UK’s aid cuts hit vital coronavirus research around world Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters
Vital coronavirus research, including a project tracking variants in India, has had its funding reduced by up to 70% under swingeing cuts to the UK overseas aid budget.
One of Britain’s leading infectious disease experts said the UK government cuts were certain to damage attempts to tackle the virus and track new variants.
Oliver Pybus, a professor of evolution and infectious disease at the University of Oxford and part of the team that identified the Kent and Brazilian Covid variants, said: “A 70% cut for a huge international consortium with a budget of £20m and over 80 employees – this is devastating.”
UK s aid cuts hit vital coronavirus research around world
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New Hub will galvanise expertise as Imperial researchers continue to forge vital international partnerships
The College will launch a new Global Development Hub later this month to bring together Imperial’s expertise to maximise the global impact of its world-leading research, education and innovation. The hub plans to engage with the United Nations Sustainable Agenda 2030 and to prepare for sustainability challenges that might arise 20, 30 or 50 years into the future.
Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group, will launch the Global Development Hub on Thursday 29 April 2021. The event will be introduced by Professor Maggie Dallman, Vice-President (International) and Associate Provost (Academic Partnerships) and Professor Michael Templeton, Professor of Public Health Engineering. This will be followed by remarks from Imperial’s President Professor Alice P. Gast and a
New Hub will galvanise expertise as Imperial researchers continue to forge vital international partnerships
The College will launch a new Global Development Hub later this month to bring together Imperial’s expertise to maximise the global impact of its world-leading research, education and innovation. The hub plans to engage with the United Nations Sustainable Agenda 2030 and to prepare for sustainability challenges that might arise 20, 30 or 50 years into the future.
Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group
Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group, will launch the Global Development Hub on Thursday 29 April 2021. The event will be introduced by Professor Maggie Dallman, Vice-President (International) and Associate Provost (Academic Partnerships) and Professor Michael Templeton, Professor of Public Heal
Tue 27 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT
UK aid cuts to a programme working to reduce the disaster risk to poor communities around the world could endanger millions of lives and slam shut a brief window of opportunity to build safer cities for centuries to come, experts have warned.
Professor John McCloskey, from Edinburgh University, said the 70% cut to this yearâs budget for the Tomorrowâs Cities project was an act of âvandalismâ that had wrecked the past two years of collaboration with scientists, NGOs, authorities and communities in Ecuadorâs capital Quito, Nairobi, Kathmandu and Istanbul.
Globally, about 2 billion urban-dwellers are exposed to hazards such as floods, earthquakes, fires, volcanoes and landslides, threatening the cyclical destruction of lives and livelihoods, according to Tomorrowâs Cities. With urban areas expanding rapidly, it expects this number to reach 4 billion by 2050, while hazards are increasing because of the climate crisis.
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