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Dr. Joanne Liu, a pediatric emergency room physician and former international president of Doctors Without Borders, is joining the McGill University’s School of Population and Global Health as a professor “focusing on pandemic and health emergencies.” Liu, who grew up in Quebec City, got her degree in medicine at McGill in 1991. She joined Doctors Without Borders in 1996, working with Malian refugees in Mauritania, and co-ordinating aid projects around the world after natural disasters and epidemics like the Ebola outbreak in 2014. She also sits on the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.
If Quebec and Canada can get to an “85-ish per cent” vaccination rate, there’s a chance we can attain a type of herd immunity that would relegate COVID-19 to the ranks of an annoying common cold, immunologists forecast. Picking an exact percentage is problematic, Quebec’s public health director Horacio Arruda said Tuesday, because it depends on
4 May 2021 - 9:00am
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His Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa will tomorrow, 04 May 2021, participate in the Friends of Multilateralism’s roundtable on the work of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.
This virtual gathering of Heads of State will be co-chaired by the Right Honourable Helen Clark and Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
The panel was established in July 2020 by the World Health Organization’s Director-General. It is charged with understanding the chronology of the pandemic, national and international actions and responses to alerts and transmission warnings, distilling lessons, and making evidence-based recommendations.
The Panel has since its first meeting in September 2020 been collecting and analysing evidence to build upon the lessons from previous epidemics and pandemics; establishing an authoritative chronology of how COVID-19 became a global pandemic; understanding the wider health and socio-economic impacts of
Mark43 Selected as Finalist in Software Category of Fast Company s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards
From a cleaner freight train to an automated beehive, a way to recycle fabric, and other bold, new technologies, the 5th annual awards honor the products, concepts, companies, policies, and designs that are pursuing innovation for the good of society and the planet.
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NEW YORK, May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The winners of
Fast Company s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, honoring the businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to pursuing innovation when it comes to solving health and climate crises, social injustice, or economic inequality.
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