COVID-19: Unveiling Ground-Breaking Research on Brain Impacts & the Search for Novel, Plant-Based Vaccines
ESOF 2020 Trieste
Keynote Panel: 10h15 – 11h45, Thursday 3rd September 2020
COVID-19: Unveiling Ground-Breaking Research on Brain Impacts & the Search for Novel, Plant-Based Vaccines
Abstract:
As an ESOF exclusive, the results of two major research programmes looking at brain impacts of COVID-19 and plant-based vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the disease will be presented for the first time, followed by an interactive key influencer debate moderated by the Financial Times Science Editor.
If COVID-19 is the 9/11 Moment for Global Public Health, What Needs to Happen Next?
ESOF 2020 Trieste
Keynote Panel: 08h30 – 10h00, Friday 4th September 2020
If COVID-19 is the 9/11 Moment for Global Public Health, What Needs to Happen Next?
Abstract:
This high-level panel discussion moderated by the Financial Times Science Editor brings together world leading authorities on public health practice, management and policy. They are charged with conceiving, developing, implementing and often running those invisible systems we take for granted in our everyday lives – now utterly re-written by COVID-19.
The Cape Town 2021 Declaration: Towards a Blueprint on African Science & Society Policy-Making
Innovation Bridge & Science Forum South Africa
4 – 6 December, 2019, CSIR Pretoria: https://www.sfsa.co.za
High-Level Consultation Event: 13h30 – 15h00, Wednesday 4th December 2019
Spotlighting Lessons Learned from the Struggle, Challenge & Regulation of Drug, Alcohol & Tobacco Use
Abstract:
This plenary unites leading medical, policy and civil society experts to underscore the late Kofi Annan’s statement that “drugs have harmed many people, but bad government policies have harmed many more”. With so many Africans dying, why are the views of African scientists so rarely taken seriously by policy-makers inside Africa, let alone in most places of the world? And what chance has Africa’s civil or ‘uncivil’ society got to have its voice heard?
Competitive Advantage: Protecting the Balance in Africa, Asia & Europe
AAAS, 10h00 – 11h30, Friday 15th February 2019, Washington DC, USA.
Session Summary:
This session spotlights what is happening right now in Europe, Japan and South Africa towards building and sustaining national, regional and global ties as the bedrock of science. While managing the world’s largest public R&I funds, speakers share a mandate to place discovery at the core of international politics. Their success is measured on creating the necessary knowledge, jobs and wealth to keep tax-payers happy, while supporting a trade climate favouring developing and least developed countries.
