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The most likely and immediate threat to our species is a global pandemic of highly infectious flu. Such a pandemic could be so serious that it currently tops the UK Government’s Risk Register.Scientists from the University of Cambridge and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are attempting to collect a gold standard data set that can be …

   This investment is a response to a demonstrable call from businesses, policy makers, regulators and other institutions who must make risk-based judgements considering multiple possible consequences, that factor in uncertainty. For example, whether to build a high-speed rail link; when to abandon a flood defence; when an engine component is more …

The councils will have a pivotal role in ensuring the success of UK Research and Innovation, helping it achieve its strategic objectives to be the single, strong voice of UK research and innovation, and building on our world-leading reputation. Each Council is led by an Executive Chair who will be supported by a council of between 5 and 12 members.…

Please find a summary of this call's details here.For further details please visit NERC's page.For queries regarding the workshop or travel grants, please contact Natalia Toledo, British Council (natalia.toledo@britishcouncil.org).

The GCRF, a research and science focused aid fund, has a budget of £1.5bn over five years, which contributes towards the government’s 0.7% aid target.The fund falls under the authority of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), and aims to ensure that UK research and science play a leading role in addressing problems fac…

Fewer than five per cent of the countries were likely to meet targets on road deaths, childhood obesity, suicides and tuberculosis. However, over 60 per cent of the countries were on track to meet targets on malaria, child mortality and neonatal and maternal death rates, according to a study published this month (12 September) in The Lancet.  Singa…

On 26 September the National Council for Science Technology and Innovation posted the country’s research permit rules on its website. It also took out adverts in local newspapers to put its message across.The reason for the media blitz, says Stephen Karimi, deputy director in charge of accreditation and quality assurance at Nacosti, is a growing re…

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Much has been written and researched on famine, and many lessons on how to best prevent and respond to famine have been learned the hard way.This paper therefore draws on lessons learned from the last 30-plus years of famine crises and response, going back to famines in Ethiopia and Sudan in the 1980s, up to the most recent famine in Somalia in 201…

 Most of the drugs currently in the clinical pipeline are modifications of existing classes of antibiotics and are only short-term solutions. The report found very few potential treatment options for those antibiotic-resistant infections identified by WHO as posing the greatest threat to health, including drug-resistant tuberculosis which kills aro…

 This website presents a daily list of speakers, with links to individual pages for each speaker. These pages aggregate all multimedia information pertaining to the speaker: on-demand video(s), the country statement (.pdf), a summary of the statement, a downloadable photo, audio files (.mp3).Content can be browsed by date and country/speaker.For li…

In 2015, the world worked in partnership on a new universal sustainable development agenda: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).They were conceived to transform life for people and the planet, and bring about a new age of peace and prosperity. The key trend highlighted by the post-2015 Agenda was recognising that sustainable development requir…

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    The collaborative, multidisciplinary three-year-long projects will use environmental science, technology and engineering to tackle key challenges affecting the development of ORE systems, such as offshore wind, wave and tide facilities, and maximise their environmental and socio-economic benefits. The projects will determine where the best ener…

  GARDP was launched in May 2016 as a not-for-profit research and development initiative by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi). Latest funding for theGlobal Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership(GARDP) was announced on September 4th 2017 by the German government. GARDP will develop n…