In 2013, LEAD took the initiative to extend the further cooperation with Kanisa La Mennonite Tanzania (KMT) in Musoma, Mara Region of Tanzania, with the aim of the ‘Development of Kisare College of Health Sciences’ in terms…
The study about paraji (Traditional Birth Attendants – TBA) and bidan (Community Midwives -CMW) in Rancaekek, a subdistrict in West Java, Indonesia, aimed to contribute to the knowledge and understanding about the relationships between traditional and modern…
In 2009, LEAD joined the Research Project Assessing the Over-The-Counter Medications in Primary Care in Seven South-European Countries (OTC/SOCIOMED), coordinated by Prof.Dr. C. Lionis of the Department of Social and Family Medicine of the University of Crete….
In November 2010, the LEAD Programme organised a public lecture by Dr. Jane Goodall on Leiden University Revisited: Celebration Fifty Years of Gombe Field Research in Tanzania at the Gorlaeus Laboratory of the Faculty of Science, attracting…
On Thursday, the 4th of November 2010, a joint celebration took place in the Great Hall of the Gorleaus Laboratoria of the Faculty of Science of Leiden University on the occasion of the 65th Anniversary of the…
Siti Chaerani Djen Amar conducted PhD research in Indonesia on Gunem Catur in the Sunda Region of West Java: Indigenous Communication on the MAC Plant Knowledge and Practice within the Arisan in Lembang under the auspices of…
In addition to the earliest cooperation with Richard Leakey, in 2008, LEAD set up the Human Evolution and Development Programme (HEAD) in collaboration with Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya (Prof.Dr. R.E. Leakey) and Universitas Padjadjaran in Indonesia…
Liesbeth Nathalie Leurs conducted PhD research in Bali on Medicinal, Aromatic and Cosmetic (MAC) plants for Community Health and Bio-Cultural Diversity Conservation in Indonesia. The general aim of this ethno-botanical study is to document, describe and analyse…
Johann Angerler conducted PhD research in Indoneia on: Bius, Parbaringin und Paniaran. Über Demokratie und Religion bei den Tobabatak Nordsumatras. This investigation is an attempt to gain a better understanding of the religious and socio-political organization of…
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…