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University of Sussex Researchers have begun analysing the innovative approaches taken by six organisations and partnerships across the country in addressing extra-familial risks faced by young people. The £1.9 million Innovate Project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, is exploring new ways of combating safeguarding risks beyond the family home, such as sexual and criminal exploitation, peer-on-peer abuse, and gang affiliation. The research, led by Professor Michelle Lefevre ...

Bogside and Brandywell Health Forum one of 10 award winners

2International Livestock Research Institute, Dakar, Senegal The expected increase in livestock production to meet its increasing demand could lead to increased water depletion through feeds production. This study aimed at estimating the amount of water depletion through feeds and its corresponding productivity in livestock within the three dominant livestock management systems namely sedentary-intensive, sedentary-extensive, and transhumance in Yatenga and Seno provinces in the Sahelian zone of...

Bucks County Courier Times Dana DeFilippis has been named CEO of Merck Sharp & Dohme Federal Credit Union, headquartered in New Britain Township. DeFilippis, previously the credit unions senior vice president, succeeded David Whitehead, who retired April 2 after 24 years of service at MSDFCU and a 45-year banking career. DeFilippis has over 25 years of banking experience, including 23 years at the executive level with MSDFCU. Blair T. Rush, of Perkasie, was appointed executive vice president/...

U.S. Embassy Kampala | April 14, 2021 (as prepared for delivery Serena Hotel, Kampala) ● Representatives of Civil Society from across Uganda; ● Representatives from the East-West Management Institute; ● Friends, Good morning.  On behalf of the United States government, I am delighted to launch USAID’s Civil Society Strengthening Activity in Uganda.   Globally, the United States government — and USAID in particular — has a rich and proud history of supporting civil society.  Presi...

G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council membership announced CERN Director-General, former Foreign Minister for Australia and a Harvard Professor join Professor Sarah Gilbert and Chair Sarah Sands on the GEAC From: 9 April 2021 CERN Director-General Dr Fabiola Gianotti, former Foreign Minister for Australia, the Hon Julie Bishop, and Harvard Professor Iris Bohnet join Professor Sarah Gilbert and Chair Sarah Sands on the Council Council to convene for first time next week (12 April) Members will...

A new memoir traces an immigrants journey of faith and kindness June Wood Agamah moved to Springfield in 1995 with her husband, Dr. Edem Agamah, and their three young daughters. Its a long way from her Guyana homeland – where she was called Caryl. Edem was born in Ghana. Frequently Americans assume they are from the same country. They were born nearly 4,000 miles and an ocean apart. Guyana is on the northern coast of South America and Ghana on the western coast of Africa. June and...

The Citizens Assembly has heard a number of submissions to address what has been described as an epidemic of gender-based violence. Among them were calls for a single authority to deal with gender-based violence, a victims commissioner and a government minister to oversee policy in this area. The Head of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, Noeline Blackwell, said that there is currently no body, no person or office dealing with what she described as "the widespread prevalence of sexual violence in ...

Eloxx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ELOX) Q4 2020 Earnings Call Transcript Motley Fool Transcribers © The Motley Fool Logo of jester cap with thought bubble. Eloxx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELOX) Popular Searches Operator Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the Eloxx Pharmaceuticals Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 earnings webcast and conference call. Todays call is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Barbara Ryan, Eloxx Investor Relations....

CureVac, U.K. Government Agree to Develop Future Covid Shots Bloomberg 2/5/2021 Tim Loh (Bloomberg) -- CureVac NV will collaborate with the U.K. to develop vaccine candidates against coronavirus variants, with the government securing 50 million doses of any successful shot. The German biotech will work with the U.K.’s vaccine task force in assessing mutated strains that emerge, and clinical studies in the U.K. may be expedited for faster regulatory clearance, according to a ...