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The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) is delighted to share its latest e-bulletin with you.
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PROJECT
Academy response to COVID-19
IAP joined the Sustainable Health Equity Movement (SHEM) since its launch in July 2020. On the occasion of the 74th World Health Assembly, SHEM released the 'Sustainable worldwide collaboration to respond to ongoing inequities and health emergencies' a statement that stresses the importance of recognising COVID-19 vaccines as a global public good. Read the statement here.
During 2021 World Immunization Week, IAP released an infographic to shed some light on the different types of COVID-19 vaccines, how they are developed, and how they work, and 5 bite-size videos that present aspects of vaccine science, regulation and the ‘infodemic’ in manageable nuggets of information. Share our new communications and outreach tools to explain how #VaccinesWork.
Some 100 academy leaders, Fellows and members of communications teams attended the IAP Global Webinar on Countering Vaccine Hesitancy. This online evented highlighted how academies, as trusted and credible voices - can counter vaccine hesitancy, tackle false and misleading claims being made by anti-vaxxers and others, and promote a culture of trust in the COVID-19 vaccines that are increasingly becoming available. Watch the recording of the webinar here.
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PROGRAMME
IAP Young Physician Leaders (YPL)
IAP is seeking candidates for the 10th IAP Young Physician Leaders (YPL) Programme to be held on 22-26 October 2021 in conjunction with the World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany, 24-26 October 2021. Nominations will be accepted from IAP members and the ‘M8 Alliance’ of Academic centres. Each organization can nominate a maximum of two eligible physicians below the age of 40. Read the announcement here.
Meanwhile, YPL alumni from all over the world are working hard to improve health for all:
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PROJECT
Science in Exile (SiE)
Scientists displaced by conflict and hardship need international support. And a recent workshop has officially moved a new at-risk, displaced and refugee scientists’ initiative called #ScienceInExile into a new phase of global public engagement. Join the initiative.
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PROJECT
Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences
With thanks to all of you who responded to our survey on predatory journals and conferences, we can now reveal some preliminary results. Your survey input is already helping us to raise awareness of these practices and recommend interventions to curb them. Read the news.
Want to know more about this project? Do not miss Money for Nothing: Predatory practices in academic journals and conferences, a free webinar that will take place on 16 June.
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PROGRAMME
IAP Biosecurity Working Group
IAP Biosecurity Working Group members have been invited to participate in two workshops on the Modalities of a Scientific Advisory Process for the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). Read the news.
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PROJECT-
Climate Change and Health (CCH)
The IAP virtual event on Climate Change and Health took place on 3 March as a satellite session of the 2021 Conference of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health. The session was organised by the IAP, together with its Regional Networks in Africa (NASAC), Asia (AASSA), the Americas (IANAS) and Europe (EASAC). Speakers from all regions shared their knowledge on similarities and differences between and within regions for climate effects on health. Watch the recording and download the slides here.
To follow a short EASAC-IAP presentation on CCH, follow the WHO Europe Regional Consultation on Climate Change and Health.
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PUBLICATION
Neonicotinoid Insecticides: Use and Effects in African Agriculture. A Review and Recommendations to Policymakers
One year after the launch of the NASAC report, a virtual event introduced the report and put on the spotlight an update on recent global scientific and African policy developments regarding neonicotinoids in the spotlight. Read the proceedings here.
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OPPORTUNITIES
IPBES' sustainable use of wild species assessment
As announced by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the second order draft of the chapters and the first order draft of the summary for policymakers of the assessment of the sustainable use of wild species will be open for external review until 10 June 2021. Click here to register.
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OPPORTUNITIES
2021 AAAS-TWAS course on science diplomacy
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington, DC, USA, and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy, are seeking candidates to participate in the AAAS-TWAS Course on Science Diplomacy to be held online from 30 August to 3 September 2021. Apply here.
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Richard Catlow joins Depei Liu as IAP Co-President
Catlow replaces Volker ter Meulen, who has acted as IAP Co-President since 2017 and has now been appointed as Special Advisor Read the news.
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Cherry Murray appointed to the UN TFM 10-member group
The group will advise on the ways of harnessing science, technology and innovation to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Read the news.
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Science diplomacy: the Impact Story of S4D4C
Some of the S4D4C partners, together with colleagues from other science diplomacy projects and stakeholders continue to work under the umbrella of the European Union Science Diplomacy Alliance. Read the news and download the S4D4C final report.
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How to strengthen COVID-19 research during the pandemic
IAP urges the scientific community to learn from research inadequacies and failures, particularly those pertaining to unproven interventions with consequences for medical practice and the research record. Read the communiqué here.
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COVID-19 threatens to lead to a “lost generation” of researchers, say international scholar networks
IAP and the Global Young Academy (GYA) lay out recommendations to mitigate the harms of COVID-19 and seize on the opportunities to improve higher education systems around the world. Read the communiqué here.
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News from IAP member academies
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Australian Academy of Science
The Academy has launched a new guide about the science of immunisation to help counter misinformation and uncertainty surrounding vaccines for COVID-19 and other diseases. Read it here.
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Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
Science & Diplomacy published a special issue that includes 'Connecting the Dots: The Role of African National Academies of Science in Informing the COVID-19 Response', an article by ASSAf's Phyllis Kalele and Stanley Maphosa. Read it here.
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)
NASEM published the report Reflecting Sunlight: Recommendations for Solar Geoengineering Research and Research Governance. Read it here.
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Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
The Forum for Genetic Research from the Swiss Academies of Natural Sciences launched a COVID-19 web portal. Discover it here.
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European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC)
New joint publications of European science academy networks EASAC, ALLEA and FEAM on international health data sharing and decarbonising the health sector. Read them and join the webinars.
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Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM)
In the statement The Reinforcement of the mandate of the European Centre for Prevention and Disease Control (ECDC) and a new EU Regulation on serious cross-border health threats FEAM issued a list of recommendations aimed at strengthening the ECDC's mandate. Read it here.
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The IAP Science and IAP Health Secretariat is hosted by:
The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) ICTP Campus, c/o TWAS
Strada Costiera 11
34151 Trieste, Italy
The IAP Policy Secretariat is hosted by:
The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
500 Fifth St. NW
Washington, DC 20001, United States
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© 2021 InterAcademy Partnership
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