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LUNG FORCE is a national movement to defeat lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths among women and men. In recognition of World Lung Cancer Day, the American Lung Association's LUNG FORCE initiative is urging everyone to learn about risk factors for the disease and highlighting the importance of early detection through lung cancer screening.

In support of LUNG FORCE's efforts to defeat lung cancer, you can take the following important actions:
<ol>
 	<li>Review the risk factors for lung cancer: It's important to remember that anyone can get lung cancer. The best way to reduce your risk for the disease is to take steps to avoid exposure to the dangerous substances most likely to cause it. <a href="https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/lung-disease-lookup/lung-cancer/learn-about-lung-cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Risk factors</a> for lung cancer include smoking, exposure to radon gas, air pollution and secondhand smoke.</li>
 	<li>Learn about lung cancer screening: A new screening, a low-dose CT scan, is now recommended for individuals at high risk for lung cancer and has the potential to dramatically improve lung cancer survival rates. A person is considered high risk if they are between 55–80 years old, have a 30 pack-year history of smoking (this means 1 pack a day for 30 years, 2 packs a day for 15 years, etc.), and are a current smoker or have quit within the last 15 years. If the estimated 8 million Americans at high risk for lung cancer were to be screened, about 25,000 lives could be saved.
To learn more, the American Lung Association offers a <a href="https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/lung-disease-lookup/lung-cancer/saved-by-the-scan/quiz/sbts-quiz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lung cancer screening eligibility quiz</a> and encourages those concerned about their risk to speak with their doctor.</li>
 	<li>Join the fight against lung cancer
Lung cancer is the number one cancer killer in the U.S. It is time to change this statistic by taking action. You can make a difference by contacting your elected officials in Congress and urging them to support more research for and efforts to protect people from lung cancer. Join <a href="https://www.lung.org/lung-force" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LUNG FORCE</a> today!</li>
</ol>

American Lung Association

World Lung Cancer Day 2021

The Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India(BPNI) protecting breastfeeding throughout India for last 30 years; is organizing a national event for celebrating it. The Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India(BPNI, founded in 1991, has been working towards protection, promotion and support to breastfeeding women in India. In 1992, the Parliament of India enacted the Infant Milk Substitutes Feeding Bottles, and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act 1992, and Amendment Act 2003 (IMS Act) in order to protect breastfeeding women from the commercial influence of baby food industry. In 1995, the Government of India notified BPNI in the official Gazette of India to monitor the compliance with the IMS Act and report.

Promotion of breastfeeding through communication or counselling is an important work. However, the most critical pillar is protection from aggressive marketing of baby foods. While women play the crucial role to breastfeed their babies; the responsibility of protection lies mostly with the governments and health care professionals.

BPNI believes that breastfeeding women have the right to be protected from the commercial influence in order to be successful in feeding their babies.

With this background, BPNI is organising a National event in order to make people aware how to effectively implement, monitor and enforce the IMS Act.

Title : Effectively Enforcing, Implementing and Monitoring the IMS Act to Protect Breastfeeding Women.

Join in the celebration of this World Breastfeeding Week, an opportunity to contribute to protecting breastfeeding women. And listen to the key experts from the Government, WHO, UNICEF, Public Health and BPNI.

Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India (BPNI)

World Breastfeeding Week 2021 : National Event -Effectively Enforcing, Implementing and Monitoring the IMS Act to Protect Breastfeeding Women

KTN Global Alliance in strategic partnership with Innovate UK, UKRI India and the Department for International Trade (DIT) will host a virtual Sustainable Fashion Global Expert Mission with India on 3 August 2021. Join us online as we explore synergies and challenges.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has calculated the fashion industry produces 10% of global carbon dioxide emissions every year and it is estimated to use around 1.5 trillion litres of water annually.

In the UK, we buy more clothes per capita than any country in Europe and around 300,000 tonnes of used clothes are burned or buried in landfill each year. However, progress is already being made to combat these negative environmental impacts, with both larger companies phasing in ethical and environmentally responsible collections, and SMEs developing equally innovative disruptive solutions.

Addressing sustainability challenges in the fashion industry requires a global dialogue on how to encourage long-term transformations. In August 2021, Innovate UK and KTN Global Alliance, working closely with UKRI India and the Department for International Trade (DIT), will deliver a virtual Global Expert Mission to better understand the sustainable fashion landscape in India and help benchmark against UK capability. Scheduled to align with and feed into discussions at the most senior level, this Global Expert Mission will be a unique opportunity to explore the potential for collaborations between Britain, a fashion design leader, and India, an international textile and garment manufacturer, which will address environmental challenges, as well as socio-economically benefitting both nations.

As part of this Global Expert Mission, we invite you to join us for an open-audience session showcasing companies in both countries leading in this sector. Attendees will also have an opportunity to ask questions. Presentations and conversations will span four challenge areas:
<ul>
 	<li>Digitisation to address sustainability</li>
 	<li>Sustainability supply chain and end-of-life solutions</li>
 	<li>Inspiration from tradition</li>
 	<li>Policy</li>
</ul>
We look forward to seeing you online!

KTN Global Alliance

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

UKRI India

United Kingdom Department for International Trade

Sustainable Fashion Business Showcase: Innovate UK Global Expert Mission with India

On 4 August, the Department OBG and Pediatric Nursing at Rama University are organizing an expert lecture for all the Midwives and Lactating Mothers. This expert lecture is commenced to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week. The further details of this expert lecture
are mentioned below. This session will be aiding all Midwives, Nursing aspirants, Nursing officers, Teaching faculties and Lactating Mothers in understanding the significance of breastfeeding.

We wish luck to the organizing team for the massive success of the event.

Rama University

Significance of Breastfeeding Awareness among Lactating Mothers; a Midwives concern

Join us for a panel discussion on the role of data in the COVID-19 pandemic

A panel discussion with:

Professor Jane Heyworth (panel facilitator), Deputy Head of Dept. Population and Global Health, the University of Western Australia

Professor Jane Heyworth is an environmental epidemiologist with over thirty years‘ experience in environmental health research, policy and practice. She has assisted non-government agencies in Sri Lanka, India, Hawaii and Brazil in assessing the risk associated with rainwater consumption and on water safety and health aspects of rainwater harvesting and storage.

Professor Ramanan Laxminarayan, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics &amp; Policy, University of Washington.

Professor Ramanan Laxminarayan is the founder and Director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics &amp; Policy (CDDEP) in Washington, D.C., a senior research scholar at Princeton University and affiliate professor at the University of Washington. He has played a central role in bringing the issue of drug resistance to the attention of leaders and policymakers worldwide and to the United Nations General Assembly in September 2016. He has served on President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology’s antimicrobial resistance working group, and is a voting member of the U.S. Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance.

Professor Prabhat Jha, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Prabhat Prabhat Jha is the Director of Centre for Global Health Research and University Professor and Professor of Global Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. He is the lead investigator of the Indian Million Death Study which documents the causes of premature mortality in over 3 million homes in India from 1997-2014.

Professor George Milne, School of Physics, Maths and Computing, Computer Science and Software Engineering, the University of Western Australia

Milne is a mathematical modeller with a research focus on infectious diseases. He has led development of highly-detailed, community-based models for pandemic and seasonal influenza, dengue virus, and COVID-19. These models are being used to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of social distancing and vaccination strategies, aimed at reducing infections, hospitalisations and deaths. Current research is aimed at determining optimal vaccination strategies for SARS-CoV-2 viruses, under a range of transmissions settings.

Australia India Institute, University of Western Australia

Managing the COVID Pandemic: The Role of Data

Citizen-led change is fundamental to the realization of justice, rights, and abundance for all. Thinking and learning are crucial to doing collective action for community development. Known by different names, such as popular or adult education, or workshops, trainings, or study circles, people come together, in-person or online, to critically analyze, reflect, and strategize. This webinar highlights diverse practices of learning in and for community development in different contexts around the world.

COADY International Institute

To Think, To Learn, To Do: Learning in and for Community Development

World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is a global campaign to raise awareness and galvanise action on themes related to breastfeeding.

Evolution of the Campaign

WBW is celebrated every 1-7 August in commemoration of the <a href="https://www.unicef.org/programme/breastfeeding/innocenti.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1990 Innocenti Declaration</a>. WBW started in 1992, with annual themes including healthcare systems, women and work, the <a href="http://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/code_english.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes</a>, community support, ecology, economy, science, education and human rights. Since 2016, WBW is aligned with the <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sustainable Development Goals</a> (SDGs). In 2018, a <a href="https://www.who.int/world-health-assembly/seventy-first" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Health Assembly</a> resolution endorsed WBW as an important breastfeeding promotion strategy.

Objectives
<ul>
 	<li>Inform celebrants about the selected theme of the year</li>
 	<li>Anchor the theme within the global breastfeeding agenda</li>
 	<li>Engage with individuals and organisations for greater impact</li>
 	<li>Galvanize action on the selected theme and related issues</li>
</ul>

World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action

World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) 2021

Understanding the individual cat

When it comes to cats, there is no ‘one size fits all’. All cats are individuals, with individual needs and circumstances.

Can we tell when a cat is happy?

Is it in a twitch of the tail? A miaow? Maybe a purr?

Cats are mysterious creatures and we can’t always tell what they are thinking, but what we do know is that not all happy cats are alike.

Some cats are uncomfortable with close human contact, and even if they were given all the love and attention in the world this wouldn’t change. Other cats are dependent on people and couldn’t adjust to foraging for food or living in a colony of street cats.

This International Cat Day we want to make every cat a happy cat and we can do this by sharing information and helping people understand that what makes one cat happy may not work for another. Every cat should have the best life possible, no matter its situation, and in bringing together cat owners with experts, professionals and volunteers who strive to make a difference for cats everywhere, International Cat Day provides a host of fun and informative activities to deepen our understanding of these amazing animals.

Join us on Sunday, 8 August to share the love, learn more and laugh together in celebration of International Cat Day #InternationalCatDay.

International Cat Care

International Cat Day 2021

Join us during India Week for this expert panel discussion on climate change and gender in Indian Himalaya

India Week is the Australia India Institute’s annual celebration of all things India. From culture and thought to politics and society, the week is packed full of activities that deepen mutual understanding and strengthen links between our two countries.

<a href="https://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/indiaweek2021/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visit this page to find out about the other exciting events we will be hosting during 9-15 August!</a>

Climate-change, gender and livelihoods in the Indian Himalaya.

A panel discussion with:

Alexander E Davis is a lecturer in international relations at the University of Western Australia. His research looks at international politics from critical, postcolonial, and ecological perspectives in South Asia and the Himalaya. He is particularly interested in how borders, state-making geopolitical disputes affect local peoples and ecologies in the Himalaya. He is currently writing a research monograph, The Geopolitics of Melting Mountains: An International Political Ecology of the Himalaya (Palgrave, 2022). He is head of the Australian Himalaya Research Network.

Associate Professor Jane Dyson (University of Melbourne)

Since 2002, Associate Professor Jane Dyson has conducted ethnographic research in the Indian Himalayas examining gender, work and social transformation from the perspective of social geography, cultural anthropology and development studies. She has published in geography and anthropology on issues including education, employment, love and cultural and political practice. She has also directed and produced two award-winning ethnographic films: Lifelines (2014, www.lifelinesfilm.com) and Spirit (2019, www.spiritdocumentary.com).

Dr. Ram Pandit (University of Western Australia)

Ram Pandit is an Environmental and Resource Economist at the University of Western Australia School of Agriculture and Environment. His research focuses on causes and consequences of environmental and resource management policies to help improve environmental and natural resource management in the Himalayan region. His current works include economics of threatened species conservation, socio-economic impacts of protected area policies, and valuation of urban green space.

Roshan Rai (DLR Prerna, Darjeeling, India)

Roshan P. Rai is a development practitioner with DLR Prerna (www.darjeelingprerna.org) working in the Darjeeling and Sikkim Himalaya since 1996. His work focuses on partnerships with marginal communities, with special interest in participatory governance, fair-trade movements in tea, conservation efforts, small farmer collectives, traditional community-based organisations and NGOs. Roshan actively engages at a landscape and policy level through research collaborations, educational institutions and platforms like Darjeeling Himalaya Initiative and Integrated Mountain Initiative.

Dr. Mona Chettri (University of Western Australia)

Mona Chettri is an Australia-India Institute Next Generation Network Scholar. She has worked extensively on urbanisation, ethnicity, environmental politics and development in the eastern Himalayan borderlands of Sikkim, Darjeeling and east Nepal. She is the author of Constructing Democracy: Ethnicity and Democracy in the eastern Himalaya (Amsterdam University Press, 2017) and co-editor of Development Zones in Asian Borderlands (Amsterdam University Press, 2021). Her current research focuses on the intersections between gender, labour, urbanisation and infrastructure in the Sikkim-Darjeeling Himalaya, India

Climate-change, gender and livelihoods in the Indian Himalaya

In 2022, the first permanent gallery in the country dedicated to exploring the stories, experiences, cultures and contributions of South Asian diaspora communities in the UK will open in Manchester.

This exciting and innovative gallery is entirely co-curated with a collective of people from the city.

This talk will offer a behind-the-scenes view of the collaborative work shaping dynamic new gallery displays, as well as exploring how this approach is changing the way we think about museums and their place in society today.

The British Museum

Co-curating the future: Manchester Museum South Asia Gallery in partnership with the British Museum

COVID-19 and indigenous peoples’ resilience

While the exact origins of COVID-19 have not yet been confirmed, the link between environmental damage and pandemics is well known to leading research organizations. But there is yet another group of experts, who have been worrying about the threat of a pandemic even before COVID-19: indigenous peoples. Thanks to their traditional knowledge and their relationship with the natural world, they have long known that the degradation of the environment has the potential to unleash disease.

As we fight against the spread of the pandemic, it is more important than ever to safeguard indigenous peoples and their knowledge. Their territories are home to 80% of the world’s biodiversity and they can teach us much about how to rebalance our relationship with nature and reduce the risk of future pandemics.

Indigenous peoples are seeking their own solutions to this pandemic. They are taking action and using traditional knowledge and practices such as voluntary isolation, and sealing off their territories, as well as preventive measures.

Once again they have shown their capability to adapt.

Their challenges are our challenges

Indigenous communities already face a host of challenges, and the unfortunate present reality is that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are worsening these challenges further still.

Indigenous communities already experience poor access to healthcare, significantly higher rates of diseases, lack of access to essential services, sanitation, and other key preventive measures, such as clean water, soap, disinfectant, etc. Likewise, most nearby local medical facilities are often under-equipped and under-staffed. Even when indigenous peoples can access healthcare services, they can face stigma and discrimination. A key factor is to ensure services and facilities are provided in indigenous languages, as appropriate to the specific situation of Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples’ traditional lifestyles are a source of their resiliency and can also pose a threat at this time in preventing the spread of the virus.  For example, most indigenous communities regularly organize large traditional gatherings to mark special events e.g. harvests, coming of age ceremonies, etc. Some indigenous communities also live in multi-generational housing, which puts Indigenous peoples and their families, especially the Elders, at risk.

Furthermore, indigenous peoples already face food insecurity as a result of the loss of their traditional lands and territories or even climate change effects. They also confront even graver challenges accessing food. With the loss of their traditional livelihoods, which are often land-based, many indigenous peoples, who work in traditional occupations and subsistence economies or in the informal sector, will be adversely affected by the pandemic. The situation of indigenous women, who are often the main providers of food and nutrition to their families, is even graver.

In order to raise awareness of the needs of indigenous peoples, every 9 August commemorates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Especially now, they need us. Especially now, we need the tradicional knowledge, voices and wisdom of indigenous peoples.

United Nations

International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 2021

The Australia India Institute is pleased to be officially launching India Week 2021 with the webinar and topic: Australia and India in Partnership.

India Week is the Australia India Institute’s annual celebration of all things India. From culture and thought to politics and society, the week is packed full of activities that deepen mutual understanding and strengthen links between our two countries.

<a href="https://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/indiaweek2021/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visit this page to find out about the other exciting events we will be hosting during 9-15 August!</a>

Note: This event will be an online webinar event.

Our distinguished guests and speakers include:

His Excellency Manpreet Vohra, High Commissioner of India to Australia

His Excellency Barry O'Farrell AO,  High Commissioner of Australia to India

Peter Varghese AO, Chancellor of the University of Queensland, and author of Australia's India Economic Strategy to 2035

Ms Suhasini Haidar, Member of the AII Board and National Editor and Diplomatic Affairs Editor of The Hindu

Associate Professor Manisha Priyam, Head of Education Policy, National University for Education Planning and Administration, India

The Chair of the AII Board and Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Allan Myers QC, AC will open India week 2021 and welcome the distinguished guests. Professor Michael Wesley, Deputy Vice Chancellor International at the University of Melbourne will provide the Vote of Thanks, and Professor Muthupandian Ashokkumar, Acting AII Director and Assistant Deputy Vice Chancellor International at the University of Melbourne, will moderate.

Topics to be discussed include the Australia and India education relationship and its future outlook, the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) under the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) between India and Australia, and the bilateral partnership from educational, political, media and corporate perspectives.

India Week Official Launch – Australia and India in Partnership Webinar

Excavating narratives from the Adivasis in India and the Aboriginal peoples in Australia, whose stories are underrepresented in media and culture in this "modern age". Who do these lands truly belong to, and what can India and Australia learn from each other about their seemingly similar indigenous inhabitants?

In this session, our panelists will talk about the “mainstream” and the “indigenous” and examine the effects and subtexts of “development” within Australian and Indian contexts, facilitating a more nuanced understanding of the contemporary sociocultural fabric of these countries. Come join us as we explore how literatures, oral and written, both reflect and shape public consciousness around issues of identity and inclusion.

Belongg Literature Collective

Stories of Indigenousness: Land and Belonging

India Week is the Australia India Institute’s annual celebration of all things India. From culture and thought to politics and society, the week is packed full of activities that deepen mutual understanding and strengthen links between our two countries.

<a href="https://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/indiaweek2021/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visit this page to find out about the other exciting events we will be hosting during 9-15 August!</a>

The Australia India Institute (AII) draws on the expertise and energy of its fellows who greatly enhance its capacity and ability to meet its goal of becoming the premier centre for research on contemporary India. Our fellows are eminent and distinguished experts in their fields, and have been chosen to represent the AII on the basis of their outstanding vision and leadership, and on the basis of their ongoing commitment and outstanding contributions to advancing Australia-India relations. Our Fellows Series will showcase their work and views on the bilateral relationship.

Maie Casey in India and her support for Indian art

Baroness (Maie) Casey (1892-1983) was an author, artist, collector, and connoisseur. She was also an advocate for modern art and owned a significant art contemporary art collection. Her husband, Baron (Richard) Casey (1890-1976), a conservative politician and diplomat, was appointed the Governor of Bengal in 1944 and spent two years in Kolkata. As Vice-Reine, Maie took a strong interest in the arts of Bengal, using her position to encourage the arts and crafts community and artists such as Jamini Roy and Rabindranath Tagore. She organised events at Government House, and purchased works of art from modernist Indian artists, and brought them back to Australia, where she exhibited them as part of her own collection. In the 1950s, she introduced Australian contemporary art to India. This webinar will explore her role in building connections between contemporary Australian and Indian art in the 1940s and 50s.

About the speaker:

Michael Moignard spent 35 years as an Australian public servant working in trade and resources policy, and trade promotion. He holds a Masters in Science (Chemistry) from the University of Melbourne, a B.A. (Hons) in History and Economics from ANU, and a Diploma of Education from La Trobe University. Michael spent close to 7 years in India, as Senior Trade Commissioner for South Asia with the Australian High Commission in New Delhi. He first served in New Delhi from 1998 to 2000, and again from 2004 to 2008, most recently in late 2012. He also served with the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) in New York, Santiago de Chile, Manila, and Singapore.

Michael is an honorary Academic Fellow of the Australia India Institute (AII). In September 2014, he co-founded EastWest Academy Pty Ltd, a small firm involved in assisting Australian business do business in India. He is a Director of EastWest Advisers. Michael is a Board Member of Ryder Cheshire Australia, and is President of its Victorian chapter. Michael was a member of the Australia India Business Council Victoria Committee from 2016 to 2018, and was President of the chapter from March to May 2017. He is currently finishing a PhD at La Trobe University in Australian art history.

AII Fellows Series: Maie Casey in India and her support for Indian art

As per SHRM research, around 95% of organizations worldwide have already implemented, or are considering, distinct policies for 'workplace', and upskilling and reskilling have been identified as a key area in this change. Helping employees in the PSU sector to attain digital skills and also revolutionize performance through infusing technology is a key focus in the sector now. Reconfigured workplaces increasingly need on-demand high learning through digital means. Automation and digitization of business and people processes have become key drivers for organizations to achieve business success and service people.
We will be discussing the latest trends, innovations, and experiences in the PSU sector with the best experts from PSU and HR technology providers.

The webinar will focus on:
<ol>
 	<li>How can PSU’s promote sustainable skill development to embed it in their organizational culture?</li>
 	<li>What key skills are required in the post-COVID workplace? What major trends are we witnessing across PSU’s?</li>
 	<li>What are some of the best practices for leveraging technology for capability building?</li>
 	<li>How is the onset of millennials changing the space of L&amp;D in the PSU ecosystem?</li>
</ol>

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