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Prof. David Canning teaches a session on health spending as a development policy in Kresge cafeteria April 6, 2021 – Since the beginning of spring semester, 35 international students have been gathering once a week in Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Kresge cafeteria—masked and socially-distanced—to learn from faculty experts about topics ranging from U.S. health policy to cancer epidemiology to decision analysis. The classes are part of a special hybrid program for first-year international students, who were facing a number of challenges with taking remote classes from tho...

Denmark looks to faba beans for locally produced feed protein A new project aims to develop new types of faba beans, ones that are suitable for cultivation in Denmark, in a bid to decrease the country’s reliance on imported soy for livestock feed. The initiative is being funded under the Green Development and Demonstration Program (GUDP), run by the Danish Ministry of Environment and Food, to the tune of 15m DKK (around €2m) in total over a period of four years. Enhancing faba beans’ protein content, amino acid composition and protein digestibility are the ...

March 4, 2021 12:58 pm Danish Pig Genetics (DG) has expanded its international presence through international collaboration with expertise from the science and technology company AbacusBio, the Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics of Aarhus University. DG is developing its own genomic evaluation system for routine breeding index calculation across breeding programs. The Danish Genetics Evaluation System (DGENES) will combine millions of datapoints from farm recording with genomic data in a Genomic BLUP, to produce the breeding index. The genetic and genomic software package DMU from ...

Program/Project Management Job in Kenya, requiring 3-4 years of experience, from CIMMYT; closing on 04 Mar 2021