WMO sets priorities

Fao-wmo Roving Seminar

Vision for the Future Sets NIEHS Priorities

ALMOST EXACTLY six years ago, Sir Richard Doll celebrated the bicentenary of Percival Pott's publication of his account of the chimney sweep's cancer, in the seventh Walter Hubert Lecture entitled "Pott and the prospects for prevention" (Doll, 1975). Its essence was to emphasize the role which has been played by observant clinicians and pathologists in the discovery of carcinogenic agents activ...

Wmo Greenhouse Gas Bulletin

In 2015, Earth experienced the start of a strong El Niño event. El Niño events are natural fluctuations of the climate system where unusually warm water accumulates in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. El Niño events are associated with abnormal weather patterns such as strong storms in some places and droughts or flooding in others. A typical El Niño event lasts 9 months to 2 years. This phenomeno...

WMO/GAW Glossary of QA/QC-Related Terminology

The evaluation and characterisation of data obtained from measurements made within WMO/GAW involve a number of statistical parameters and specific terms to characterise data quality. At present, several of these terms (e.g. precision) are frequently used with different meaning by different people. Efforts for standardization have been made in the past, involving contributions from a number of i...

Global health priorities – priorities of the wealthy?

Health has gained importance on the global agenda. It has become recognized in forums where it was once not addressed. In this article three issues are considered: global health policy actors, global health priorities and the means of addressing the identified health priorities. I argue that the arenas for global health policy-making have shifted from the public spheres towards arenas that incl...