Crime And (No) Punishment: Why Africa’s Ports Are Vulnerable To Counterfeit COVID Vaccines 18/02/2021 Darren Taylor/Bhekisisa MOMBASA, KENYA – Africa’s ports are vulnerable to crime and corruption. Now they’re set to be the main thoroughfare for COVID vaccines entering the continent. Here’s why we need a better strategy to curb potential counterfeits coming through. Black-green tears of moss streak the facades of once-white buildings. The city is a maze of narrow […] Continue reading -> Europe To Establish Emergency Biodefense Plan To Respond To Coronavirus Variants – More Local Manufacturing For Rapid Scale Up Of New Vaccines & Boosters 17/02/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay The European Commission will establish an emergency biodefense plan to prevent, mitigate and respond to new variants of the coronavirus that are supercharging transmission and threatening the performance of available vaccines. Creation of a voluntary licensing mechanism involving local manufacturers is one of the strategies proposed in the plan to hasten the production of updated […] Continue reading -> United Kingdom, Norway & UNICEF Reaffirm Calls for “Global Cease Fire” in UN Security Council Open Debate on COVID-19 Vaccines Access 17/02/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The United Kingdom, Norway and UNICEF on Wednesday appealed to world leaders to give stronger backing to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ call in March 2020 for a “global cease-fire” in order to beat the COVID-19 pandemic and get vaccines to tens of millions of undocumented migrants and refugees, as well as people living in […] Continue reading -> Reimagining Public Health 17/02/2021 Jose Luis Castro The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the profound dangers of having social, economic and health care systems that marginalize public health. To go forward, we must start by looking back. We must build a stronger foundation with better systems that can prevent future pandemics and also weave health into all aspects of society, from our workplaces […] Continue reading -> South African Health Workers To Get J&J Vaccine As Part of Implementation Trial – AstraZeneca Vaccines Will Be Offered To African Union 16/02/2021 Kerry Cullinan Cape Town – The first South African health workers will be vaccinated against SARS-CoV2 on Wednesday with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, instead of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which was recently shown to be unable to stop mild or moderate infection against the B.1351 (501Y.V2) variant dominant in South Africa. In a hastily assembled Plan B, […] Continue reading -> The Nigerian Harvard Alumnus Who Could Make World Trade Organization More Relevant…And Less Boring 15/02/2021 Paul Adepoju IBADAN, NIGERIA – She is happy to be breaking World Health Organization (WTO) ceilings for women and Africans – but has always been a disrupter and technocrat who is used to making changes that stand the test of time and put those in need at the center — even when it is unpopular. Beginning on 1 […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine Manufacturers Get WHO OK, Opening Door To COVAX Distribution – WHO Deflects Experts’ Criticism About China Trip To Explore Vaccine Origins 15/02/2021 Kerry Cullinan The AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines being produced by the Serum Institute of India and SK Bio in South Korea were listed for emergency use by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday. Emergency use listing (EUL), which involves experts assessing their safety, efficacy and quality, is a prerequisite for vaccines before they can be distributed by […] Continue reading -> Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala Pledges To Make Health & Climate Major WTO Priorities – Following Historic Election as Director General 15/02/2021 Paul Adepoju & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nigeria’s former finance minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has become the first woman and first African to be elected as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In a press conference just hours after her historic election, she signalled that she would reboot the WTO’s mission, making both health and climate twin cornerstones of global trade […] Continue reading -> Lancet: Pandemic Containment Requires Increased Vaccine Production, Affordable Pricing & Global Allocation; WHO Calls For Tech Transfer To Scale Up Manufacturing 14/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The contribution COVID-19 vaccines can make to beating the pandemic will depend on the extent to which they are produced at scale, priced affordably, and deployed globally, says the first peer reviewed study on equitable access to vaccines, published in The Lancet on Friday. The Lancet article comes in the wake of a joint appeal […] Continue reading -> Big Dams and Climate Change Drive Uttarakhand India Avalanche – Costing Lives Immediately 14/02/2021 Disha Shetty PUNE, INDIA – For Anjal Prakash, a climate scientist based in India, the flash floods in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand this past week did not come as a surprise. “The writing was on the wall,” said Prakash, a research director at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, of the 7 February rockslide and avalanche […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. 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Europe To Establish Emergency Biodefense Plan To Respond To Coronavirus Variants – More Local Manufacturing For Rapid Scale Up Of New Vaccines & Boosters 17/02/2021 Svĕt Lustig Vijay The European Commission will establish an emergency biodefense plan to prevent, mitigate and respond to new variants of the coronavirus that are supercharging transmission and threatening the performance of available vaccines. Creation of a voluntary licensing mechanism involving local manufacturers is one of the strategies proposed in the plan to hasten the production of updated […] Continue reading -> United Kingdom, Norway & UNICEF Reaffirm Calls for “Global Cease Fire” in UN Security Council Open Debate on COVID-19 Vaccines Access 17/02/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The United Kingdom, Norway and UNICEF on Wednesday appealed to world leaders to give stronger backing to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ call in March 2020 for a “global cease-fire” in order to beat the COVID-19 pandemic and get vaccines to tens of millions of undocumented migrants and refugees, as well as people living in […] Continue reading -> Reimagining Public Health 17/02/2021 Jose Luis Castro The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the profound dangers of having social, economic and health care systems that marginalize public health. To go forward, we must start by looking back. We must build a stronger foundation with better systems that can prevent future pandemics and also weave health into all aspects of society, from our workplaces […] Continue reading -> South African Health Workers To Get J&J Vaccine As Part of Implementation Trial – AstraZeneca Vaccines Will Be Offered To African Union 16/02/2021 Kerry Cullinan Cape Town – The first South African health workers will be vaccinated against SARS-CoV2 on Wednesday with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, instead of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which was recently shown to be unable to stop mild or moderate infection against the B.1351 (501Y.V2) variant dominant in South Africa. In a hastily assembled Plan B, […] Continue reading -> The Nigerian Harvard Alumnus Who Could Make World Trade Organization More Relevant…And Less Boring 15/02/2021 Paul Adepoju IBADAN, NIGERIA – She is happy to be breaking World Health Organization (WTO) ceilings for women and Africans – but has always been a disrupter and technocrat who is used to making changes that stand the test of time and put those in need at the center — even when it is unpopular. Beginning on 1 […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine Manufacturers Get WHO OK, Opening Door To COVAX Distribution – WHO Deflects Experts’ Criticism About China Trip To Explore Vaccine Origins 15/02/2021 Kerry Cullinan The AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines being produced by the Serum Institute of India and SK Bio in South Korea were listed for emergency use by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday. Emergency use listing (EUL), which involves experts assessing their safety, efficacy and quality, is a prerequisite for vaccines before they can be distributed by […] Continue reading -> Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala Pledges To Make Health & Climate Major WTO Priorities – Following Historic Election as Director General 15/02/2021 Paul Adepoju & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nigeria’s former finance minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has become the first woman and first African to be elected as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In a press conference just hours after her historic election, she signalled that she would reboot the WTO’s mission, making both health and climate twin cornerstones of global trade […] Continue reading -> Lancet: Pandemic Containment Requires Increased Vaccine Production, Affordable Pricing & Global Allocation; WHO Calls For Tech Transfer To Scale Up Manufacturing 14/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The contribution COVID-19 vaccines can make to beating the pandemic will depend on the extent to which they are produced at scale, priced affordably, and deployed globally, says the first peer reviewed study on equitable access to vaccines, published in The Lancet on Friday. The Lancet article comes in the wake of a joint appeal […] Continue reading -> Big Dams and Climate Change Drive Uttarakhand India Avalanche – Costing Lives Immediately 14/02/2021 Disha Shetty PUNE, INDIA – For Anjal Prakash, a climate scientist based in India, the flash floods in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand this past week did not come as a surprise. “The writing was on the wall,” said Prakash, a research director at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, of the 7 February rockslide and avalanche […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. 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United Kingdom, Norway & UNICEF Reaffirm Calls for “Global Cease Fire” in UN Security Council Open Debate on COVID-19 Vaccines Access 17/02/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher The United Kingdom, Norway and UNICEF on Wednesday appealed to world leaders to give stronger backing to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ call in March 2020 for a “global cease-fire” in order to beat the COVID-19 pandemic and get vaccines to tens of millions of undocumented migrants and refugees, as well as people living in […] Continue reading -> Reimagining Public Health 17/02/2021 Jose Luis Castro The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the profound dangers of having social, economic and health care systems that marginalize public health. To go forward, we must start by looking back. We must build a stronger foundation with better systems that can prevent future pandemics and also weave health into all aspects of society, from our workplaces […] Continue reading -> South African Health Workers To Get J&J Vaccine As Part of Implementation Trial – AstraZeneca Vaccines Will Be Offered To African Union 16/02/2021 Kerry Cullinan Cape Town – The first South African health workers will be vaccinated against SARS-CoV2 on Wednesday with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, instead of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which was recently shown to be unable to stop mild or moderate infection against the B.1351 (501Y.V2) variant dominant in South Africa. In a hastily assembled Plan B, […] Continue reading -> The Nigerian Harvard Alumnus Who Could Make World Trade Organization More Relevant…And Less Boring 15/02/2021 Paul Adepoju IBADAN, NIGERIA – She is happy to be breaking World Health Organization (WTO) ceilings for women and Africans – but has always been a disrupter and technocrat who is used to making changes that stand the test of time and put those in need at the center — even when it is unpopular. Beginning on 1 […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine Manufacturers Get WHO OK, Opening Door To COVAX Distribution – WHO Deflects Experts’ Criticism About China Trip To Explore Vaccine Origins 15/02/2021 Kerry Cullinan The AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines being produced by the Serum Institute of India and SK Bio in South Korea were listed for emergency use by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday. Emergency use listing (EUL), which involves experts assessing their safety, efficacy and quality, is a prerequisite for vaccines before they can be distributed by […] Continue reading -> Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala Pledges To Make Health & Climate Major WTO Priorities – Following Historic Election as Director General 15/02/2021 Paul Adepoju & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nigeria’s former finance minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has become the first woman and first African to be elected as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In a press conference just hours after her historic election, she signalled that she would reboot the WTO’s mission, making both health and climate twin cornerstones of global trade […] Continue reading -> Lancet: Pandemic Containment Requires Increased Vaccine Production, Affordable Pricing & Global Allocation; WHO Calls For Tech Transfer To Scale Up Manufacturing 14/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The contribution COVID-19 vaccines can make to beating the pandemic will depend on the extent to which they are produced at scale, priced affordably, and deployed globally, says the first peer reviewed study on equitable access to vaccines, published in The Lancet on Friday. The Lancet article comes in the wake of a joint appeal […] Continue reading -> Big Dams and Climate Change Drive Uttarakhand India Avalanche – Costing Lives Immediately 14/02/2021 Disha Shetty PUNE, INDIA – For Anjal Prakash, a climate scientist based in India, the flash floods in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand this past week did not come as a surprise. “The writing was on the wall,” said Prakash, a research director at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, of the 7 February rockslide and avalanche […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
Reimagining Public Health 17/02/2021 Jose Luis Castro The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the profound dangers of having social, economic and health care systems that marginalize public health. To go forward, we must start by looking back. We must build a stronger foundation with better systems that can prevent future pandemics and also weave health into all aspects of society, from our workplaces […] Continue reading -> South African Health Workers To Get J&J Vaccine As Part of Implementation Trial – AstraZeneca Vaccines Will Be Offered To African Union 16/02/2021 Kerry Cullinan Cape Town – The first South African health workers will be vaccinated against SARS-CoV2 on Wednesday with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, instead of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which was recently shown to be unable to stop mild or moderate infection against the B.1351 (501Y.V2) variant dominant in South Africa. In a hastily assembled Plan B, […] Continue reading -> The Nigerian Harvard Alumnus Who Could Make World Trade Organization More Relevant…And Less Boring 15/02/2021 Paul Adepoju IBADAN, NIGERIA – She is happy to be breaking World Health Organization (WTO) ceilings for women and Africans – but has always been a disrupter and technocrat who is used to making changes that stand the test of time and put those in need at the center — even when it is unpopular. Beginning on 1 […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine Manufacturers Get WHO OK, Opening Door To COVAX Distribution – WHO Deflects Experts’ Criticism About China Trip To Explore Vaccine Origins 15/02/2021 Kerry Cullinan The AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines being produced by the Serum Institute of India and SK Bio in South Korea were listed for emergency use by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday. Emergency use listing (EUL), which involves experts assessing their safety, efficacy and quality, is a prerequisite for vaccines before they can be distributed by […] Continue reading -> Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala Pledges To Make Health & Climate Major WTO Priorities – Following Historic Election as Director General 15/02/2021 Paul Adepoju & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nigeria’s former finance minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has become the first woman and first African to be elected as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In a press conference just hours after her historic election, she signalled that she would reboot the WTO’s mission, making both health and climate twin cornerstones of global trade […] Continue reading -> Lancet: Pandemic Containment Requires Increased Vaccine Production, Affordable Pricing & Global Allocation; WHO Calls For Tech Transfer To Scale Up Manufacturing 14/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The contribution COVID-19 vaccines can make to beating the pandemic will depend on the extent to which they are produced at scale, priced affordably, and deployed globally, says the first peer reviewed study on equitable access to vaccines, published in The Lancet on Friday. The Lancet article comes in the wake of a joint appeal […] Continue reading -> Big Dams and Climate Change Drive Uttarakhand India Avalanche – Costing Lives Immediately 14/02/2021 Disha Shetty PUNE, INDIA – For Anjal Prakash, a climate scientist based in India, the flash floods in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand this past week did not come as a surprise. “The writing was on the wall,” said Prakash, a research director at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, of the 7 February rockslide and avalanche […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
South African Health Workers To Get J&J Vaccine As Part of Implementation Trial – AstraZeneca Vaccines Will Be Offered To African Union 16/02/2021 Kerry Cullinan Cape Town – The first South African health workers will be vaccinated against SARS-CoV2 on Wednesday with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, instead of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which was recently shown to be unable to stop mild or moderate infection against the B.1351 (501Y.V2) variant dominant in South Africa. In a hastily assembled Plan B, […] Continue reading -> The Nigerian Harvard Alumnus Who Could Make World Trade Organization More Relevant…And Less Boring 15/02/2021 Paul Adepoju IBADAN, NIGERIA – She is happy to be breaking World Health Organization (WTO) ceilings for women and Africans – but has always been a disrupter and technocrat who is used to making changes that stand the test of time and put those in need at the center — even when it is unpopular. Beginning on 1 […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine Manufacturers Get WHO OK, Opening Door To COVAX Distribution – WHO Deflects Experts’ Criticism About China Trip To Explore Vaccine Origins 15/02/2021 Kerry Cullinan The AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines being produced by the Serum Institute of India and SK Bio in South Korea were listed for emergency use by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday. Emergency use listing (EUL), which involves experts assessing their safety, efficacy and quality, is a prerequisite for vaccines before they can be distributed by […] Continue reading -> Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala Pledges To Make Health & Climate Major WTO Priorities – Following Historic Election as Director General 15/02/2021 Paul Adepoju & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nigeria’s former finance minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has become the first woman and first African to be elected as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In a press conference just hours after her historic election, she signalled that she would reboot the WTO’s mission, making both health and climate twin cornerstones of global trade […] Continue reading -> Lancet: Pandemic Containment Requires Increased Vaccine Production, Affordable Pricing & Global Allocation; WHO Calls For Tech Transfer To Scale Up Manufacturing 14/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The contribution COVID-19 vaccines can make to beating the pandemic will depend on the extent to which they are produced at scale, priced affordably, and deployed globally, says the first peer reviewed study on equitable access to vaccines, published in The Lancet on Friday. The Lancet article comes in the wake of a joint appeal […] Continue reading -> Big Dams and Climate Change Drive Uttarakhand India Avalanche – Costing Lives Immediately 14/02/2021 Disha Shetty PUNE, INDIA – For Anjal Prakash, a climate scientist based in India, the flash floods in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand this past week did not come as a surprise. “The writing was on the wall,” said Prakash, a research director at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, of the 7 February rockslide and avalanche […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
The Nigerian Harvard Alumnus Who Could Make World Trade Organization More Relevant…And Less Boring 15/02/2021 Paul Adepoju IBADAN, NIGERIA – She is happy to be breaking World Health Organization (WTO) ceilings for women and Africans – but has always been a disrupter and technocrat who is used to making changes that stand the test of time and put those in need at the center — even when it is unpopular. Beginning on 1 […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine Manufacturers Get WHO OK, Opening Door To COVAX Distribution – WHO Deflects Experts’ Criticism About China Trip To Explore Vaccine Origins 15/02/2021 Kerry Cullinan The AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines being produced by the Serum Institute of India and SK Bio in South Korea were listed for emergency use by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday. Emergency use listing (EUL), which involves experts assessing their safety, efficacy and quality, is a prerequisite for vaccines before they can be distributed by […] Continue reading -> Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala Pledges To Make Health & Climate Major WTO Priorities – Following Historic Election as Director General 15/02/2021 Paul Adepoju & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nigeria’s former finance minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has become the first woman and first African to be elected as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In a press conference just hours after her historic election, she signalled that she would reboot the WTO’s mission, making both health and climate twin cornerstones of global trade […] Continue reading -> Lancet: Pandemic Containment Requires Increased Vaccine Production, Affordable Pricing & Global Allocation; WHO Calls For Tech Transfer To Scale Up Manufacturing 14/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The contribution COVID-19 vaccines can make to beating the pandemic will depend on the extent to which they are produced at scale, priced affordably, and deployed globally, says the first peer reviewed study on equitable access to vaccines, published in The Lancet on Friday. The Lancet article comes in the wake of a joint appeal […] Continue reading -> Big Dams and Climate Change Drive Uttarakhand India Avalanche – Costing Lives Immediately 14/02/2021 Disha Shetty PUNE, INDIA – For Anjal Prakash, a climate scientist based in India, the flash floods in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand this past week did not come as a surprise. “The writing was on the wall,” said Prakash, a research director at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, of the 7 February rockslide and avalanche […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine Manufacturers Get WHO OK, Opening Door To COVAX Distribution – WHO Deflects Experts’ Criticism About China Trip To Explore Vaccine Origins 15/02/2021 Kerry Cullinan The AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines being produced by the Serum Institute of India and SK Bio in South Korea were listed for emergency use by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday. Emergency use listing (EUL), which involves experts assessing their safety, efficacy and quality, is a prerequisite for vaccines before they can be distributed by […] Continue reading -> Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala Pledges To Make Health & Climate Major WTO Priorities – Following Historic Election as Director General 15/02/2021 Paul Adepoju & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nigeria’s former finance minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has become the first woman and first African to be elected as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In a press conference just hours after her historic election, she signalled that she would reboot the WTO’s mission, making both health and climate twin cornerstones of global trade […] Continue reading -> Lancet: Pandemic Containment Requires Increased Vaccine Production, Affordable Pricing & Global Allocation; WHO Calls For Tech Transfer To Scale Up Manufacturing 14/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The contribution COVID-19 vaccines can make to beating the pandemic will depend on the extent to which they are produced at scale, priced affordably, and deployed globally, says the first peer reviewed study on equitable access to vaccines, published in The Lancet on Friday. The Lancet article comes in the wake of a joint appeal […] Continue reading -> Big Dams and Climate Change Drive Uttarakhand India Avalanche – Costing Lives Immediately 14/02/2021 Disha Shetty PUNE, INDIA – For Anjal Prakash, a climate scientist based in India, the flash floods in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand this past week did not come as a surprise. “The writing was on the wall,” said Prakash, a research director at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, of the 7 February rockslide and avalanche […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala Pledges To Make Health & Climate Major WTO Priorities – Following Historic Election as Director General 15/02/2021 Paul Adepoju & Elaine Ruth Fletcher Nigeria’s former finance minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has become the first woman and first African to be elected as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In a press conference just hours after her historic election, she signalled that she would reboot the WTO’s mission, making both health and climate twin cornerstones of global trade […] Continue reading -> Lancet: Pandemic Containment Requires Increased Vaccine Production, Affordable Pricing & Global Allocation; WHO Calls For Tech Transfer To Scale Up Manufacturing 14/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The contribution COVID-19 vaccines can make to beating the pandemic will depend on the extent to which they are produced at scale, priced affordably, and deployed globally, says the first peer reviewed study on equitable access to vaccines, published in The Lancet on Friday. The Lancet article comes in the wake of a joint appeal […] Continue reading -> Big Dams and Climate Change Drive Uttarakhand India Avalanche – Costing Lives Immediately 14/02/2021 Disha Shetty PUNE, INDIA – For Anjal Prakash, a climate scientist based in India, the flash floods in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand this past week did not come as a surprise. “The writing was on the wall,” said Prakash, a research director at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, of the 7 February rockslide and avalanche […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment.
Lancet: Pandemic Containment Requires Increased Vaccine Production, Affordable Pricing & Global Allocation; WHO Calls For Tech Transfer To Scale Up Manufacturing 14/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The contribution COVID-19 vaccines can make to beating the pandemic will depend on the extent to which they are produced at scale, priced affordably, and deployed globally, says the first peer reviewed study on equitable access to vaccines, published in The Lancet on Friday. The Lancet article comes in the wake of a joint appeal […] Continue reading -> Big Dams and Climate Change Drive Uttarakhand India Avalanche – Costing Lives Immediately 14/02/2021 Disha Shetty PUNE, INDIA – For Anjal Prakash, a climate scientist based in India, the flash floods in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand this past week did not come as a surprise. “The writing was on the wall,” said Prakash, a research director at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, of the 7 February rockslide and avalanche […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts This site uses cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. Cookies enable us to collect information that helps us personalise your experience and improve the functionality and performance of our site. By continuing to read our website, we assume you agree to this, otherwise you can adjust your browser settings. Please read our cookie and Privacy Policy. Our Cookies and Privacy Policy
Big Dams and Climate Change Drive Uttarakhand India Avalanche – Costing Lives Immediately 14/02/2021 Disha Shetty PUNE, INDIA – For Anjal Prakash, a climate scientist based in India, the flash floods in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand this past week did not come as a surprise. “The writing was on the wall,” said Prakash, a research director at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, of the 7 February rockslide and avalanche […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older Posts Newer Posts