The Building a Better Response (BBR) project is offering a series of remote learning workshops to strengthen NGO capacity on the international humanitarian coordination system. These 3-day virtual workshops for NGO staff will build on the BBR e-learning course(
www.BuildingABetterResponse.org) to improve understanding of the international coordination system and help participants identify where they can take action and engage directly within the system.
The workshop is scheduled to take place
remotely,
The application deadline for the workshop is
April 14, 2021.
To access the e-learning, you can register here: www.BuildingABetterResponse.org
To watch a 1-minute advertisement about the e-learning, click here: http://youtu.be/RR5ykMyoAJw
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Antibody testing is key to understand immune response to SARS-CoV-2
While PCR testing has been used widely for COVID-19 diagnosis, it only provides information on who is currently infected. Antibody testing can tell who has been previously exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, a metric that is essential for tracking spread across a population.
It may also, as a study recently published in the journal
Nature Communications shows, hold the key to understanding the immune response to the virus.
Led by Galit Alter, PhD, Core Member of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, this study found that while antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 may be a good way to measure exposure to the virus, their presence alone wasn t enough to determine if a person had long-lasting protection. I
01/28/2021
This monthly spotlight series highlights leaders at Harvard Chan to discuss their careers and what drives their work.
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Tim Erickson, an emergency medicine physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, on environmental toxicology and climate change, specifically diving into how issues of wastewater treatment and COVID-19 can help inform future decisions on climate change.
Speaker: Professor Timothy Erickson, emergency medicine physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Faculty, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Date: Jan 28th, 2021
Location: Virtual
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