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Instability in the world order and conflicting models of democracies, shifts in global economic powers, the food-water-energy nexus, climate change and resource scarcity, transformational urbanism, technological and globalization breakthroughs, global health crises, concerns about transnational security, and demographic developments are all megatrends that bear structural impacts on both prosperity and stability, or lack thereof, across the globe. Human mobility, accordingly, stands at the epicenter of all these crosscutting megatrends. The best witness to this claim is the recent Syrian refugee crisis and the current Ukrainian one.These two crises share similarities that could inform future trends of human spatiotemporal movements, at a time governed by fast technological developments and unpredictability of the world order. Both crises have been triggered by political factors, led to the largest and fastest forced people-displacements since World War II, and have tensioned the socio- ....
Annual European Obesity Policy Conference to be held online on March 4, 2021 In conjunction with World Obesity Day Europe, the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) and The European Coalition for People Living with Obesity (ECPO) are organizing the annual European Obesity Policy Conference which will be held online on Thursday, 4 March 2021. The need to implement an outcomes-based approach to health systems design, availability and uptake has never been so clear over the course of the past year. Health stakeholders at EU, national and regional levels are all facing the realities of how to meet the ongoing challenges of the New Reality whilst ensuring the longer-term resilience and sustainability of health systems. ....