
Soumya Swaminathan
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Joined an eminent panel at Asian Development Bank #INSPIRE conference session on Early Childhood Care and education & its critical importance for economic development of countries. Many good examples from India & the region that can be scaled Scott Morris Ministry of WCD The Mobile Creche Academy



Plenary lecture on Climate & Health at #INSPIRE conference- spoke on need for regional leaders forum, research & innovation hubs & platform to share solutions for #airpollution & #climate threats across Asia Pacific. Our Common Air Temasek Asian Development Bank Helen Clark


How India moves: Our analysis from 40 cities provides a brutally simple answer — it does not downtoearth.org.in/air/how-india-… 🖋️ Sunita Narain, Anumita Roychowdhury, Shubham Srivastava & Sayan Roy Access the individual ground reports from every city in the analysis, and a few more, in this


A TB free India is possible- will need a sustained & well financed snd coordinated push, involving every sector! Confederation of Indian Industry Ministry of Health Mark Suzman The Rockefeller Foundation Dr. Rajiv J. Shah IAVI TB Alliance Stop TB Partnership World Health Organization South-East Asia Jeremy Farrar Wellcome Novo Nordisk Foundation Tata Trusts World Bank





The Indonesian health system transformation with its 6 pillars was described by Minister Budi Sadikin at the Asian Development Bank Inspire forum. Impressive investments in primary health care, health infrastructure & technologies, manufacturing & health workforce, incl specialists


Do you know what #Biohappiness is? Find out! IUCN Food and Agriculture Organization Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT UN Environment Programme Amina J Mohammed Inger Andersen Supriya Sahu IAS National Centre for Biological Sciences ATREE IISc Bangalore MoEF&CC UNFCC UNDRR IGES-Institute for Global Environmental Strategies Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Agriculture INDIA Pallava Bagla NITI Aayog Department of Biotechnology Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Kiran Bedi



Heat waves are becoming increasingly common, resulting in more heat-related deaths, especially among older people. Latest report from UN Environment Programme also warns that melting glaciers could reawaken ancient pathogens, while floods risk releasing dangerous chemicals. tinyurl.com/2d7rwuab


Excellent step by Jagat Prakash Nadda Ministry of Health FSSAI to create awareness abt hidden fat & sugar in foods. Clear, front of pack labelling of ultra processed foods & diversifying diets through PDS, school meals will also support this move for #HealthyIndia share.google/18VysitwqzHdtg…