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From working collections to the World Germplasm Project: agricultural modernization and genetic conservation at the Rockefeller Foundation This paper charts the history of the Rockefeller Foundation's participation in the collection and long-term preservation of genetic diversity in crop plants from the 1940s through the 1970s. In the decades following the launch of its agricultural program in Mexico in 1943, the Rockefeller Foundation figured prominently in the creation of world collections of key economic crops. Through the efforts of its administrators and staff, the foundation subsequently parlayed this experience into a leadership role in international efforts to conserve so-called plant genetic resources. Previous accounts of the Rockefeller Foundation's interventions in international

The role of foundations: Rockefeller Foundation The consequences of climate change and the impacts of human activity on the environment have made it clearer than ever before that we must evolve our current model of public health to better account for the inextricable link between human health and the natural systems on which it depends-creating a "public health 2.0" that builds on the innovations of the twentieth century to account for a world where humans have bypassed planetary boundaries to achieve well-being. First coined at the Rockefeller Foundation's Centennial gathering in Beijing in 2013, "Planetary Health" will factor in future health and environmental harms over present-day gains, particularly those that disproportionately affect the poor and those in developing nations. To build this new

networks with mobility data-informed approaches, an innovative practice that can improve current surveillance systems. Rockefeller Foundation.

), Canada (DFATD 7429348), The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (FIND-ACT-A DX PARTNERSHIP 20.08.2020), The Rockefeller Foundation (2020 HTH 059), Germany (BMZ Covid-19 Diagnostic and Surveillance Response 27.07.2021), Australia (DFAT 76442), Kuwait (M239/2020), The Government of Portugal and Partners (ANF, BCP, CGF, APIFARMA) and The BlackRock Foundation (Grant Agreement as of April 20, 2022).

circulation. Improvements in resource allocation will be crucial in detecting and managing imported cases and could improve local responses to dengue outbreaks. Rockefeller Foundation, National Institute of Health, EDCTP3 and Horizon Europe Research and Innovation, World Bank Group, Medical Research Foundation, Wellcome Trust, Google, Oxford Martin School Pandemic Genomics programme, and John Fell Fund.

Velho, Rondônia, Brazil. * 3 Amazon.com, Seattle, Washington, United States. * 4 The Rockefeller Foundation, Pandemic Prevention Institute, New York City, New York, United States. * 5 Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil. * 6 Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane (ILMD), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. * 7 Departments of Global Health and Medicine , Washington, United States. * 2 Centro de Pesquisa em Medicina Tropical (CEPEM), Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil. * 3 Amazon.com, Seattle, Washington, United States. * 4 The Rockefeller Foundation, Pandemic Prevention Institute, New York City, New York, United States. * 5 Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil. * 6 Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane (ILMD), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ

, institutions, businesses and systems to survive, adapt, and generate new ways of thinking and functioning no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience. 1.2 Glasgow’s resilience strategy In 2014 Glasgow became part of 100 Resilient Cities – an international learning network pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation. As part of the city’s commitment to the network Glasgow City

our planet to the extent that support of human health by the environment will become unsustainable. This concept was explored in a joint commission by The Lancet and the Rockefeller Foundation, which defined planetary health as ‘the health of human civilisation and the state of the natural systems on which it depends.’ 25 The global increase in life expectancy and decrease in poverty and child

tool provides a comprehensive global framework for measuring resilience (including health-related individual and community resilience) at a city level (46–48). Development, testing and implementation of the City Resilience Index have been led by Arup International Development with support from the Rockefeller Foundation. Its primary purpose is as a tool for city decision-makers

in an existing military hospital in France, and then relocate to the United States. Cushing was unsuccessful in acquiring funding for this project despite appeals to the army and to the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations. By 1920 the idea had faded from memory. In 1933 Wilder Penfield was successful in obtaining funding from the Rockefeller Foundation for the creation of the Montreal Neurological Institute

Syndemic anemia in British Malaya: An early global health encounter with hookworm and malaria co-infections in plantation workers. With the establishment of the International Health Commission in 1913, the Rockefeller Foundation sought governmental partnerships overseas to combat hookworm disease and improve feces disposal practices. In the Madras Presidency in British India, the India Research with the apparent infeasibility of improving feces disposal practices and the obdurate fact of re-infection with hookworm after purgative treatment, the Rockefeller Foundation ended its hookworm initiative in British Malaya without advocating for programmatic intervention against syndemic anemia. The essay concludes with a reflection on the engagement of historians with the syndemic paradigm.

population of wearable technology users, these sensor data could be integrated into viral surveillance programmes. The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the US National Institutes of Health, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Amazon Web Services.

Foundation award to Christophe Fraser. Moritz U.G. Kraemer was supported by the Branco Weiss Fellowship, Google.org, the Oxford Martin School, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the European Union Horizon 2020 project MOOD (#874850). The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission. Contributions from Srinivas

in relation to the green agenda, with sustainable food being an integral part of that agenda. Alastair also noted that Glasgow had been successful in joining the Rockefeller Foundation’s Resilient Cities Network Alastair Brown, Head of Sustainability and Environment at Glasgow City Council to help Glasgow become a resilient city which will involve improving energy and transport