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  • Integrated Development Programs Work to Expand Conservation and Health Efforts in Uganda and Madagascar

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    From the Wilson Center  //  November 13, 2014  //  By Heather Randall
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    As is becoming clear, climate change, environmental degradation, population, and poverty alleviation are inextricably linked in many parts of the world. [Video Below]

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  • Exhausting the Planet: Jonathan Foley on Balancing Food Security With Environmental Sustainability

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    Friday Podcasts  //  October 31, 2014  //  By Heather Randall
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    “We’re living in a time of unprecedented change,” says Jonathan Foley, executive director of the California Academy of Sciences.

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  • Innovative Technology and Trainings Empower New Generation of Midwives

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  October 28, 2014  //  By Heather Randall
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    Imagine you are a physician working in a rural health center in a developing country. You’re helping a woman deliver her baby, and it’s just arrived but is not breathing. Meanwhile, the mother has started to hemorrhage. You’re the only one working in the clinic that day, and many life-saving treatments need to start within one minute. You have 60 seconds to make decisions that could cost the lives of two people. [Video Below]

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  • UK Global Trends Report Forecasts Security Threats in Face of Growth, Climate and Technological Change

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    October 22, 2014  //  By Heather Randall
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    By 2045, global population will be north of 9 billion with increased urbanization and migration, natural resource stress, improved medical technologies, greater use of robotic labor, and a shift towards lifelong (and increasingly online) learning, according to a recent report from the UK Ministry of Defense.

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  • What’s Youth Got to Do With It? Investing in Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health a Development Bargain

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    From the Wilson Center  //  October 21, 2014  //  By Heather Randall
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    “Half of the world’s population is under 30 – any development agenda would have to address their needs, including their health needs, as part of accomplishing development goals,” said Jennifer Adams, deputy assistant administrator at USAID’s Bureau for Global Health, at the Wilson Center on September 24. [Video Below]

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  • More Focused Priorities Critical for Sustainable Development Goals, Says Genevieve Maricle

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    Friday Podcasts  //  October 10, 2014  //  By Heather Randall
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    Leaders from around the world gathered in New York last month to discuss the replacements for the Millennium Development Goals, which expire next year. The topics included human rights, economic development, justice, disarmament, and terrorism, just to name a few. And that’s a problem, says Genevieve Maricle, policy adviser to the U.S. Ambassador at the U.S. Mission to the UN, in this week’s podcast.

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  • Displacement Planning Critical for Climate Change Strategies, Studies Show

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    Reading Radar  //  September 24, 2014  //  By Heather Randall

    UNHCR-Report-Cover-finalPlanned relocation should be a major component of national strategies for disaster risk management, climate change, and development, says a recent report by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The report comes as the result of an expert consultation held in Sanremo, Italy, in March of last year amid increased research linking the effects of climate change with migration and displacement.

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  • Elizabeth Berard on Reaching Adolescent Boys Living With HIV/AIDS

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    Friday Podcasts  //  September 19, 2014  //  By Heather Randall

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    Adolescent boys are 75 percent more likely to die from HIV/AIDS than girls. Why? That’s unclear. Lack of data and failure to engage boys in discussions about sexual and reproductive health and HIV care has left many suffering, says Elizabeth Berard, a health science specialist with the U.S. Agency for International Development, in this week’s podcast.

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