outcomes. It offers recommendations to support UK Department for International Development (DFID) advisers to strengthen the design, implementation and evaluation of edtech programmes. This video includes interviews with the lead author of the Topic Guide Tom… Read more
The HEART Education Technology (edtech) Topic Guide was launched on 13 November 2014 at Mott Macdonald/Cambridge Education in London. The Guide explores the evidence on relationships between the use of edtech in education, and learning outcomes. It offers recommendations to support UK Department for International Development (DFID) advisers to strengthen the design, implementation and evaluation of… Read more
Education Technology or edtech refers to the use of digital or electronic technologies and materials to support teaching and learning. This video shows a presentation on edtech by Niall Winters from University of Oxford. Niall contributed to a Topic Guide that was based on edtech, which was launched by HEART on 13 November 2014. In this video Niall… Read more