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The World Health Assembly (WHA) is an annual gathering of Ministers of Health, health leaders and delegations from all 194 United Nations Member States. In addition to official WHA plenary and committee meetings, there are also many events held on the sidelines of WHA.

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Covid, Climate, and Conflict: Rising to the Challenges of a Disrupted World
For 10 years, the annual PeaceCon conference has offered a dynamic platform for frontline peacebuilders, policymakers, philanthropists, and private sector and civil society leaders to engage in meaningful dialogue and develop substantive plans for action. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, migration, authoritarian resurgence, disinformation, and a crumbling international order, the field of peacebuilding and conflict resolution is facing a profound reckoning. PeaceCon@10: COVID, Climate, and Conflict: Rising to the Challenges of a Disrupted World, will explore how the field can address these pressing short and long-term challenges to achieve a more peaceful and secure world.
Last year&rsquo;s all-virtual conference attracted more than 2,000 registrants from 110 countries with more than 600 organizations attending and an audience of 19 million online users reached by the PeaceCon 2020. With the continuation of an entirely virtual format, PeaceCon@10 aims to attract an even more diverse set of voices, expertise, and ideas from across the world. Sessions will go beyond exploring the problems and will challenge participants to put forward differing points of view and distill learning outcomes into pragmatic solutions.
Join USIP, in partnership with the Alliance for Peacebuilding, as we kickstart PeaceCon@10 with a high-level keynote and panel discussion on January 26, 2022. The discussion will address the relationship between climate change, conflict, and fragility, and consider strategies for the international community to address the peace and security implications of these issues as well as the ongoing pandemic. Following a series of breakout sessions hosted by the Alliance for Peacebuilding, participants will re-join USIP for a fireside chat with a closing keynote speaker.

Registration Required

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PeaceCon@10

Responding to climate change requires transitioning at pace and scale to low-carbon energy sources.&nbsp; However, this in turn requires a huge supply of minerals, from lithium and nickel for electric vehicle batteries to copper for conducting wind power.&nbsp;
With many of these natural minerals found in many low- and middle-income countries this presents significant economic development opportunities but also multiple uncertainties, particularly for citizens whose lives and livelihoods are impacted by mining companies and biodiversity loss or land grabs due to mining expansion.&nbsp;
Join this Sussex Development Lecture to hear more about the role of minerals in tackling climate change, the tensions between economic development and social justice and the rise in conflicts between mining projects and social activist movements.

Institute of Development Studies

Affordable &amp; clean energy

Mining minerals – uncertainties caused by global energy transitions

<h2>Drawing on ten years of original research, join psychologist Tessa West for a guide to understanding and dealing with a universal problem: difficult colleagues.</h2>
Have you ever watched a colleague schmooze management while showing a Machiavellian side to the lower ranks? Has a co-worker consistently interrupted you or claimed your ideas as their own? Is your manager agonisingly overbearing?
Despite causing us daily stress at work, these characters don&rsquo;t technically break any rules and so we&rsquo;re expected to just put up with them. Until now.
Associate Professor of Psychology Tessa West has already helped thousands of people, from entry-level workers to leading executives, resolve their most pressing workplace issues.
In this livestream event, West will draw on a decade of original research to profile classic workplace archetypes, including: The Gaslighter, The Bulldozer, The Credit-Stealer, The Neglecter, and The Micromanager.
These are characters West knows well &ndash; not only from the struggles of her clients, but also from personal experience. As a rising leader in the world of academia, who has often been the only woman and youngest person in the room, she has a unique perspective on the jerks we face at work.
This is a talk for everyone who has cried in the office bathroom or bitten their tongue in a meeting: a provocative, revealing, and practical guide to getting difficult colleagues off your back, restoring your sanity, and achieving emotional wellbeing at work.

How To Academy

How to Deal With Toxic People at Work

More than 62 million Latinos live and work in the United States, contributing $2.7 trillion to the economy. Latinos fill critical roles in the service and construction industries. Yet Latinos, and other communities of color, are disproportionately impacted by food insecurity.
According to the latest census, one in six Latinos live in poverty, a root cause of hunger and food insecurity. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, 47% of Latino households with children have reported food insecurity. Language, education, and cultural differences have made Latinos especially vulnerable to food access. How do we tackle this fundamental health crisis and ensure a better livelihood for our communities?
This webinar will showcase experiences and lessons learned from <a href="https://www.unidosus.org/blog/2020/04/21/comprando-rico-y-sano-coronavirus-covid-19-impact-on-food-security/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UnidosUS&rsquo;s Comprando Rico y Sano</a> sub grantees on community-based solutions to food insecurity and efforts currently underway to influence local systems and reduce hunger. Sub grantees&rsquo; work includes enrolling community members in SNAP, enhancing the community&rsquo;s understanding of nutrition and healthier eating with limited resources, grocery shopping tours, and cooking demonstrations.

UnidosUS

Racial Injustice

Food Access &amp; Security

Reducing Food Insecurity in Latino Communities

Dr. Rohit Negi is a professor of electrical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research centers around the changing role of wireless communications, including the role of communications as a means of collecting data. To analyze this, he focuses on the need to change device design to increase integration of the physical layer and the medium access layer.
For more information about Dr. Rohit Negi, use the link <a href="https://www.ece.cmu.edu/directory/bios/negi-rohit.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University

Medical Humanities and Pandemic Urbanisms: A Talk With Dr. Rohit Negi

The report will provide a comprehensive analysis of the neglected disease R&amp;D funding landscape in FY2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our research offers important insights into the trends in neglected disease R&amp;D funding and resources during this critical period.
The event will include a presentation of the report followed by a panel discussion and Q&amp;A. Speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.

Policy Cures Research

Launch of the 2021 G-FINDER Neglected Disease Report

Join Alliance member UCSF on this 5k fun run - either in person or virtually&nbsp;- &nbsp;to &nbsp;demonstrate your solidarity for vaccine equity and raise funds through the<a href="https://get1give1worldwide.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&nbsp;Get1Give1&nbsp;</a>an initiative to help increase access to COVID vaccines. &nbsp;
The science is clear: to finally, fully defeat the COVID-19 virus, humanity must achieve herd immunity as quickly as possible. &nbsp;Unfortunately, only 7% of people in low and middle income countries have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Until more of the world is vaccinated none of us will be safe. Humanity is in a race against time. Your contribution can help us win.
The race 5km will be held at 9:00am on January 22nd at Crissy Field in San Francisco.&nbsp;
The small print:&nbsp;Aside from a 3% registration fee, your race sign up donation will go to COVAX-AMC, the global mechanism created to buy and distribute vaccines to 92 lower-income countries.COVAX-AMC will spend all the money you contribute on vaccines for lower-income countries. Your funds will not pay for overhead costs.&nbsp;COVAX pays for all its administrative costs from its general operating budget and has regular independent audits.&nbsp;<a href="https://get1give1worldwide.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Get1Give1</a> Worldwide is an independent group of volunteers who pay for all our own administrative costs.

Hybrid

In-Person

Centre for Health and Wellbeing Across the Lifecourse (CHWL), Brunel University London

5K Fun Run for Vaccine Equity (In Person and Virtual)

In light of the recently concluded annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Living Marine Resources, a panel of leaders from the Commission will consider current challenges for fisheries management and prospects for establishing new marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Wilson Center

Ocean Conservation

Antarctic Marine Conservation: Policy Directions and Current Challenges

This event will focus on the challenges and lessons learnt from Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) funding of global health interventions.
This roundtable is part of a line of work that the Global Health team and the Global Economy and Finance team at Chatham House are embarking on, to investigate the political economy of global public goods in health. It will bring together an international and diverse group of policymakers, academics, practitioners, and the private sector. These experts will share their perspectives, debate and discuss what lessons can be gleaned from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) funding and from their experiences pursuing political traction and financial commitment to global public goods for other public health challenges (with spotlights on HIV/AIDS and on AMR).

Chatham House

HIV/AIDS

Understanding challenges to funding global health interventions as public goods: Lessons for CEPI

What will shape European life sciences in decades to come?
Technology is transforming healthcare and pharma innovation is stronger than ever. In Europe, the scope for bringing technology and innovation to patients is defined by both the pharma industry and policymakers. Each have an important role to play in creating an environment that supports medical breakthroughs.&nbsp;
Join us as we discuss the challenges of enhancing the pharma innovation ecosystem in Europe, considering what&rsquo;s needed to attract life science investors to the region in the face of fierce global competition.

Financial Times

Supporting Pharma Innovation in Europe

Leveraging technology to become greener, streamlined and more profitable
Senior industry leaders will share their insights
This digital webinar, hosted by the Financial Times and in partnership with TripActions, will discuss how companies can undergo internal digital transformation that sets them up for both short term and long term growth. We will also touch upon how digitising internal operations can help a company become more sustainable and reduce their carbon footprint.

Powering growth and profitability through digital transformation

Inflation and labor market fluctuations are threatening the fragile economic recovery. Despite what the numbers say, increasingly Americans are worried about their financial future. Join Ford School economists for a discussion of these crucial issues.
Panelists
<ul>
<li>Kathryn Dominguez, Professor of Public Policy and Economics</li>
<li>Josh Hausman, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics</li>
<li>John Leahy, Allen Sinai Professor of Macroeconomics</li>
<li>Betsey Stevenson, Professor of Public Policy and Economics</li>
<li>Moderated by Luke Shaefer, Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy</li>
</ul>

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan

Economic Growth

Road to economic recovery: Inflation, wages, and changing labor force dynamics

Join us for a conversation on deploying science, technology, and data for the public good, with Kumar Garg, Managing Director at Schmidt Futures and former Assistant Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Shobita Parthasarathy, professor of public policy and director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program.
From the speaker's bio
Kumar Garg is Senior Managing Director and Head of Partnerships at Schmidt Futures. In this role, Kumar works to help all major Schmidt Futures programs find successful leverage, as well as helping to run the Technology and Society portfolio.
He previously helped shape science and technology policy for the Obama Administration for nearly eight years, serving in a variety of roles in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Garg led the Obama Administration&rsquo;s efforts to bolster science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, including the Educate to Innovate campaign, with more than $1 billion in in-kind and philanthropic investment; development of major State of the Union initiatives to train 100,000 excellent STEM teachers and bring computer science to all K&ndash;12 students; and creation of iconic events such as the White House Science Fair.
Working with the OSTP Deputy Director, he supervised a team of 20 staff with portfolios including broad innovation policy, advanced manufacturing, behavioral sciences, biotechnology, broadband, digital media, entrepreneurship, the maker movement, space, nanotechnology, and prizes. As a senior leader at OSTP, Garg was involved in policy development, implementation, and communication of a wide range of science and technology issues.
Prior to his time in government, he worked on behalf of parents and children seeking educational reform as an education lawyer and advocate. He received a bachelor&rsquo;s degree from Dartmouth College and a law degree from Yale Law School.

Science for the people: A conversation with Kumar Garg

Join us as we commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day with a special online event featuring talks and short films reflecting on the Holocaust and the 2022 national theme, One Day.
Keynote Speaker: Lucy Adlington
York is proud to be welcoming author, Lucy Adlington as our keynote speaker. Lucy will reflect on her recent and remarkably moving book The Dressmakers of Auschwitz. The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive.
At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp - mainly Jewish women and girls - were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers.
This fashion workshop - called the Upper Tailoring Studio - was established by Hedwig H&ouml;ss, the camp commandant's wife, and patronized by the wives of SS guards and officers. Here, the dressmakers produced high-quality garments for SS social functions in Auschwitz, and for ladies from Nazi Berlin's upper crust.
Drawing on diverse sources - including interviews with the last surviving seamstress - The Dressmakers of Auschwitz follows the fates of these brave women. Their bonds of family and friendship not only helped them endure persecution, but also to play their part in camp resistance. Weaving the dressmakers' remarkable experiences within the context of Nazi policies for plunder and exploitation, historian Lucy Adlington exposes the greed, cruelty, and hypocrisy of the Third Reich and offers a fresh look at a little-known chapter of World War II and the Holocaust.
Lucy Adlington is an author, presenter, and keen collector of vintage &amp; antique costume. She writes both history-inspired fiction and fascinating social history books. Lucy's book is available, with signed bookplates, from our friends at <a href="https://www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/university-of-york-events" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox Lane Books</a>.&nbsp;
Hosted by the Lord Mayor of York and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of York, the York Holocaust Memorial Day Civic Event Online will also feature short talks by City of Sanctuary York co-ordinator and trustee, Paul Wordsworth and Adam Caplan, President of the Jewish Society at the University of York, as well as two short films.
&ldquo;You didn&rsquo;t think about yesterday, and tomorrow may not happen, it was only today that you had to cope with and you got through it as best you could.&rdquo; Iby Knill, survivor of the Holocaust
Holocaust Memorial Day is One Day that we put aside to come together to remember, to learn about the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and the genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur, in the hope that there may be One Day in the future with no genocide. We learn more about the past, we empathise with others today, and we take action for a better future.

University of York

Jewish

January Awareness Days

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is on Thursday, January 27th, 2022.


International Holocaust Remembrance Day is on Thursday, January 27th, 2022.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2022

York Holocaust Memorial Day Civic Event Online

World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day (WNTDD) will be celebrated on Sunday 30 January 2022. To mark this celebration, WHO is organizing a virtual event, calling on everyone to address the inequalities that characterize NTDs. WNTDD is an opportunity to re-energize the momentum to end the suffering from these 20 diseases that are caused by a variety of pathogens including viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi and toxins.
The day provides an opportunity to focus on the millions of people who have limited or no access to prevention, treatment and care services.&nbsp;

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Mining minerals – uncertainties caused by global energy transitions

How to Deal With Toxic People at Work

Reducing Food Insecurity in Latino Communities

Medical Humanities and Pandemic Urbanisms: A Talk With Dr. Rohit Negi

Launch of the 2021 G-FINDER Neglected Disease Report

5K Fun Run for Vaccine Equity (In Person and Virtual)

Antarctic Marine Conservation: Policy Directions and Current Challenges

Understanding challenges to funding global health interventions as public goods: Lessons for CEPI

Supporting Pharma Innovation in Europe

Powering growth and profitability through digital transformation

Road to economic recovery: Inflation, wages, and changing labor force dynamics

Science for the people: A conversation with Kumar Garg

York Holocaust Memorial Day Civic Event Online

Achieving health equity to end the neglect of poverty-related diseases