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News from ICSU’s Regional Offices
Asia & Pacific
The 4th International Workshop on Psychological Intervention After Disasters (PIAD 2015) was held at the International Centre of Excellence on Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR-ICoE), Taipei from 9-12 November 2015. The workshop is an annual activity spearheaded by the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) with support from ICSU and its partners since 2012. This year, a total of 25 participants from eight Asian countries attended the workshop. Faculty for the workshop consisted of scholars from Australia, China, New Zealand, Taiwan and USA who are leaders in their fields of research. Core funding for the workshop was provided by IRDR-ICoE-Taipei with additional support from the Jacobs Foundation and the Chinese Society for Psychological Science. Organization of the workshop was undertaken primarily by the ICSU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ICSU ROAP) and IRDR-ICoE. Other partners included the Center for Applied Developmental Science of the Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, and the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH).
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Latin America and the Caribbean
The ICSU Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC) supported the 2015 Ministerial Summit and GEO-XII Plenary GEO XII Side Event: “Data Sharing Principles, Requirements and Implementation in LMIC”, held at the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 9-10 November 2015. ICSU ROLAC organized two contributions: 1) “Estimates and some predictions on the outbreak of influenza in Mexico City in 2009″, by Dr. Gustavo Cruz Pacheco, from the Institute of Research in Applied Mathematics and Systems of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and 2) “Open data in Latin America: regional perspectives on principles, implementation and requirements”, presented by Prof. Manuel Limonta, Director of ICSU ROLAC.
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Africa
Future ESSES Conference and GEO-Unions Meeting
The ICSU ROA Director was invited to share a regional perspective on (Geo) science education at the Future of Earth-Space Science and Education (Future ESSE) held at the ICTP, Trieste on 2 – 6 November 2015. The conference had a number of early career scientists from developing countries, sponsored by the ICTP. It was followed by the meeting of Geo-Unions and Associations, who have organised themselves to work together on issues of common interest in the development of their disciplines. Some of the issues discussed include their interactions with ICSU and its Regional Offices, Geo-Unions and ICSU Regional Offices, their contributions to Future Earth and disaster risk, the International Year of Global Understanding (2016), and the International Map Year. The discussion also dealt with collaboration around a project for which the next ICSU grant would be sought. This would need strong support from the Regional Offices.
African Forum for Health Research (AF4HR) – an outreach activity with the South African Department of Health and WHO Afro
The Office, through the Director’s membership of the National Health Research Committee for South Africa, has been listed as a key player for the African Forum for Health Research, which will be held every two years hosted on a rotational basis by different African countries. The Director will also participate in the Local Organising Committee for the planning meeting that will be hosted in early 2016 to set up a mechanism for the AF4HR series. This will involve representatives of all African Health authorities that are members of WHO Afro.
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