London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Becoming a parent is a major life event. It brings new responsibilities, demanding time, money and emotional resources, all coinciding with loss of sleep and with biological changes. Depression is common in new parents, affecting around a sixth of mothers and a tenth of fathers – and this matters for both of them and their babies.

Recent political changes have shifted the priorities of wealthier countries away from health, equity, and sustainable development, creating huge challenges for health and science communities worldwide. Science itself is being attacked, and scientists are afraid to speak out. In addition, unprecedented cuts have been made to international development, science and health budgets, with devastating results for health programmes across the globe. 

Reading glasses are an essential and normal part of life for many adults. Yet globally it is estimated that up to 800 million people need spectacles for close work, but do not have them.

In May 2020, England introduced a "soft" opt-out system for organ donation, following the earlier adoption of similar legislation in Wales (2015) and later Scotland (2021). The goal was to increase organ availability by presuming most adults to be willing donors unless they explicitly opted out. However, several years on, the anticipated improvements in organ donation rates have not materialised, and the implementation of the law has been shown to be more complicated than proponents had expected. What we did