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Fossil fuel companies donated $700m to US universities over 10 years

Funding at 27 universities can shift not just research agendas, but also policy in the direction the industry prefers, report says

Six fossil fuel companies funneled more than $700m in research funding to 27 universities in the US from 2010 to 2020, according to a new study.

Senior Research Scholar Wilmot James is a member of Brown University's Pandemic Center, which has just co-published a report with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center and COVID Collaborative on American Democracy
and Pandemic Security. On December 5, 2022, Dr. James participated in "Democracy and Pandemics: Can Free Societies Remain Safe?," a high-level convening to identify solutions to better prepare the United States and other democracies for pandemic threats. This document presents a summary of key themes that emerged during the discussion. 

Professor Jeffrey Sachs wrote an article in the Economist

Neither russia nor Ukraine is likely to achieve a decisive military victory in their ongoing war: both sides have considerable room for deadly escalation. Ukraine and its Western allies have little chance of ousting Russia from Crimea and the Donbas region, while Russia has little chance of forcing Ukraine to surrender. As Joe Biden noted in October, the spiral of escalation marks the first direct threat of “nuclear Armageddon” since the Cuban missile crisis 60 years ago.

Senior Research Scholar Wilmot James co-published a scholarly article with Natasha Turyasingura and Sten H. Vermund in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 

COVID-19 vaccine equity in Africa

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