Category: Healthcare Sustainability

Life Sciences Companies Commit Expertise and Assets to the Fight Against COVID-19 Pandemic Alongside Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

PR: Life Sciences Companies Commit Expertise and Assets to the Fight Against COVID-19 Pandemic Alongside Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Collaboration to address product development and scale-up challenges posed by the current pandemic SEATTLE, March 25, 2020 – Today, a consortium of life sciences companies announced an important collaboration to accelerate the development, manufacture, and […]

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, Mastercard Launch Initiative to Speed Development and Access to Therapies for COVID-19

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard Launch Initiative to Speed Development and Access to Therapies for COVID-19 COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator will coordinate R&D efforts and remove barriers to drug development and scale-up to address the epidemic SEATTLE, March 10, 2020 – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard today committed up […]

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Cambridge to spearhead £20million alliance to map spread of COVID-19 coronavirus

Cambridge to spearhead £20million alliance to map spread of COVID-19 coronavirus The University of Cambridge is to take a leading role in a major national effort to help understand and control the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) announced today by the Government and the UK’s Chief Scientific Adviser. Through a £20 million investment administered by the […]

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World Bank IFC Notes on Helping Companies, Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

World Bank IFC Notes on Helping Companies, Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic IFC International Finance Corporation is deploying $8 billion in fast-track financing to support economies and protect jobs. Amid an Outbreak, the Fight to Protect Jobs the IFC has Increasesd COVID-19 Support to $8 Billion to Sustain Companies and Livelihoods in Developing Countries The […]

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COVID-19 Global Impact Strategies for Mitigation and Suppression Imperial College London Research

Imperial College London Research Study Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand By Neil M Ferguson, Daniel Laydon, Gemma Nedjati-Gilani, Natsuko Imai, Kylie Ainslie, Marc Baguelin, Sangeeta Bhatia, Adhiratha Boonyasiri, Zulma Cucunubá, Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg, Amy Dighe, Ilaria Dorigatti, Han Fu, Katy Gaythorpe, Will Green, Arran Hamlet, Wes Hinsley, Lucy C […]

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A Cities ABC 4IR Magna Carta for Our Cities Humanity

citiesabc a Magna Carta a decentralised digital transformation hub for Humanity written by Dinis Guarda with Prof Yu Xiong We created the new digital empowerment project www.citiesabc.com out of the need to unite and reinvent cities. We would love for you to collaborate with us to create a better narrative for our cities and communities […]

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Mayor of London Statement on coronavirus COVID-19

Mayor of London Statement on coronavirus COVID-19 Last updated: 25 March 2020 Message from the Mayor on transport usage I’d like to thank all Londoners who have followed the rules today and stayed at home. TfL’s early-morning data suggests that Tube travel is down by an additional third compared to yesterday and bus travel down by […]

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Bill Gates’s Q&A About COVID-19 Pandemic

Bill Gates is well known for his philanthropist work channelled through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Among his multiple social endeavours, improving healthcare worldwide is a primary goal for him. Now that the latest coronavirus COVID-19  has become a global pandemic and threatens hundreds of thousands, he is ready to help as much as […]

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