While working for the Center, Neil heads up Operations at The Ground_Up Project — a platform for connecting IMPACT investors with social and circular economy entrepreneurs.
"The Ground_Up Project plans online networking events (Impact Virtual Summit), runs educational webinars (The Investment Clinic), and supports budding entrepreneurs .. as they make strides ‘on the ground’ towards the SDGs"
Neil Van Kerkhove's career thus far has primarily been as a project manager in advertising agencies – on clients such as Apple, American Express, British Airways, British Telecom, Cisco, IBM, Nestle, SAP and more.
Maria Van Kerkhove holds an honorary lecturer position at Imperial College after leaving the college in January 2015 to join the Center for Global Health at Institut Pasteur as the Head of their Outbreak Investigation Task Force.
While at Imperial .. Maria served as a senior research fellow in the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London & a Technical Consultant for the Global Capacities, Alert and Response Cluster of the WHO
Neil Ferguson is founding director of the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling and Head of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London
Dr. Van Kerkhove served as the liaison between the WHO and the MRC Centre ..In this role, she developed projects to support WHO activities and policy decision making for influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), yellow fever, Ebola and other diseases..
Her main activity during the pandemic was to coordinate the WHO informal mathematical modelling network for H1N1pdm under the leadership of Professor NEIL FERGUSON and Dr. Cathy Roth (WHO),
That's Dr Cathy Roth from the Department for International Development (DfID)
Mentioned in this WHO report from a March 2019 meeting :
"Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing " cdn.who.int/media/docs/def…
"The recent application of tools such as CRISPR-Cas9 to edit the human genome with the intention of
treating or avoiding disease has highlighted the need for robust oversight in this area. "
"From 18-19 March 2019, 17 out of the 18 members of the Committee, and observers from eight
organizations met in Geneva, Switzerland (Annex). The meeting was opened by Dr Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO. ..
In its first substantive session, the meeting was briefed by Robin Lovell-Badge, senior group leader and
head, Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics, Francis Crick Institute , UK
"At its first meeting, the Committee produced three recommendations..
- the Committee requested WHO to immediately start work to develop a registry
2nd recommendation:
the Committee requested and urged all those conducting, or aware of research and development relevant to its mandate, in particular genome editing of human germline cells and embryos, to engage with the Committee immediately
3rd recommendation:
- The Committee requested the Director General to enhance WHO’s capacity to share information with, and collect information from, both technical and lay audiences. 2 strategies were identified: an enhanced website; and targeted outreach to regional and
country offices.
Specifically, the Committee requested the Director General to engage WHO’s regional and country offices and urge them to canvass societal views on human genome editing and to act as a vehicle for engagement"
List of observers at the WHO 2019 meeting, incl.
Dr Cathy Roth , DFID
Dr Cathy Roth is on the July 2020 list of participants for the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (#SAGE)
Biden is getting advice..from a group that includes David Kessler, epidemiologist, pediatrician ..; Rebecca Katz..global health security specialist
David A. Kessler co-chaired the Biden-Harris transition’s COVID-19 Advisory Board from November 2020 to January 2021 and was the head of Operation Warp Speed
"Biden is getting advice..from a group that includes .. Ezekiel Emanuel , bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania . It does not include physicians who believe in aliens and debunked virus therapies" 🙄
Neil Van Kerkhove received his degree from Cornell in 1999 where he was
Cayuga's Waiters- Cornell's oldest A Cappella group, Leader 1997, Concert Coordinator 1996 & 1998. Psi U Fraternity Dean's List
His first job was at Abercrombie & Fitch HQ
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Trump 'would-be assassination attempter' Thomas Matthew Crooks's maternal grandfather and his Frizzi family were army engineers and medics connected to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center ..
July 2022
"Fate of unvaccinated National Guard members and reservists sparks fears on Capitol Hill of mass military separations " stripes.com/theaters/us/20…
"“For decades, the National Guard has served as the backbone of saving Americans across the country in times of crisis,” Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., wrote in an opinion piece for Fox News"..
Waltz is the brother-in-law of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat ..
"And if that wasn’t wild enough, the former chatshow presenter was partying with Natalie Imbruglia and James Blunt for The Corrs’ acoustic check." metro.co.uk/2024/11/14/ell…
"Former Top Gear host Clarkson, 64, didn’t appear to be in the video, but some fans took aim at him for closing his pub doors to certain celebrities, while welcoming others like Ellen, who has faced backlash over her recent Netflix special"🤔
"‘Not our tradition’: calls in Sweden to ban fathers walking brides down the aisle"
Traditionally in the Swedish church, which is Lutheran, the bride and groom walk down the aisle together rather than the bride being accompanied by her father, as is often the case in Britain and the US." theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/a…
"But in recent years – perhaps inspired by the influence of global television, films and social media – more Swedish women are requesting to be “handed over” by their fathers."..
"Son of Norwegian princess arrested on suspicion of rape
Marius Borg Holby, detained in August after an incident at a woman’s apartment in Oslo, was arrested on Monday evening" theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…
"The 27-year-old son of the Norwegian crown princess, Mette-Marit, has been arrested"..
"3 years ago, artificial intelligence research firm DeepMind was acquired by Google for a reported £400m. As part of the acquisition, Google agreed to set up an ethics & safety board to ensure that its AI technology is not abused." theguardian.com/technology/201…
"The existence of the ethics board wasn’t confirmed at the time of the acquisition announcement, and the public only became aware of it through a leak to industry news site The Information." archive.is/ynCwj
"Google’s AI is being used by US military drone programme
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DoD’s Project Maven uses tech firm’s TensorFlow artificial intelligence systems, prompting debate both inside and outside company" theguardian.com/technology/201…
"Google’s TensorFlow AI systems are being used by the US Department of Defense’s(DoD) Project Maven, which was established in July last year [2017] to use machine learning & artificial intelligence to analyse the vast amount of footage shot by US drones."