Whether it’s hand hygiene, physical distancing, disinfecting surfaces, wearing masks, or reaching out to protect the most vulnerable, behavior change has a key role to play in tackling the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. This brief from the World Bank, London School of Hygiene & Tropical...

Randomized trials of complex public health interventions generally aim to identify what works, accrediting specific intervention ‘products’ as effective. This approach often fails to give sufficient consideration to how intervention components interact with each other and with local context....

Current youth work approaches that respond to adolescent drug and alcohol use are not working, say Adam Fletcher and Chris Bonell. They call for a shift in policy and practice to embrace 'detached', street-based youth work as a method to reduce the harm and marginalisation that drug and alcohol...