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BRINGING YOU CURRENT NEWS ON GLOBAL HEALTH & ECOLOGICAL WELLNESS
PLANETARY HEALTH WEEKLY
September 17, 2015 Volume 1, Issue 28
Joint Action Needed on Link Between Human Trafficking and Corruption Human trafficking is a dramatic reality.
Many of the world's estimated 36 million
slaves are trafficked because corrupt
police, customs, judicial and other
officials take bribes from traffickers.
However, the impact of corruption has
been neglected in the development of
policies and measures to tackle human
trafficking.
Read More on trust.org
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
Should not Hesitate to Vaccinate 2
WHO Mishandled the Ebola Crisis
Measles Outbreak in Congo
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Ecuadoreans Sue Chevron in Canada 3
European’s E-Waste
D-livering on INDCs
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Asia-Pacific in Battle Against TB 4
Carbon Credits Undercut Climate
TCM for Aboriginal Women
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Weekly Bulletin: QOTW & Events 5
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FYI: Career Success Isn’t a Mystery 6
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FYI: Five Social Entrepreneurship Reads 7
Scientists Warn of Unprecedented Damage to Forests Across the World
Forests around the world are being affected by humans
both directly by deforestation and indirectly by climate
change. Human impacts such as logging and clearance
for farmland and mining have left less than a quarter of
tropical forests intact. But through the coming century, the
threat of forest clearance will be increasingly combined
with the impacts of rapid climatic changes. Read More on The Carbon Brief
PLANETARY HEALTH WEEKLY
Why We Should Not Hesitate to Vaccinate
Vaccines are widely recognized as the best health
investment available, and their use has increased steadily
since the 1970s, when immunization programs began to
expand. Today, the World Health Organization estimates
that immunization programs contribute to saving the lives
of 2 to 3 million people each year and protect many
millions more from illness and disability from diphtheria,
tetanus, pertussis (DTP3) and measles.
Read More on Devex
PAGE | 2
Measles Outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo an “Epidemic Emergency” In high-income countries, measles is generally seen as
a mild ailment. An epidemic raging in equatorial Africa
proves that the measles virus has not lost its power to
kill. The measles epidemic started in February and has
spread to three of the country's 11 provinces. This
epidemic could become as dramatic as the last one,
which broke out in 2010 and lasted 3 years. It caused
an estimated 300,000 cases and 5000 deaths.
Read More on The Lancet
Ebola's Lessons: How WHO Mishandled the Crisis
Understanding the disastrous international response to
the recent Ebola pandemic in West Africa is important to
ensure mistakes won’t be repeated. WHO has struggled
to remain credible, as its financial resources have shrunk,
tensions have grown between its Geneva headquarters
and its regional offices, and rival multilateral
organizations have taken control over much of the
global health action and agenda.
Read More on Devex
Volume 1, Issue 28
PAGE | 3
D-livering on INDCs
Recently, Djibouti, Dominican Republic and Democratic
Republic of Congo submitted their climate pledges to
the United Nations, formally known as Intended
Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). You can
keep up to date with who's submitted what with Carbon
Brief's Paris Tracker. In the latest effort to tot up what it all
means, Grantham Research Institute says pledges fall
short of the reductions needed to avoid more than 2C of
global warming.
Read More on The Carbon Brief
Only a Third of Europe’s E-Waste Goes Where It Should From handheld LCD screens to big washing machines
and refrigerators, electronic and electrical waste in
Europe isn’t going where it should. Proper disposal
methods for e-waste exist, but many European
consumers and companies don’t use them. Only 3.3
million of 9.45 million tons of discarded e-waste ended
up in official collection and recycling programs in 2012.
Read More on Newsweek
Ecuadoreans Can Sue Chevron in Canada, Supreme Court Rules
Ecuadorean villagers can sue Chevron and its Canadian
subsidiary in an Ontario court to enforce a $9.5 billion
judgment from Ecuador. The ruling has major implications
for Canadian multinational companies whose business
activities raise environmental or human-rights concerns
around the globe. The ruling weakens the so-called
“corporate veil” that has shielded subsidiaries from
responsibility for the actions of their corporate parents.
Read More on The Globe and Mail
September 17, 2015
CURRENTNEWS
PLANETARY HEALTH WEEKLY
Asia-Pacific Unites in Battle Against Tuberculosis
The Asia-Pacific TB Parliamentary Caucus is the first
regional meeting to come out of the Global TB Caucus,
which was established in October 2014. In less than 12
months, the global caucus now counts as members 551
parliamentarians from 81 countries, a massive
achievement to highlight an often overlooked disease,
which kills 1.5 million people annually.
Read More on Devex
PAGE | 4
TCM Health Clinics Reach Out to Aboriginal Women First Nations women facing health issues in Vancouver’s
Downtown Eastside now have a new, unconventional
option for help: Traditional Chinese Medicine. Tzu Chi
Canada, the local branch of the Buddhist non-profit
based in Taiwan, opened the first clinic focusing on the
First Nations community about two years ago. The
response has been so positive that two more Downtown
Eastside locations are now operating.
Read More on The Vancouver Sun
Carbon Credits Undercut Climate Change Action
The UN's carbon credits scheme may have increased
emissions by 600 million tonnes, according to a new
study. Russia and Ukraine in particular come under fire
for using the mechanism to earn money instead of
cutting their greenhouse gas emissions. The useless
credits have undermined the EU's emissions trading
scheme.
Read More on BBC
Volume 1, Issue 28
WEEKLYBULLETIN
EVENTSTABLE
PAGE | 5 September 17, 2015
DATE CONFERENCE LOCATION REGISTER
Oct.
5-9 Ryerson Social Justice Week
Toronto
Canada
http://www.ryerson.ca/
socialjustice/
Nov.
5-7
Canadian Conference on Global Health
2015
Montreal
Canada
http://www.csih.org/en/events/
ccgh2015
Nov.
16-18
2015 Canadian Undergraduate
Conference on Healthcare (CUCOH)
Kingston
Canada http://www.cucoh.com/about
Nov.
18-20
9th World Alliance For Risk Factor
Surveillance (WARFS) & The Americas'
Network for Chronic Disease Surveillance
(AMNET) Global Conference 2015
St. John's
Antigua http://warfs15.squarespace.com
Nov.
25-27
7th Canadian Science Policy Conference
2015
Ottawa
Canada http://www.sciencepolicy.ca/
Apr.
9-11
Annual CUGH Global Health Conference
2016
San Francisco
U.S.A
http://cugh.org/events/2016-
annual-cugh-global-health
QUOTE OF THE WEEK “To say you’re going to ignore that there’s a huge risk here,
the way we’re filling the atmosphere with heat-trapping
gases, is folly, ignorance and totally irresponsible. I don’t
think climate change is anywhere near the issue that it’s
going to be, but the concern is rising in the public mind.
The facts can’t be concealed forever.”
Jerry Brown,
California Governor
Commenting on the giant
drought in his state (August, 2015)
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PAGE | 6 Volume 1, Issue 28
Lean In: Career Success Isn't a Mystery, It's Hard Work
There’s no mystery. Just work!
Follow your heart and be there.
Be yourself, always. Be truthful to yourself and to your principles, to what you think, because at
the end of the day, it’s about being passionate in what you do.
Don't sit at the back of the room waiting for someone to invite you to sit at the table. If you
have things to say, be there, be heard and don’t be afraid.
Work with others so that they can understand that you are prepared to collaborate. Reach
out, work with people, talk to them so they know where you’re coming from and they’ll
understand.
Read More on Devex
FYI
September 17, 2015 PAGE | 7
FYI
Five Social Entrepreneurship Must-Reads
Here are five must-reads that explore what social entrepreneurship is, how it can deliver
sustainable impact, and the entrepreneurship ecosystem as a whole.
1. The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship
2. Reshaping Social Entrepreneurship
3. Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
4. Two Keys to Sustainable Social Enterprise
5. 2014 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
Read More on Devex
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Professor Wang Wei, head of the Genomics Institute at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia and
former Dean of Family Medicine and Public Health at Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
explaining how Traditional Chinese Medicine integrates well with the theory of Sub-Optimal Health
at a conference in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China - September 12, 2015.
See Prof. Wang's recent paper: http://www.epmajournal.com/content/5/1/4
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