ICSU: Grand plans for global changes

PANGAEA an ICSU World

Since 1992 PANGAEA R © serves as an archive for all types of geoscientific and environmental data. From the beginning the PANGAEA group started initiatives and aimed at an organisation structure which – beyond the technical structure and operation of the system – would help to improve the quality and general availability of scientific data. Project data management is done since 1996. 2001 the I...

Grand Challenges for Global Brain Sciences

Joshua T. Vogelstein, Katrin Amunts, Andreas Andreou, Dora Angelaki, Giorgio Ascoli, Cori Bargmann, Randal Burns, Corrado Cali, Frances Chance, Miyoung Chun, George Church, Hollis Cline, Todd Coleman, Stephanie de La Rochefoucauld, Winfried Denk, Ana Belen Elgoyhen, Ralph Etienne Cummings, Alan Evans, Kenneth Harris, Michael Hausser, Sean Hill, Samuel Inverso, Chad Jackson, Viren Jain, Rob Kass...

Grand Strategy and Global Health

Despite successes in global health to combat specific diseases, progress remains slow particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. We discuss two challenges in the global health landscape currently: the waning hegemony in global health governance and the recurrent pendulum swing between horizontal (health systems focused) to vertical (single-disease focused) programming by donors and agencies. Using Eth...

Grand Challenges awards 102 global health grants.

CDC Grand Rounds: Global Tobacco Control

During the 20th century, use of tobacco products contributed to the deaths of 100 million persons worldwide. In 2011, approximately 6 million additional deaths were linked to tobacco use, the world's leading underlying cause of death, responsible for more deaths each year than human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), tuberculosis, and malaria combined. One thi...