Aug 10, 2015 | Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing
An independent report commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) on their efforts against the West African Ebola Outbreak has concluded that the global health emergency response apparatus is severely lacking. The chair of the report, former Oxfam chief...
Jul 30, 2015 | Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing
Over 450 million people are estimated to be suffering from mental illness globally—three quarters of whom live in the developing world—making mental health issues one of the the leading causes of disability on the planet. Yet mental illness remains steeped in stigma...
May 28, 2015 | Climate & Planet Stewardship, Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing
During the California drought of the 1980s Santa Barbara built a desalinization plant to provide drinking water to the city. The plant, which only ran for six weeks after it was completed in 1992, is being reopened. The plant comes with concerns about the economic and...
Apr 8, 2015 | Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing
Local outbreaks of food-borne disease can quickly become an international emergency. Robust safety systems are needed to drive action to safeguard against contamination through the production system from farm to table. As part of the World Health Day activities, the...
Mar 16, 2015 | Advocacy Networks, Cities, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing
In adventures he chronicles on his Facebook page, Existe Água em SP (“There is Water in SP”), the river hunter Adriano Sampaio is a tireless urban expeditionist, walking the city in search of lost rivers and springs, and posting a steady stream of videos to his page....
Mar 2, 2015 | Cities, Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing, Operational and Delivery Networks
Curtin University has just earned the first 5 Green Star Communities Rating from the Green Building Council for a master plan developed for a design for the Perth campus that focusses on sustainability, a critical step, says CannonDesign architect Peter Ellis, in...
