28 September 2022
The COVID19 pandemic took place during the 4th Industrial Revolution. While it has brought a lot of advances in bioscience (vaccine, therapeutics, diagnostics, new public health tools, etc) it has also highlighted some challenges in the fight against pandemics of the 21st Century – in…
13 July 2021
Climate science is clear – global carbon emissions need to be net zero by 2050 if we are to avoid the worst impacts of global warming. As we begin to make strides towards a post-COVID world, there is now an opportunity for economies to lead a Green Recovery on a global scale, and thus fulfil…
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10 June 2021
We live in an ecosystem that allows viruses to cross from wildlife to humans more often and spread farther and faster than ever before—that has led to many emerging diseases, including probably SARS-CoV-2. But this new coronavirus also emerged in an information ecosystem that helps misinformation…
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16 April 2021
Science and principles of scientific conduct are universal leading to free communication of ideas and sharing of results, as we have seen in the race for finding solutions for the global threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientists have easily reached and collaborated across borders to achieve…
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26 February 2021
There is much concern about the public regard for standards and norms of evidence and anxiety that carefully assembled facts and data are becoming seemingly dispensable. In 2016, ‘post-truth’ officially entered the dictionary; in the years since, commentators have worried that societies are no…
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