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Community Educational Program: Collaboration with Universities and High Schools in Italy – What's new?
Did you know that HERE Community Team cooperates with various universities and schools by proposing a Community Educational Program?
What is a Community Educational Program?
Map Creator is a user-friendly tool, allowing various types of users to add, remove or modify roads, house numbers or places and their attributes. However, Map Creator can be also used as a learning tool for students and the professors at the universities and high schools.
Our Italian Community experts have built a very strong and effective relationships with many Universities in Italy and currently they have been also offering successful programs for High Schools.
As in Italy a law requires high school students to fill in the substantial amount of hours within external companies, HERE Italy proposes interesting activities to help students gain experience and learn about HERE.
Of course we will talk to you about assigning a defined scope (to obtain the HERE certificate) to each student, based on for instance: number of map edits, Mapillary images acquired or Map Alerts resolved.
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Naval Warfare and the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Movie star Hedy Lamarr put her mind to work during World War II and patented a game-changing innovation that the Navy shelved for years.
By Commander Kenneth T. Klima, U.S. Navy; and Commander Adriana Klima, U.S. Navy
The innovations with the greatest impact in shaping human history often have curious origins. For example, one of the foundational technologies of the information age owes its legacy not to a Nobel Prize winner or academic marvel of computer science, but to a midcentury Hollywood starlet with little formal education.
Between 1940 and 1942, actress Hedy Lamarr developed the innovative concept of frequency hopping as a means to enable the U.S. Navy to build jamming-resistant radio-guided torpedoes. The Navy rejected Lamarr's ideas, only to return to them decades later when her concepts became the underpinning of the science behind advanced communications and information warfare. Once declassified by the military, Lamarr's frequency-hopping innovation evolved into spread-spectrum technology and helped launch the modern revolution in telecommunications.
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"Accenture Study: Innovation Efforts Falling Short Despite Increased Investment," Accenture , 2013, newsroom.accenture.com/subjects/supply-chain-management/accenture-study-innovation-efforts-falling-short-despite-increased-investment.htm.
CAPT David Adams, USN (Ret.); CAPT Jeff Cares, USN (Ret.); LCDR Brett Morash, USN (Ret.); Albert Nofi; Antonio Siordia; and CAPT David Soldow, USN, "SSG Served as an Innovation Incubator," U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 143, no. 4 (April 2017), www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2017-04/ssg-served-innovation-incubator.
George Antheil, The Bad Boy of Music (New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1945).
Joyce Bedi, "A Movie Star, Some Player Pianos, and Torpedoes," Smithsonian Institution, 12 November 2015, invention.si.edu/movie-star-some-player-pianos-and-torpedoes.
Joyce Bedi, "Exploring the History of Women Inventors," Smithsonian Institution, 3 March 2005, invention.si.edu/exploring-history-women-inventors.
Maha Bouzeid, "Why Is Innovation So Difficult?" The Project Lab, 2 November 2011, blog.projectplace.com/why-is-innovation-so-difficult.
Michael Castelluccio, "Beauty and the U-boats—Wi-Fi's Beginning," Strategic Finance , August 2013, 67.
Robert P. Crease, "Inventing Beauty: Robert P. Crease Revels in the Life of a Hollywood Goddess Who Pioneered Wireless Technology," review of Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breadkthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World , by Richard Rhodes, Nature 479 (11 November 2011): 474.
Charles K. Davis, "Spread Spectrum: A Protocol With a Past and a Future," Phi Kappa Phi Forum 86, no. 4 (26 September 2006): 4.
Alexandra Dean, writer/director, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (New York: Zeitgeist Films, 2018), documentary.
Jeff DeGraff, "Infographic: Why Innovation Is So Hard," Inc, 15 November 2015, www.inc.com/jeff-degraff/infographic-why-innovation-is-so-hard.html.
Jeff DeGraff, The Innovation Code: The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict (Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2017).
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Patricia Fara, "Weird Sisters? Biographies of Female Scientists Perpetuate Stereotypes," Nature 495 (7 March 2013); 43.
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Commander Kenneth T. Klima, U.S. Navy
CDR Kenneth Klima is the executive assistant to the Joint Staff Director for Intelligence (J2). He was commissioned as a special duty officer (intelligence) in 1997 through Officer Candidate School, Pensacola, FL, and holds a master's degree in national security affairs from the Navy Postgraduate School.
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Commander Adriana Klima, U.S. Navy
CDR Adriana Klima is currently assigned to Special Operations Command's Special Operations Support Team program representing the command within the U.S. intelligence community in the national capital region. She holds two master's degrees in national security affairs from the Naval War College. Previously a surface warfare officer, she laterally transferred into intelligence in 2006.

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MDC expands deer feeding ban to 41 counties in response to CWD
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MDC expanded restrictions on feeding and placing minerals for deer to 41 counties. MDC will also require mandatory sampling of deer harvested during opening weekend of the November portion of the firearms deer season. It will be limited to 25 counties and is being done to collect tissues samples for CWD testing.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) has expanded restrictions on feeding deer and placing minerals for deer from 29 to 41 counties throughout the state, effective July 1. The goal of the expanded feeding ban is to help limit the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD). The 41 counties comprise MDC's CWD Management Zone. MDC designates counties in and around where CWD has been found as part of its CWD Management Zone.
The 12 new counties are: Barry, Benton, Cedar, Dade, Hickory, Ozark, Polk, St. Clair, St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve, Stone, and Taney. They were added in response to finding CWD in Jefferson and St Clair counties during MDC's sampling efforts last season, and the finding of CWD last year in hundreds of deer in northwest Arkansas near the Missouri border.
According to the Wildlife Code of Missouri, the placement of grain, salt products, minerals, and other consumable natural and manufactured products used to attract deer is prohibited year-round within counties of the CWD Management Zone. Exceptions are feed placed within 100 feet of any residence or occupied building, feed placed in such a manner to reasonably exclude access by deer, and feed and minerals present solely as a result of normal agricultural or forest management, or crop and wildlife food production practices.
The 12 new counties join these 29 existing counties of the Department's CWD Management Zone: Adair, Boone, Callaway, Carroll, Chariton, Cole, Cooper, Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Knox, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Miller, Moniteau, Morgan, Osage, Putnam, Randolph, Schuyler, Scotland, Shelby, St. Charles, St. Louis, Sullivan, Warren, and Washington.
"CWD is spread from deer to deer and the potential for transmission increases when deer gather in larger, concentrated numbers," said MDC Wildlife Disease Coordinator Jasmine Batten. "Feeding deer or placing minerals for deer unnaturally concentrates the animals and can help spread the deadly disease."
Fall Mandatory Sampling in 25 Counties
As part of its efforts to find and limit the spread of CWD, MDC will again require hunters who harvest deer in any of 25 select counties of the CWD Management Zone during the opening weekend of the November portion of the firearms deer season (Nov. 11 and 12) to present their harvested deer at one of 56 MDC sampling stations so tissue samples can be taken to test the animals for CWD.
The 25 mandatory CWD sampling counties include new counties added to the CWD Management Zone, counties with previous CWD positives, and counties very near previous positives. They are: Adair, Barry, Benton, Cedar, Cole, Crawford, Dade, Franklin, Hickory, Jefferson, Knox, Linn, Macon, Moniteau, Ozark, Polk, St. Charles, St. Clair, St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve, Stone, Sullivan, Taney, Warren, and Washington.
MDC will also continue to offer voluntary CWD sampling opportunities throughout the 2017-2018 deer hunting season at more than 55 participating taxidermists and designated MDC offices around the state.
Additional information is available in MDC's 2017 Fall Deer & Turkey Hunting Regulations and Information booklet, available starting in July where permits are sold and online at mdc.mo.gov.


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Her Royal Highness Princess CHULABHORN
President of the Chulabhorn Research Institute is the youngest daughter of Their Majesties King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit of Thailand
H.R.H. Princess Chulabhorn is a Professor of Chemistry at Mahidol University where she joined the faculty in 1985. Her special research interests are in the chemistry of natural products and in Thai medicinal plant, environmental health problems of developing countries and cancer research. She was the third person in the world to be awarded UNESCO's Einstein Medal for her continuous effort in promoting scientific collaboration in Asia and the Pacific, and she was the first Asian to be invited to join the Royal Society of Chemistry, in England, as an Honorary Fellow. She is also chairperson of the Working Group on the Chemistry of Natural Products collaborative programme between the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the National Research Council of Thailand.
H.R.H. Princess Chulabhorn has received international recognition for her scientific accomplishments in her appointment to various United Nations posts, namely special advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme and member of the Special High-Level Council for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction of the United Nations. In addition, she has also been visiting professor at universities in Germany, Japan and U.S.A., and has received numerous honorary doctoral degrees from universities in U.S.A., U.K., Japan and elsewhere. Recently she has received the 2002 Environmental Mutagen Society-Hollaender International fellow Award, and in 2006 the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety Special Recognition Award, and most recently the Nagoya Medal Special Award presented to Her Royal Highness in October 2006 at Nagoya University
David BUTLER-JONES
Chief Public Health Officer, Public Health Agency of Canada, Toronto, Canada
David Butler-Jones is Canada's first and current chief public health officer, heading the Public Health Agency of Canada. He is also a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba as well as a clinical professor with the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan's College of Medicine. Dr. Butler-Jones has served with a number of organizations including as: president of the Canadian Public Health Association; vice-president of the American Public Health Association; chair of the Canadian Roundtable on Health and Climate Change to just name a few. In 2010, Dr. Butler-Jones was the recipient of the Robert Davies Defries award, the highest honour presented by the Canadian Public Health Association, recognizing outstanding contributions in the field of public health.
Alain DEHOVE
Coordinator of the World Animal Health and Welfare Fund of the OIE
As a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and senior Veterinary Public Health Inspector seconded to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), Dr Alain Dehove has also obtained an advanced Master's degree in Economics and Food Industry Management (1990). Dr Dehove has previously held short term replacement jobs in veterinary practices (1988-1991). He was also posted at the French Embassy in London (1991-1996), at the French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Paris (1996-2000, at the Directorate General for Food, initially as Head of Unit for bilateral relations with EU Member States and the former Standing Veterinary Committee in Brussels, then for Sanitary and Phytosanitary Multilateral Agreements and the SPS Committee in Geneva), and at the European Commission in Brussels (Directorate General for Health and Consumers, 2001-2006). Dr Dehove joined the Directorate General of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in July 2006, as Coordinator of the World Animal Health and Welfare Fund, a multi-donor trust fund for projects of international public utility relating to the control of animal diseases, including those affecting humans, and the promotion of animal welfare and animal production food safety.
Janet G. HERING
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Techology EAWAG,Duebendorf, Switzerland
Janet Hering is the Director of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology (Eawag) and Professor at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH) in Zürich and Lausanne. From 1996 to 2006, she was a Professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Prior to 1996, she was an Assistant and later Associate Professor at UCLA. She has degrees in chemistry from Cornell and Harvard Universities and a Ph.D. in oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program. Her research interests include water resources and water infrastructure management, the biogeochemistry of trace elements, and water treatment technologies for the removal of inorganic contaminants from potable water.
Joan ROSE
Laboratory Director/Principal Investigator, Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research, Co-Director Center for Water Sciences and, Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment, Michigan State University, East East Lansing, USA
Joan Rose is an international expert in water microbiology, water quality and public health safety publishing more than 250 manuscripts. She has been involved in the investigation of numerous waterborne outbreaks world-wide. Her work has examined new molecular methods for waterborne pathogens and zoonotic agents such as Cryptosporidium and enteric viruses and source tracking techniques. She has been involved in the study of water supplies, water used for food production, and coastal environments as well as drinking water treatment, wastewater treatment, reclaimed water and water reuse. She specifically interested in microbial pathogen transport in coastal systems and risks to recreational waters. She has been involved in the study of climate factors on water quality. Dr. Rose has been involved in the development of quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) frameworks, methods and data sets and considered one of the international experts in this evolving arena. She was named as one of the 21 most influential people in Water in the 21st Century by Water Technology Magazine in 2000 and won the Clarke Water Prize ($50,000 prize and one of 5 international awards for contributions to water science and technology). Current service on advisory committees include 1) Chair of the Drinking Water Committee for the Science Advisory Board for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2) Vice-Chair of USA National Committee for the International Water Association, 2002-05, 4) Member of the Strategic Council for IWA 2005-08, 3) Chair of the Specialist Group Health-Related Water Microbiology (IWA).
John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University, East East Lansing, USA
Dr. Felicia Wu is the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition and Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University. Her research concerns the global health and economic risks of foodborne toxins, and the cost-effectiveness and feasibility of interventions to improve food safety in resource-poor settings. For her research on the impact of aflatoxin regulations on global liver cancer, Dr. Wu was awarded a National Institutes of Health EUREKA Award. She has been commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) to estimate the global burden of disease caused by foodborne aflatoxin and foodborne arsenic. Dr. Wu serves on the expert roster of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) of the United Nations, and is one of three recipients of the 2011 Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)-Zhongyu award for global environmental research. She is an area editor for three journals: Risk Analysis, World Mycotoxin Journal, and Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health. Dr. Wu earned her PhD in Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, and her AB and SM in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University.
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Cezmi AKDIS
Director, Swiss Institute for Allergy and Asthma Research SIAF and President, European Academy of Allergy Clinical Immunology EAACI, Switzerland
Cezmi Akdis is the Director of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), a professor of Zurich University Medical Faculty, President of the European Academy of Allergy Clinical Immunology (EAACI), Founder and Executive Board Member of Global Allergy Asthma European Network (GA2LEN), Founder and Director of Christine Kühne-Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK-CARE), Founder of the World Immune Regulation Meetings. He has published more than 350 articles on molecular and cellular mechanisms of allergies and asthma and possibility of cure.
Walter J. AMMANN
President, Global Risk Forum GRF Davos, Switzerland
Walter J. Ammann is founder and president of the Foundation Global Risk Forum GRF Davos and chairman of the International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos. He started his professional career in various consulting companies for geotechnics and foundation engineering, earthquake engineering and bridge construction. From 1986 - 1992 he was responsible for the R&D-department of a globally acting company in construction technologies and from 1992 to 2007 director of the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Davos and deputy director of the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL in Birmensdorf. He is an expert in integrative risk management and its applications to all kinds of natural hazards and technical risks. He is author and co-author of over 250 papers, books and scientific reports.
Director, Water Institute and Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Jamie Bartram coordinates the Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health Unit at the World Health Organization's headquarters. The Unit has been recognised for international leadership in development and application of evidence based policy and good practice. He has also served as coordinator of WHO's Unit for Assessing and Managing Environmental Risks to Health. Dr Bartram has worked in diverse areas of public health and disease prevention, especially in relation to environment and health and water supply and sanitation. He has worked in around 30 developing and developed countries worldwide. Dr Bartram was awarded the IWA (International Water Association) 'Grand Award' in 2004, is an Honorary Professor at the University of Wales at Aberystwyth and a Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol, UK. He was the first, elected, chair of UN-Water. He was previously Manager, Water and Wastes at the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health in Rome and Head of the Environmental Health Division of the Robens Institute of the University of Surrey in the UK.
Daniel BRISSON
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Work University of Denver, Denver, USA
Daniel Brisson is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Social Work. He teaches in the areas of community practice, research and statistics. Daniel's scholarship is focused on improving the health and well-being of families living in low-income neighborhoods. Daniel has studied the impact of social cohesion and social capital in the lives of families living in low-income neighborhoods. He is currently studying subsidized housing and the support services that are most effective for low-income families. Daniel is actively working with a number of community partners on his research including the Denver Housing Authority, Mercy Housing, and the Piton Foundation.
Tarzisius CAVIEZEL
Mayor, City of Davos, Davos, Switzerland
Tarzisius Caviezel is a local Swiss politician and currently the Mayor of the city of Davos. Before starting his political carreer he was a sucessful businessman. In 1982 he founded, the energy company Elektro AG Caviezel in Davos, which is now part of the Burkhalter Holding AG. From 1997 to 2007 he led the Burkhalter Holding AG as CEO and was represented on the board of the Burkhalter Group until 2012. From 2007 to 2011 Tarzisius Caviezel represented the canton of Grisons in the Swiss National Council. Since January 2013, he leads the Chief Magistrate of the the Municipality of Davos, as its Mayor.
Mario CAVIGELLI
Government Councillor, Head of Department for construction, transport, and forestry, Canton of Grisons, Chur, Switzerland
Mario Cavigelli was born in 1965 in Switzerland. After studying law at the University of St. Gallen and Freiburg, he was awarded a doctorate in jurisprudence in 1994. He worked in his chosen career as an independent attorney and partner at a law and notary public office in Chur until his election to the government of the Canton Grisons. In addition, he was active in the following bodies: President of the Union of Hospitals and Homes for Grisons, president of the Board of Psychiatric Services Grisons, Member of the Board at the Union of Raiffeisen Banks, president of the Board of the Raiffeisen Bank for the Rhein Valley in Grisons. Mario Cavigelli was a member of the parliament of Grisons from 2000 - 2010. Following his election to the government for the Canton Grisons, he has presided since January 1, 2011 over the department for Construction, Traffic, and Forestry for Canton Grisons. The following areas are among his primary responsibilities: Energy – Road construction – Construction - Forestry – Hunting and Fishing.
Guéladio CISSÉ
Research Group Leader "Ecosystem services, Climate and Health", Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Guéladio Cissé is a sanitary engineer; environmental scientist and environmental health researcher. He has a long standing multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary field research experience in West Africa (more than 17 years) as a scientific collaborator of Swiss Tropical Institute, working at the interface of environment and human health. He has been head of the National Service for Hygiene and Sanitation at the Ministry of Health in Mauritania from 1986 to 1991; successively assistant, lecturer and head of the sanitary engineering department at the International Institute of Water and Environment in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) from 1993 to 1999; Director General of the Swiss Centre for Scientific Research in Cote d'Ivoire (CSRS) from July 2004 to July 2009; Regional Coordinator in West Africa of the National Centre of Competence in Research North South (NCCR-North-South) program from 2001 to 2009.
Peter Wallace DANIELS
Deputy Director, CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL), Geelong, Australia
Dr Peter Daniels is the Deputy Director of the CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong, holding senior positions in the management and delivery of diagnostic and reference laboratory services. He has developed AAHL's Regional Program of engagement with veterinary laboratories in the Asia/Pacific area and heads AAHL's designation as an OIE Collaborating Centre for Laboratory Capacity Building. Internationally he contributes in an advisory capacity to the international organizations The World Animal Health Organization (OIE), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the WHO in matters relating to the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases, including biosafety and biosecurity of dangerous pathogens. He is a Member of the OIE Biological Standards Commission and chairs the Executive Committee of OFFLU, an OIE/FAO partnership to address animal influenzas. He also chairs the OIE ad hoc Working Group developing revised international standards for biorisk management in veterinary laboratories.
Achim DOBERMANN
Deputy Director General for Research, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, Philippines
Achim Dobermann is the Deputy Director General for Research at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). He is a soil scientist and agronomist with 25 years' experience working in many world regions. He is recognized internationally as an authority on science and technology for food security and sustainable management of the world's major cereal cropping systems. He has authored or co-authored over 250 scientific papers and several books and has received numerous awards from various academic, government and industry organizations. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America. He currently provides strategic leadership and oversight for the IRRI's research and outreach programs on genetic resources, biotechnology, rice breeding, crop and natural resources management, climate change, socioeconomic and policy research, information sharing, and capacity building. Dr. Dobermann has also led the development of the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) and the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP), a unique new program that provides for the first time a single strategy and partnership platform for global rice R&D, including over 900 public, civil society and private sector partners. Achim earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in tropical agriculture from the University of Leipzig in Germany. He started his research career as a PhD student in the late 1980s, doing field research in a village in southern Russia. He first joined the International Rice Research Institute as a soil scientist in 1992, followed by an appointment as Professor for soil science and nutrient management at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 2000 to 2007, where he worked on new concepts for an ecological intensification of crop production systems.
Curt ELLIS
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, FoodCorps, New York, USA
After growing up in Oregon and finding his passion for food and agriculture at The Mountain School and Yale, Curt moved to Iowa to investigate the role of subsidized commodities in the American obesity epidemic. The film he co-created there, King Corn, produced with Ian Cheney and Aaron Woolf, received a national theatrical release and PBS broadcast, helped drive policy discussion around the Farm Bill, and earned a George Foster Peabody Award. Under his Food and Community Fellowship with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Ellis helped launch the mobile garden project Truck Farm and directed Big River, a sequel to King Corn, for Discovery's Planet Green. Ellis is a Draper Richards Kaplan Social Entrepreneur and a recipient of the Heinz Award. He has appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC and NPR, is a frequent speaker on college campuses, and serves on the Board of Directors of Slow Food USA.
Claude FAVROT
Head Dermatology Department, Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Marco FERRONI
Executive Director, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, Switzerland
An expert in international agriculture and sustainability issues, Marco Ferroni joined the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture as its Executive Director in 2008 after a career in multilateral institutions and government. Before joining the Syngenta Foundation, Marco Ferroni worked at the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank in Washington DC. As deputy manager of the Sustainable Development Department of the IDB, he was responsible for regional sector policy and technical support to the Bank's country departments. As the IDB's principal evaluation officer he assessed the relevance, performance and results of Bank strategies and investments. As a senior advisor at the World Bank he advised on donor relations and directed work on international public goods and their role in development, foreign aid and international affairs. Earlier in his career, he was an economist and division chief for development cooperation and international trade in the government of Switzerland.
Shana Cecile GILLETTE
Co-Director, Feed the Future Collaborative Research Innovation Lab: Adapting Livestock Systems to Climate Change, and Assistant Professor of Risk Communication, Dept. of Clinical Sciences College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
Shana Gillette is an assistant professor of risk communication in the Dept. of Clinical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University. She is also Co-Director of the Feed the Future Collaborative Research Innovation Lab: Adapting Livestock Systems to Climate Change.
Gerard GOVERS
Professor , Dept. of Earth and Env. Sciences, University of Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Gerard Govers is a professor in geography at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium. He has been doing research on soil erosion and degradation for over three decades using field monitoring, experimentation and modeling to understand how degradation may transform soils and affect their functioning, both at the short and long time scale. His research was not limited to fundamental aspects of soils science. He also worked on the development of agricultural techniques designed to reduce soil erosion and conserve water, in collaboration with local farmers and the agro-technical industry: the results of this work have led to increasing awareness among farmers and changes in legislation promoting the conservation of the soil resource. At present, he is strongly engaged in research concerning the impact of soil erosion on biogeochemical cycles, including carbon emission.
Ian GRAY
Professor and senior advisor to the President, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
Dr. Gray is nationally and internationally recognized food scientists and former director of MSU AgBioResearch, formerly the Michigan Agricultural Experimental Station. Dr Gary begun his MSU career in 1978 when he joined the faculty of food science and human nutrition. Dr. Gray's research expertise focuses on the formation of toxic compounds in foods as a result of processing and cooking. His research contributed to a large body of work that has led to safer, more healthful food. He has produced more than 170 scientific journal publications and has presented more than 120 papers at scientific meetings. Among his work: MSU's findings that tart cherries possess healthful antioxidants properties. Dr. Gray served as MSU Vice President for Research and is now a senior advisor to President Lou Anna K. Simon. A native of Northern Ireland, Dr. Gray received his doctoral degree in food science from Queen's University in Belfast, conducted postdoctoral research at MSU and was a faculty of food science at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.
Johannes HEEB
Operational Manager, International Centre for Water Management Services (CEWAS), Willisau, Switzerland
Johannes Heeb has over 25 years of professional experience in the areas of regional development, sustainable resource management and ecological engineering. In his positions as chairman of the executive board of seecon international, associate director of regiosuisse, co-founder of the International Ecological Engineering Society (IEES) and as a lecturer at the University of Basel and Lucerne, he is a leader in combining business competence with sustainable water, sanitation and resource management. Drawing from his long experience, Johannes Heeb links cewas and the Start-Up participants with an international, high-level network as well as coaching and lecturing.
Eve HEYN
Manager of Communications & External Affairs, GBCHealth, New York, USA
Eve Heyn is a New York writer, editor and communications consultant for leading global healthcare companies and nonprofits. A seasoned journalist with exceptional writing skills and deep-subject expertise, she offers full communications services from Web sites and annual reports to speeches, op-eds, message development and communications strategies. As Communications Manager, Eve Heyn helps lead and support communications for GBCHealth, including digital, print and marketing communications, social media, long-term strategy, messaging, thought leadership and media relations. Eve is also a communications consultant to leading global health companies, non-profits and foundations. Select projects have included the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the international communications firms Global Health Strategies, Edelman and Burness Communications and the health companies GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson. Topics have ranged from malaria and infectious and neglected diseases to vaccines, drug development, women's and children's health and public-private partnerships. A former journalist, Eve has more than 15 years experience as a reporter at leading newspapers and magazines, including Gannett and People magazine. She earned her MS at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and her BA from New York University, where she taught in the journalism department as an adjunct professor for a decade.
Jeffrey M. Jenson
PhD, Professor, University of Denver, Denver, USA
Jeffrey M. Jenson, Ph.D., is the Philip D. and Eleanor G. Winn Professor for Children and Youth at Risk and Associate Dean for Research in the Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver. Dr. Jenson's teaching and research interests address the etiology and prevention of child and adolescent problems of bullying, aggression, school dropout, and juvenile delinquency. His research focuses on the application of a public health approach to preventing child and adolescent health and behavior problems and on the evaluation of preventive interventions aimed at promoting positive youth development. Dr. Jenson has published six books and numerous articles on topics of prevention and child and adolescent development. He has received several awards for his scholarship, including the Aaron Rosen Award from the Society for Social Work and Research. Dr. Jenson received the University of Denver Distinguished Scholar Award in 2003 and the University Lecturer Award in 2007. He was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Social Work Research from 2004 to 2008. Dr. Jenson was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare in 2011.
Olga B. JONAS
Economic Adviser, Operational Response to Avian and Pandemic Influenzas, The World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA
Ms. Jonas has been responsible for coordinating the World Bank Group's operational response to avian and human pandemic influenza threats and for working with Senior UN Influenza Coordination (UNSIC) on monitoring the overall global response since 2006. Among other assignments, she was the lead World Bank author of the joint UN-World Bank global progress reports and delivered presentations on the global response to five ministerial conferences on avian and pandemic influenzas in 2006-10. She oversaw the World Bank's global program for avian influenza response and pandemic influenza preparedness, which provided $1.3 billion to developing countries. This included the Avian and Human Influenza Facility which made grants to countries to improve their public veterinary and human health capacities. She has also addressed other meetings on pandemic threats. Her prior assignments included lead economist work on two replenishments of the International Development Association (IDA), which is a part of the World Bank Group, lead economist of the World Bank/Commonwealth task force on small states, emergency response policy, extractive industries review, and macroeconomic operational work with francophone African countries. Ms Jonas joined the World Bank Group in 1983 through the Young Professionals Program. Prior to that she held positions at Princeton University, the Bank for International Settlements, and the OECD. She was educated at Williams College and Princeton.
Former Head, UN Human Development Report Office, UNDP, and Professor, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany
Inge Kaul is adjunct professor at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany and advisor to various governmental, multilateral and non-profit organizations on policy options to meet global challenges, including new and innovative ways of international-cooperation finance and global-issue diplomacy . She was the first director of UNDP's Human Development Report Office, a position, which she held from 1989 to 1994, and director of UNDP's Office of Development Studies from 1995 to 2005. Inge Kaul is the author of numerous publications on international public economics and finance and the lead editor of Providing Global Public Goods; Managing Globalization (Oxford University Press, New York, 2003) and The New Public Finance; Responding to Global Challenges (Oxford University Press, New York, 2006). Her current research focuses on: the changing role of the state; links between regionalization and globalization; the future(s) of multilateralism, with special reference to the role of the G-20; and the provision of contested global public goods.
Alexander KEKULÉ
Director, Institute for Biosecurity Research (IBS), Halle, Germany
Alexander Kekulé is director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and chairman of the Institute for Biosecurity Research (IBS). In his research, Professor Kekulé is focused on molecular biology of hepatitis viruses, viral oncogenesis and infectious diseases control. He has been granted several research awards, among them the Karl Heinrich Bauer Award for Cancer Research and the Hans Popper Award for Basic Research of the International Association for the Study of the Liver.
Shubha KUMAR
Assistant Professor and Director of Programs, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA
Shubha Kumar, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) and the Director of the Master of Public Health Online Program and Distance Education at the USC Institute for Global Health. Dr. Kumar earned her M.P.H. and Ph.D. in Healthcare Management & Policy from the University of California Los Angeles School of Public Health. Her professional and research interests include management and leadership in global health and development, program planning & evaluation, health systems strengthening, and best practices in knowledge transfer and health education. She has successfully led the design and oversight of several programs in healthcare, disaster relief, and education, as well as launched an international humanitarian NGO for which she was the Chief Operating Officer. Her recent projects include capacity building of healthcare NGOs and the development and strengthening of emergency medical systems in sub-Saharan Africa. She is most well-known for her expertise in impact evaluation, particularly Social Return on Investment (SROI) Analysis, and frequently lectures and consults nationally and internationally on this subject. Dr. Kumar is also an Adjunct Professor of Global Health at the University of California Los Angeles School of Nursing and a Senior Consultant at SVT Group, a consulting firm specializing in impact management and evaluation.
Asfaw KUMSSA
Coordinator, United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), Nairobi, Kenya
Asfaw Kumssa is the coordinator of the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) Africa Office, Nairobi, Kenya. He has published extensively on urban and regional development, human security and conflict. His co-edited books include Globalization and the New Regional Development; The Cost of Reform: the Social Aspect of Transitional Economies; and Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Development in Africa and Asia.
Retired Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences , Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
John Mackenzie is a retired Professor of Tropical Infectious Diseases and part-time Faculty Member at Curtin University, Western Australia, and is an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland and Honorary Senior Principal Fellow at the Burnet Institute, Melbourne. He was formerly Professor of Microbiology and Tropical Infectious Diseases at the University of Queensland. He received his PhD in 1969 from the Australian National University where he worked with Professor Frank Fenner and Dr Robert Webster. He was then a faculty member at the University of Western Australia for 22 years, working principally on influenza and mosquito-borne viral diseases. He was elected Secretary-General of the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS) from 1999-2005, Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and is a Past President of the Australian Society for Microbiology and the Asia-Pacific Society for Medical Virology. In 2002, he was appointed as Officer in the Order of Australia for services to public health research and to education, and in 2005, he was the inaugural recipient of the Academy of Science Malaysia's Mahathir Science Award for Excellence in Tropical Research. He serves on a number of international committees with the United Nations, World Health Organization (WHO) and other Non- Government Organizations. He is a member of the steering committee of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), a member of the Technical Advisory Group of the WHO Asia-Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases, and a consultant to the new International Health Regulations (2005). Over the past year he has served as Chair of the IHR Emergency Committee for Influenza H1N1. His recent research interests have been in mosquito-borne virus diseases and emerging zoonotic viruses, and he has published over 300 major papers and research chapters on these and other research topics concerned with human and animal viral diseases.
Michael J. MANFREDO
Professor and Head of the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
Michael J. Manfredo is professor and Head of the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Warner College, Colorado State University, USA. Dr. Manfredo's has 75 peer-reviewed research articles on the role of social science in natural resource management, was the founding co-editor of the journal entitled Human Dimensions of Wildlife and has two recent books entitled Wildlife and Society: The Science of Human Dimensions and Who Cares About Wildlife: Social Science Concepts for Understanding Human-wildlife Relationships. He is currently working on an edited book entitled Understanding Society and Natural Resources: Forging New Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciences.
Vinod B. MATHUR
Director-General, Wildlife Institute of India
Vinod B. Mathur is the Dean, Faculty of Wildlife Sciences at Wildlife Institute of India. He obtained his doctorate degree in wildlife ecology from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom in 1991. He is also the Deputy Vice-Chair of the IUCN-WCPA (Asia); Deputy Coordinator, IUFRO (Wildlife Conservation and Management) and member of the International Association of Impact Assessment (IAIA). He is currently serving as member of Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF), Government of India Committees on World Heritage Conservation, Biosphere Reserves, Management Effectiveness Evaluation and Environment Appraisal of Coal and Thermal Projects. Dr. Mathur started his career as a professional forester by joining the Indian Forest Service in 1983. He worked as a forest and wildlife manager in Darjeeling district of West Bengal. He joined the faculty of the Wildlife Institute of India in 1986 and has now spent 25 years in WII, actively contributing to its wide range of training, research and academic programmes. Dr. Mathur has extensive experience as an international trainer and his special interests include biodiversity conservation, environmental and strategic impact assessment, biodiversity informatics and natural heritage conservation.
Peter Felix MBITHI
Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Veterinary Surgery, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
Prof. Peter Mulwa Felix Mbithi is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Administration and Finance and Professor of Veterinary Surgery, University Of Nairobi (UoN). Born in 1956, Prof. Mbithi graduated from the University of Nairobi (UoN) with a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine (BVM) in 1983 and an MSc. in Clinical Studies in 1985. In 1987, Prof. Mbithi graduated with a Master of Veterinary Science (M.V.Sc. Veterinary Anesthesiology Radiology and Surgery) from University of Saskatchewan, Canada.Between 1986 and 1987, he did a Surgical Residency – Advanced Surgical Specialty Program at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. In 1995, Prof. Mbithi completed his PhD at UoN. Between 1995 and 2003 he was Chairman, Department of Clinical Studies, in 2003 he served as the Principal, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences until he was appointed as Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Administration and Finance, a position he has held to date.He has supervised MSc students and PhD students and has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and is a member of several professional organizations.Clinical veterinary medicine and orthopeadic surgery, wounding and traumatology with special interest in lameness and joint surgery are some of Prof. Mbithi research interests.
Purvi MEHTA
Regional Representative, South Asia, International Lifestock Research Institute ILRI, Philippines
Purvi Mehta is the head of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)'s global capacity development initiatives. She has been involved with a large number of capacity development, outreach, and technology transfer initiatives around the world and brings over 16 years of experience designing and implementing capacity development and stakeholder networking interventions. Purvi joined ILRI in 2009 as the Capacity Strengthening Officer in Partnerships and Communications' Capacity Strengthening and Training Programme (CaST). CAREER HIGHLIGHTS • Director of Science Ashram working with more than 60,000 farmers in India. • Country coordinator for South Asia Biosafety Program supported by IFPRI and USAID. • One of the Global authors for International Assessment for Agriculture Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development. • One of the three members of the expert committee formed by the CGIAR secretariat to review CGIAR-CSO program. • Given talks, conducted workshops on capacity development issues, technology transfer and developing country farmers' issues in over 27 international meetings in 11 countries and several international organizations including the World Bank, CGIAR secretariat, FAO, OECD.
Antonella MURARO
Head of the Regional Referral Centre for Food Allergy Diagnosis and Treatment in the Padua General University Hospital, Padua, Italy
Antonella Muraro is a Consultant Paediatric Allergist and full time member of the academic staff. She has been working for 20 years at the Allergy Unit of the Department of Paediatrics of the University of Padua, in particular in the field of paediatric food allergy, rhinitis and sinusitis as well as on prevention of allergic diseases in childhood. She has been professor of Pediatric Allergology at the Allergy and Clinical Immunology School, University of Padua since 1990. In 1992 she achieved a PhD at the University of Rome. Since 2001 she has been member of the Board of the Section on Pediatrics of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) and since 2003 she has been the scientific secretary of the EAACI - Section on Pediatrics Board; from 2007 to 2009 she has been the Chairman of the same EAACI Section. Since 2004 she has been member of the the Italian Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology. She is also Member of American College of Allergy, Italian Society of Pediatrics, Italian Society for Pediatric Respiratory diseases. She is the chairwoman of the EAACI task-force on anaphylaxis in children, the EAACI Task Force on the Allergic Child at School, the EAACI Task Force on the Food Allergy Clinical Practice Guidelines and she is the author of many publications on food allergy and atopic dermatitis in Italian and International journals. She has organizated some international meetings and courses.
Reza NASSIRI
Director, Institute of International Health (IIH), Michigan State University, Lansing, USA
Professor Nassiri is currently Associate Dean of Osteopathic Global Outreach and Graduate Programs, Director of the Institute of International Health, and Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at Michigan State University, College of Osteopathic Medicine. Professor Nassiri has made contributions to various fields of medical sciences. He has extensive experience and expertise in HIV/AIDS and has developed HIV/AIDS Clinical Research Programs in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He has delivered seminar presentations on HIV/AIDS and Hematologic Malignancies in numerous national and international conferences and workshops as well as serving as a member of Merck's and POMA Speaker's Bureau for HIV/AIDS. His vision as the Director of the Institute of International Health (IIH) at Michigan State University, is to advance the knowledge of health and medicine to impoverished and developing regions of the world through an active learning experience and development research projects, and therefore, making a difference in global health standards. This can be achieved by assisting MSU faculty and researchers with the pursuit of international objectives in their health-related field research through alignment with their specific college(s).
Nikos PAPADOPOULOS
Secretary General, European Academy of Allergy Clinical Immunology EAACI, Greece
Nikos Papadopoulos is associate professor of Allergy and Pediatric Allergy at the University of Athens (NKUA) and head of the Allergy Department, 2nd Pediatric Clinic, NKUA. He did his medical studies and specialization at the University of Athens and post‐graduate studies at the University of Southampton. He is author of over 150 peer reviewed papers and book chapters. His research studies on the interaction of viral infections with allergy and asthma have received wide attention, earning a number of international awards. He is regularly invited to give presentations at international meetings. He is the coordinator of the European Union‐funded consortium 'PreDicta', looking into the role of respiratory viruses in asthma persistence. He has served, among other, in committees of EAACI, GA2LEN, WAO, EFA and ARIA. He is currently the Secretary General of the EAACI.
Katey PELICAN
Assistant Professor, Head of Ecosystem Health Initiative and Resident Fellow, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA
As head of the Ecosystem Health Initiative at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Katey Pelican is focused on improving health at the intersection of animals, humans and the environment. She is also an assistant professor of ecosystem health in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Pelican maintains an active research program in wildlife conservation, physiology and health. Her research interests include building sustainable food systems, disease transmission between wildlife and livestock, and how changes in wildlife physiology impact population fitness and disease susceptibility. She completed her doctorate in wildlife physiology with the Smithsonian's National Zoo and the University of Maryland in 2002; she continued at the Smithsonian until fall 2007. She continues to lead the vertebrate monitoring working group for the Smithsonian's Global Earth Observatories, a network of 30 long-term monitoring sites.
Steve PUEPPKE
Associate Vice-President for Research and Graduate Studies, Michigan State University; Director of Global and Strategic Initiatives, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University, Lansing, USA
A Native of North Dakota, Steve Pueppke has a BS degree from Michigan State University (1971) and a PhD degree in plant pathology from Cornell University (1975). He held research positions at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and the University of Florida before becoming Chair of the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Missouri in 1984. He later became Unit Leader of Plant Science there. He was a visiting professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland (1989-90), and the University of Marburg, Germany (1996-97). Dr. Pueppke was Associate Dean for Research in the College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois from 1998-2006 and Director of MSU AgBioResearch from 2006-2013. Dr. Pueppke has served on several boards and committees within the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and is the former chair of the Experiment Station Committee on Policy. He is a past president of the board of the National Council on Food and Agricultural Research and past chairperson of the National Agricultural Biotechnology Council. Since arriving at MSU, Dr. Pueppke has served on the USDA Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture and on the Michigan Renewable Fuels Commission. He is a Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society and in 2008 received the Chevalier de l'Ordre des palmes Académiques from the Republic of France. Dr. Pueppke has published more than 125 peer reviewed papers over a 40 year scientific career. His current professional interests include agricultural biotechnology, 21st century food systems, and strategy.
Geof RAYNER
Centre for Food Policy, City University London, London, UK
Geof Rayner works across the health/public health/ ecology divide, as well as within social policy, food, and farming, not failing to mention the photographic arts, arguing for an integrative and ecological perspective on science and art, policy and advocacy. Born in working class Liverpool in 1950 Geof Rayner emigrated with his family to Queensland, Australia, returning to the UK to complete schooling in the 1960s. While working on building sites, fairgrounds and public parks in his spare time he participated in NGOs promoting welfare rights and community advocacy. During this time he helped establish a community health action centre in a working class district of London and began an undergraduate degree, this leading on to PhD research in the sociology of health organisations. He was employed in a variety of research and teaching posts, including at University of London Goldsmiths College and City University of New York. He co-founded Photofusion (photofusion.org), now the UK's largest independent photography centre, of which he is chair, and the academic journal Critical Social Policy. In the mid-1980s, he gave up full time academic work to devote himself to public health advocacy and the revival of public health in local government. During this time he established one of the UK's first HIV/AIDS charities, London's first pharmacy needle exchange scheme, worked with drugs and alcohol charities, and organised the launch of the Public Health Alliance, a new advocacy organisation across public health. Geof has been a trustee of the National Council of Voluntary Organisations, No Smoking Day, and was the first chair of the UK Public Health Association. Among other positions, he was professor associate in public health at Brunel University and is currently honorary visiting research fellow at City University London. Recent research includes a study of private public partnerships in Europe, for the European Commission. Geof's membership of research and advisory panels include Foresight and the Department of Health's expert group on obesity, and bodies in the field of gambling problems research. His most recent book, with Tim Lang, is Ecological Public Health: Reshaping the Conditions of Good Health (Routledge). His next book, with Gina Glover and Jessica Rayner, which combines ecological thought with photography and fine art, is The Metabolic Landscape: Perception, Practice and the Energy Transition, (Black Dog Publishing) to be published in February 2014.
Andreas RECHKEMMER
Professor, American Humane Endowed Chair, University of Denver, and Chief Science and Policy Advisor, GRF Davos, Denver, USA
Andreas Rechkemmer is chief science and policy advisor of the Global Risk Forum, Davos, Switzerland, and has recently been appointed American Humane Endowed Chair, at the University of Denver. Rechkemmer is a scholar and practitioner of international relations and political science. He has a background in United Nations diplomacy and science-to-practice management, particularly in the areas of global environmental change and climate change, sustainability, human development, and the human and societal dimensions of risk and security. His scholarship also focuses on One Health, a multidisciplinary effort to attain optimal health for people, animals and the environment. He is also a professor of human dimensions of natural resources (affiliate faculty) at Colorado State University, a guest professor at Beijing Normal University in China and an adjunct professor at the University of Cologne in Germany.
Natalie ROSCHNIK
School Health and Nutrition Advisor, Department of Education and Child Development, Save the Children USA, Washington DC, USA
Arno ROSEMARIN
Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Arno Rosemarin has a multidisciplinary environmental and natural resources background with a speciality in water resources management, limnology and aquatic toxicology. His specialities include ecological sanitation, nutrient flows, eutrophication of freshwater and marine systems, aquatic eco-toxicology and he has skills in communications, programme development, capacity building, research management, field and laboratory research, writing/editing and training. Arno completed his PhD in 1982 at Queen's University, Canada on the nutrient kinetics of the Great Lakes attached algae Cladophora glomerata and Stigeoclonium tenue. His MSc at Univ of Ottawa (1970-1974) examined indicator lotic periphyton downstream of sewage treatment plants and pulp and paper mills. He worked from 1974 to 1982 at the Canada Department of Fisheries and Oceans, from 1982 to 1986 at the Baltic Sea Laboratory in Karlskrona, Sweden, from 1986-1990 as Editor-in-Chief of AMBIO at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and has been at SEI since 1991 as Communications Director and Manager of the EcoSanRes Programme since 2001.
Pan Dong RYU
Professor, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Pan Dong Ryu is currently working as Dean of College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University. His main interest is to establish a new veterinary curriculum that can meet the emerging needs of local and global societies. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University and PhD degree in veterinary pharmacology from Iowa State University, USA. He joined to Seoul National University in 1991 after working as research associate in Iowa State University and Yale University, and has served as Associate Dean, and Director of BK21 Program, a branded graduate student research program in veterinary science at national level. The research interest of Dr Ryu has been to understand the neuronal information transmission in the brain, especially in the hypothalamus, using the electrophysiological recording technique. Dr Ryu has published about 80 papers in academic journals including Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neurophysiology and Neuroscience. He received an award of excellent paper from the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies in 2000. He has served as member of editorial boards of journals including Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies and Frontiers in Neuroendocrine Science. In addition, he has been in advisory committees of the Koran Food and Drug Administration, and National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Services since 1995.
Boleslaw SAMOLINSKI
Chairman, Sub-Committee on Priorities of Ministry of Health, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Poland, Poland
Boleslaw Samoliński is professor and head of the Prevention of Environmental Hazards and Allergology Department and director of the Environmental Health Centre of the Warsaw Medical University. He is also head of the Clinical Immunology Department of the Central Teaching Hospital. Boleslaw Samoliński is chairman of the Sub-Committee on Priorities of Public Health during the Polish Presidency of the EU Council, national consultant for public health, president-elect of the Polish Society of Allergology and chairman of ARIA CC in Poland. Two of his most important research projects are the Epidemiology of Allergic Diseases in Poland (ww.ECAP.pl) and Global Adult Tobacco Smoke Survey (GATS).
David SKOLE
Professor, Global Ecology, Remote Sensing, and GIS, Department of Forestry, Michigan State University MSU, East Lansing, USA
David Skole is Professor of Forestry. His research focuses on the relationship between land use change, the global carbon cycle and climate change and the use of geographical information for sustainable development and natural resource management. He has more than 25 years experience with research on forestry and carbon. He was instrumental in constructing the first numerical carbon accounting model and has been spearheading the integration of satellite remote sensing into carbon accounting models. He has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications on land use change and forestry issues related to carbon emissions and sequestration, including several that have been most influential in the field, ranking in the upper 1% in terms of overall influence on the science. His papers continue to be cited more than 100 times each year, including one paper, which is considered one of the top 20 most influential papers in global change science by ISI. He has been a leading expert on global environmental monitoring, having been instrumental in developing several international programs related to land use, carbon and climate change. In recent years he has been a leading authority on measurement, reporting and verification for forest carbon projects and has developed and published several protocols for A/R and REDD projects. He is a lead investigator on USAID's Famine Early Warning System. He is the director of the Tropical Rain Forest Information Center, a NASA data and information center. He has been an advisor to both international public and the private sectors, including large environmental projects such as the Brazilian SIVAM project which is developing improved regional monitoring and management capabilities for the Amazon region under contract to several U.S. companies.
Ulrich SPERLING
Director, SAFOSO Safe Food Solutions Inc., Berne, Switzerland
Ulrich Sperling is director at SAFOSO. He helps public and private clients in areas overlapping between food safety and animal health. One of his mandates is to serve the TAFS forum – an international non-profit organization that works on animal health and food safety as executive director.
Marc STETTER
Dean of the CSU College of Veterinary Medicine, Fort Collins, USA
Marc Stetter is currently the Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine Dr. Stetter comes to CSU from the Disney Company where he was the Director of Animal Programs. He graduated with his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1988 and then completed an internship in medicine and surgery at the Animal Medical Center in New York. From there, he served as Associate Veterinarian at the Audubon Zoo and the Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans. Dr. Stetter then completed a residency in zoological medicine at the Bronx Zoo/Wildlife Conservation Society. He joined Disney as a staff veterinarian in 1997. He is a Diplomate of the American College of Zoological Medicine, and served as president of that organization. He is a recent member of the Wildlife Scientific Advisory Board for the Morris Animal Foundation and is founder and President of the Elephant Population Management Program.
Philip TEDESCHI
Professor, Executive Director, Institute of Human-Animal Connection, University of Denver, Denver, USA
Philip Tedeschi Clinical Professor coordinates GSSW's Animal-Assisted Social Work Certificate program and teaches forensic social work and experiential therapy approaches. He's executive director of the Institute for Human-Animal Connection. A certified master therapeutic riding instructor and former course director/instructor with Outward Bound, Tedeschi has many years of experience in non-traditional therapeutic approaches with children, adults and families. He also has experience in interpersonal violence, including animal abuse and sexually abusive youth and adults. An appointed member of the Colorado Sexual Offender Management Board, Tedeschi also evaluates and treats sexual offenders. He is a founder and clinical administrator of Hand Up Homes for Youth Inc., and founder of Sexual Offense Resource Services.
Edward D. (Ned) WALKER
Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics , Michigan State University, East East Lansing, USA
Edward D. (Ned) Walker is a Professor at Michigan State University, holds a primary appointment in the Microbiology & Molecular Genetics with secondary appointment in the Department of Entomology. His academic career has spanned teaching, student mentoring at graduate and undergraduate levels, research, extension, outreach, service, and international activities. He is well known in the field of vector-borne diseases, including mosquito borne, tick borne, and tsetse borne pathogens. His research has taken place in the United States as well as in Honduras, the Philippines, Kenya, Puerto Rico, and Malawi. A major area of research is empirical and modeling analysis of interventions against malaria towards regional elimination; another is the relationship between agriculture, development, and malaria both in its historically and current contexts. Walker has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including an NIAID R37 MERIT award now in its 28th year of funding. Dr. Walker has been PI on several other NIAID and NSF awards as well as co-investigator and collaborator. He was the recipient of the Founder's Memorial Award of the Entomological Society of America in 2009 and is the current chairperson of the ESA's Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology section. He served on the American Committee on Medical Entomology of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2002-2006), was Co-Director of Michigan State University's Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (2002-2005), and chaired Michigan State University's Institutional Biosafety Committee (2002-2008). Walker is a co-investigator with Dr. Terrie Taylor and Dr. Mark Wilson on the Malawi ICEMR, a 7 year malaria excellence award from the NIH. He also is co-investigator on an NSF EEID award, in its second cycle of funding, with Dr. Tony Goldberg of University of Wisconsin as PI and dealing with ecoepidemiology of West Nile virus transmission. Dr. Walker has served as grant and program reviewer for national and international agencies on numerous occasions and has consulted with the World Health Organization and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Chadia WANNOUS
Senior Policy Advisor, United Nations System Influenza Coordination UNSIC, Switzerland
Chadia Wannous is the Senior Policy Advisor of the UN System Coordinator for Avian and Pandemic Influenza Dr. David Nabarro. She is a public health professional with a doctorate degree in International Health and Development. She has more than twenty years of experience working in the public health filed in a number of countries in the Middle East, South East Asia, the Caribbean, and North America. Prior to her current position in Geneva, and since 2006 she has been working mainly on Avian and Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response. First as a Technical Officer for WHO Regional Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response sub-unit in Bangkok, and as a Senior Advisor for the UN Resident Coordinator in Egypt and then as the UN System Influenza Coordination (UNSIC) Regional Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa region.
James Herbert WILLIAMS
Dean, DU Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, Denver, USA
Professor James Herbert Williams, PhD., is Dean and Milton Morris Endowed Chair at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. He holds his MSW from Smith College, MPA from the University of Colorado and PhD in Social Welfare from the University of Washington-Seattle. Dr. Williams' research and training has been funded by grants from several federal and state agencies and private foundations. Dr. Williams' publications and community engagement focus on health promotion and disease prevention, health disparities, economic sustainability, human security, conflict resolution, delinquency and violence, mental health services for African American children in urban schools, disproportionate minority confinement of African American youth in the criminal justice system, community strategies for positive youth development, and social issues of the African American community. His scholarship has been published in several prominent health and social science journals. Dr. Williams has 30 plus years of experience as a scholar/educator and social work practitioner. He has served on two commissions for the Council on Social Work Education and as a member of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Board of Directors. He is the current President of the Board of Directors for the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work.
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Emerson Center Celebrated Speakers Series
The Emerson Center at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship presents its Celebrated Speakers Series beginning in January, 2011. Subscription performance tickets are available until November 30. Single Seats are available beginning December 1. Performances are on Saturdays at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Tickets and information: Call (772) 778-5249 or visit www.TheEmersonCenter.org.
January 15 – Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan, a former presidential special assistant, vice-presidential chief speechwriter and television producer, is an author and highly regarded political columnist.
February 5 – Patrick Jake (P.J.) O'Rourke
Hard-bitten, cigar-smoking conservative Patrick Jake (P.J.) O'Rourke is the author of 10 books and has established himself as America's premier political satirist. He is looked upon as the "funniest writer in America" by both Time and The Wall Street Journal.
February 26 – Zbigniew Brzezinski
Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, Mr.Brzezinski was formerly the National Security Advisor to President Carter, is Trustee and Counselor, Center for Strategic & International Studies and Professor of American Foreign Policy at John Hopkins University in Washington, D.C.
March 19 – Gwen Ifill
Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and senior correspondent for PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, interviews newsmakers and reports on issues ranging from foreign affairs to politics.
April 9 – Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman, Professor of Economics at Princeton University and an insightful outspoken Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times, is one of the world's preeminent economists.
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A heart-to-heart conversation a young Chris Wilson had with his grandfather many years ago has stuck with him to this day. His grandfather, dying of cancer at the time, told Wilson he was disappointed in him for not applying himself in school, smoking marijuana and carrying guns. The grandfather made Wilson promise that he would turn his life around. "I was young and already in the streets, trying to figure life out," said Wilson, now 40 years old. For Wilson, that promise would eventually become a reality, but not before several heartbreaks and detours in his journey, from prison to personal tragedy. On Tuesday, Wilson spoke at Gifford Youth Achievement Center about his journey from prison to becoming the owner ...
Beach Blanket Bingo comes to Vero Beach Museum of Art
VERO BEACH -- Don't miss the Fun, Fun, Fun at the Vero Beach Museum of Art's summer costume dance party Beach Blanket Bingo on Saturday, August 13 from 6:30 to 10 pm at the Museum. This year's themed musical fundraiser celebrates the 60s beach party genre a la Frankie and Annette with live music that will treat your ears and feet to the music of the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, Dick Dale & the Deltones, Surfaris, and many more artists performed by south Florida's 60s retro-band Shindig. Guests are invited to come dressed in pedal-pushers, Hawaiian shirts, baby-doll dresses, vintage beach garb, straw hats, retro sunglasses, or let your imagination go wild. Attendees will enter through the Museum's ...


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Financial Releases for Designated Agencies
Uganda Road Fund (URF) is a body Corporate established by an Act of Parliament of 2008. Its overall objective is to ensure that all public roads are maintained at all times through provision of adequate and stable financing for routine and periodic road maintenance, undertaken by Designate Agencies (DAs). Currently, the Fund finances 164 Designated/Funded agencies that include 2 Authorities (UNRA and KCCA), 121 districts and 41 municipalities that manage Uganda's public roads network. The sub-counties and town councils are the sub-agencies of the DLGs which consist of 1,129 sub-countries and 214 town councils. District Local Governments, the Local Governments Act, 1997 mandates local governments to construct, rehabilitate, and maintain roads within their jurisdictions. Local Governments include districts and municipalities.
Since 2005, the Ugandan government has been in the process of dividing districts into smaller units. This decentralization is intended to prevent resources from being distributed primarily to chief towns and leaving the remainder of each district neglected.
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Congrats to Keith Owen on his 3rd degree black belt!
Luis "Limao" Heredia is a 5th degree black belt under Rickson gracie. He is a very accomplished instructor and competitor. He owns and operates Maui Jiu Jitsu, which is part of the Pedro Sauer assocoation, and specializes in Gracie Jiu Jitsu for self defense. In this interview he discusses coming to the US with Rickson Gracie as part of the early wave of Brazilians spreading the word about Jiu Jitsu; how he got his start in JJ; traveling to Japan with Ricson during the filming of the Choke documentary; his relationship with Pedro Sauer (and his association); life in Maui, amoung other topics.
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One of the oldest active politicians in India at age 91, DMK president M. Karunanidhi is ready for yet another political battle, "if the people and my party say so"."If the people of Tiruvarur (assembly constituency) tell me and if the party permits me I will contest," the nonagenarian politician said on Monday to a reporter's query in Kattur village in Tiruvarur district, around 320 km from here.As for a political alliance, Karunanidhi said his party will not turn away others willing to ally with it.The DMK will welcome all parties that will ensure victory for democracy, the former Tamil Nadu chief minister said.Karunanidhi was first elected to the assembly in 1957 from Kulithalai. He has won all 12 assembly elections he contested since then.After his win from Thanjavur in 1962, Karunanidhi has been contesting the assembly polls from one of the seats here. In 2011, he however shifted to Tiruvarur.


Our last blog covered the neurological causes of acid reflux, or Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), and gave three natural remedies for alleviating the painful symptoms of GERD. However, if acid reflux is not being caused by neurological reasons then it is most likely dietary choices that are leading to increased acid in the stomach.
Creating too much acid in the stomach.
There are several food ingredients able to cause an imbalance in the acidity level within the stomach. Not only that, these foods are able to cause a laundry list of ailments within the body, including acne, fatigue, weakened hair, nails and bones, depression and anxiety, and even auto-immune diseases. We essentially become what we put into our bodies. If we overload our bodies with toxins and nutrient deficient foods our bodies begin to break down at a rapid rate and become more susceptible to disease. Along the way our bodies give telltale signs like indigestion, heartburn, and the previously mentioned laundry list that something is not right on the inside.
Why is my stomach creating more acid?
This is THE question to answer when figuring out a treatment for acid reflux symptoms. The answer is really quite simple. There is an overgrowth of bacteria within the intestinal tract. This bacteria didn't just magically appear on its own, it grew and was fed by a poor diet. When there is an abundance of bacteria in the gut the body creates more acid in order to kill off the bacteria. The increased acid is the telltale sign of the overgrowth of bacteria. AHA! This makes perfect sense, right?
Diminishing acid in the gut with antacids and medication will make you more comfortable momentarily, however, it will allow an environment for more bacteria to reproduce leading to even more increased acid and uncomfortable symptoms. It's a nasty cycle that will lead you into poor health!
Next question, what is creating the bacteria in my gut?
Being aware of the fact that there is good bacteria and bad bacteria living in the gut is the first step in learning about gut health.
Eat lots of colorful fruits and vegetables.
Stay away from dairy, especially yogurt.
Avoid sugar at all costs, it's the food that FEEDS bacteria.
Pass on high glycemic foods (breads and pastas), they turn to sugar during digestion.
Kick stress and enhance digestion with exercise, go for a walk.
Say no to antibiotics because they kill off all bacteria in the body and not just sickness.
Healthy gut bacteria produce byproducts that help keep the intestinal lining strong, and without enough good bacteria to manufacture these substances, the intestinal tract becomes highly susceptible to damage. Inflammation then leads to ulceration, which destroys areas of the mucosal lining of the intestinal wall. These "breaks" allow disease-causing bacteria, toxins, and undigested food particles to pass directly into the bloodstream, where they disrupt the the body's normal function in many ways.
Chiropractic as the safest long term treatment for acid reflux (GERD).
If you're already doing all these things and are leading a healthy lifestyle but still suffering from acid reflux disease it is likely the condition is stemming from a neurological cause. If you have experienced any kind of trauma, big or small, in your lifetime then its likely your spine was damaged and vertebrae are now irritating nerves controling digestion. When your body and brain are unable to communicate via the nervous system you will experience symptoms as a signal that something is not right in the body. Symptoms can arise immediately as seen with concussion, or can develop over time.
Read our recent blog on how neurological issues cause acid reflux and GERD.
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Husband arrested after calling 911 to say he killed wife
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man has been arrested after calling police to report he had shot and killed his wife, according to a police news release.
Demetrius Montra Cooper, 40, met responding officers outside his home, Greenville police said, but Cooper did not comply with verbal commands, news outlets reported.
Officers Cooper and took him into custody without further incident, the news release said.
Police said Cooper called 911 and said he had shot and killed his wife, Amy Bland Roland, 44, at their home. .
Cooper was charged with an open count of murder and was jailed without bond. It's not known if he had an attorney.