In November 2008, the LEAD Programme organised a public lecture by Prof.Dr. Richard E. Leakey on ‘Broad Implications of Climate Change in East Africa in terms of Human and Animal Futures’ at the Gorlaeus Laboratory of the…
Yeshanew Gheneti conducted PhD research in ethno-economics in Ghana on: Microcredit Management in Ghana: Development of Co-Operative Credit Unions among the Dagaaba. This study with its focus on the development and management of local co-operative savings and…
Complementary Experimental and Non-Experimental Validation of Traditional Medicine in Tanzania (CENEVTM, 2005). In 2006, LEAD undersigned a Letter of Intent with the Traditional Medical Research Centre in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania on Utilisation and Validation of Traditional Herbal Medicine…
In 2005, the LEAD Programme organised and coordinated the International Exhibition on ‘Jamu: Medicinal Plants for Health and Conservation in Indonesia’ in collaboration with Universitas Padjadjaran (UNPAD) in Bandung, Indonesia, the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICH)…
Anak Agung Gde Agung conducted PhD research in Bali, Indonesia from 2001-2005 on the cosmology of Tri Hita Karana and its Role in the Conservation of the Island’s Biocultural Diversity under the auspices of the LEAD Programme…
As part of the ongoing cooperation programme between LEAD at Leiden University and the National University of Singapore since 1999, the Singapore Institute of Biology (SIBiol) had requested the LEAD Programme to participate in the Commemoration of…
Since the early 2000s up to 2016, LEAD has annually been contributing to the Post-Graduate Course on Doctor-Patient Relations, coordinated by Prof.Dr. C. Lionis of the Department of Social and Family Medicine of the University of Crete…
Following previous Workshops on medical anthropology and ethnomedicine at Universitas Padjadjaran as LEAD’s main counterpart in Indonesia, in 2000 a joint Master Course was developed in Medical Anthropology and Ethnobotany (MAE). This post-graduate course encompassed a 6-months’ course…
LEAD was invited to join the Medusa Network of Institutions involved in the study of medicinal, aromatic and cosmetic (MAC) plants of the Mediterranean Region, encompassing joint ethnobotanical research in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Marocco,…
On Friday, the 24th of November 1995, a joint celebration took place in the Great Auditorium of the Academy of Leiden University on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Indonesia…