Athena SWAN 2020 - Countdown to Silver

The Countdown to 2020: measuring progress in neglected tropical diseases.

The London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases1 marked its fourth year on Jan 30, 2016. The declaration represents a coordinate effort to control or eliminate ten of the neglected diseases by 2020, and has already led to important coordination and partnership, and mobilised considerable resources. Although the progress made so far is to be celebrated, now is the time to count down to 202...

Gender equity programmes in academic medicine: a realist evaluation approach to Athena SWAN processes

OBJECTIVES Gender inequity has persisted in academic medicine. Yet equity is vital for countries to achieve their full potential in terms of translational research and patient benefit. This study sought to understand how the gender equity programme, Athena SWAN, can be enabled and constrained by interactions between the programme and the context it is implemented into, and whether these interac...

Amazon Athena - Amazon Athena Documentation

Amazon Athena - Amazon Athena Documentation

Climate countdown

A new financial mechanism to help the developing world deal with the challenges posed by climate change looms as a major hurdle on the road leading to a UN summit in Copenhagen next month. Negotiators only have five days of talks this month in Barcelona to bridge stark differences that have emerged between the developed and developing world over recent months. The UN is seeking a replacement fo...