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Biobanks: Why Governments Need to Step Up

Biobanks: Why Governments Need to Step Up

Biobanks -- collections of human biological samples, stored in cryogenic facilities -- could revolutionize medicine by giving researchers access to population-wide data through which they can study the interplay of genetics and disease. Governments are

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Concordia Summit Spotlights Vaccines, Digital Access, and Climate Solutions

Concordia Summit Spotlights Vaccines, Digital Access, and Climate Solutions

As the 2021 Concordia Annual Summit kicked off on September 20 in New York, the impact of COVID-19 as an accelerator of poverty and the need to rapidly move to clean energy took center stage.

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Celebrating World Public Service Day

Celebrating World Public Service Day

The United Nations has designated today as World Public Service Day. Their goal in doing so is to “celebrate the value and virtue of public service to the community, highlight the contribution of public service

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Foundations and NGOs Step in as India Struggles with Vaccines

Foundations and NGOs Step in as India Struggles with Vaccines

India began the “world’s largest COVID-19 vaccination drive” in January in a climate of misinformation and hesitancy. Across the country, Accredited Social Health Workers (ASHAs) have been on the frontline, going door-to-door, urging eligible rural

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Norad Innovates To Drive More Effective International Development

Norad Innovates To Drive More Effective International Development

At Catalyst 2030’s recent Catalysing Change conference, The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) was honored for its innovative approach to international development. Their strategy of looking for new ways of thinking has led them

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Will McKinsey’s Problems End Public-Private Partnerships?

Will McKinsey’s Problems End Public-Private Partnerships?

For decades, young graduates committed to changing the world have wrestled with a strategic decision. Should they work for governments, which command power but sometimes limited resources? Or, charities, which often have little of either?

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75 Pivotal Policies That Have Me Our World Better

75 Pivotal Policies That Have Me Our World Better

It may not feel like it right now, but in many ways the world has become a much better place in the past 75 years. Yes, we face huge challenges everywhere we look – from

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75 pivotal public policies: the 0.7% target

75 pivotal public policies: the 0.7% target

After international aid flows to poorer countries increased steadily in the quarter-century following the Second World War, in 1970 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a target for development assistance from advanced economies to rise

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75 Pivotal Public Policies: Opening The Channel Tunnel

75 Pivotal Public Policies: Opening The Channel Tunnel

If nothing else, the opening of the Channel Tunnel in 1994 sent a powerful message of encouragement to policy makers that a good idea can't be stopped forever. Plans for a tunnel between England and

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75 Pivotal Public Policies: Japan’s Bullet Trains

75 Pivotal Public Policies: Japan’s Bullet Trains

Running between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka, the Tokaido Shinkansen was the world’s first high-speed rail line. Its construction was approved in 1958, with completion in time for the Tokyo summer Olympics in 1964. The so-called bullet

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