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Major flood at Salgado Filho Airport due to extreme rainfall in Porto Alegre of Rio Grande do Sul, #Brazil 🇧🇷 (06.05.2024)

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One of the worst floods of the history of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Climate change is affecting everyone, everywhere.

Thank you Alisson Becker for sharing your call for solidarity and support for all those impacted by the devastating #BrazilFloods in your home state of Rio Grande do Sul.

World Health Organization (WHO), OPAS/OMS Brasil and PAHO/WHO are committed to working with partners in 🇧🇷 to protect and promote the…

Is this the new normal in an era of climate crisis?

Devastating floods in Brazil

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Closing the Novo Nordisk Foundation Science Summit 2024! Science, technology, dual burden of infectious and NCD’s and climate change and pollution as common frame. An important network has been created. Happy to be here with my World Health Organization (WHO)’s colleagues Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Jeremy Farrar Bente Mikkelsen

📢 Our latest newsletter is here! This month, we spotlight a crucial article on the challenges Africa faces in producing its own vaccines. Dive deeper into this important discussion by The Telegraph . Read more here: ceri.org.za/news/?token=743

The head of Google research Dr Corinna Cortes could not stop talking about how exciting and fast advancing is the AI technology in the last year or so! If Google is excited to this level, we should take serious. #GlobalScienceSummit #GSS2024

Will AÍ and protein design change field so rapidly and generate new vaccines, therapeutics and biomaterials? The institute of protein design director Dr Lynda Stuart at UW thinks so! And you? #GSS2024

The editor in chief of Nature ⁦Magdalena Skipper⁩ highlighting how Nature needs to also publish implementation science reports, needing to move basic science discoveries to impact. #GSS2024

Dr Maria Neira ⁦Dr Maria Neira⁩ argument that we need to be less apocalipse about the message of climate change and health as we need to believe that we can change the direction on the globe #GSS2024

Started, day 1 of our genomics workshop at KRISP, UKZN. 28 participants getting advanced genomics training in South Africa. Together working to advancing genomics in Africa.

Very interesting and holistic presentation on the interaction of humans, biodiversity and climate interactions affecting planetary health #GSS2024

Lovely early walk on the seaside in Helsingør #GSS2024

For goodness sake, time to stop this mad war. Why is the IDF’s striking in eastern Rafah when we have 1 million refuge living in tents in southern Gaza?

Met with Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, Novo Nordisk Foundation CEO, to discuss the huge need for science and innovation driven solutions to #BeatNCDs , tackle #AntimicrobialResistance and the #ClimateCrisis . Thanked him for their support to World Health Organization (WHO) and congratulated on their 100th anniversary.

Just announced! 🗣️Novo Nordisk Foundation Gates Foundation Wellcome novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/novo-n… World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Three health foundations tackle biggest disease threats in $300mn deal Wellcome Novo Nordisk Foundation Gates Foundation ft.com/content/6218d8… via @ft

Excited to be in the launch of this new partnership and grants funding for the LMICs to develop solutions for global health John-Arne Røttingen Novo Nordisk Foundation #GSS24