Bio.Diaspora is a scientific project dedicated to understanding the health implications of surging global population mobility. Bio.Diaspora recently developed an easy-to-use, web-based, enterprise GIS application, that in real-time, can generate and deliver customized, actionable intelligence about how the world's population is moving through the global airline transportation network. This application has been integrated with a live stream of global epidemic intelligence coming from HealthMap, which offers users early insights into where dangerous infectious disease threats are emerging and how they are most likely to spread around the world. Bio.Diaspora was founded by Dr. Kamran Khan, an infectious disease clinician and scientist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, and an Associate Professor of Medicine with the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Toronto. Dr. John Brownstein is a co-founder of HealthMap and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, with joint appointments in the Children's Hospital Boston Informatics Program and Division of Emergency Medicine. For more information about Bio.Diaspora, please visit us at www.biodiaspora.com or contact us at info@biodiaspora.com. For more information about HealthMap, please visit us at www.healthmap.org. Video copyright April 2011 Produced by Medical Media, St. Michael's Hospital Videography/Editing: Katie Cooper
www.weforum.org 28.01.2010 Globalization has signified the expansion and interconnection of world markets, but paradoxically stronger and more effective national action is essential to achieve global cooperation. How can global cooperation be advanced as nation states become more interdependent? Samir Al Rifai, Prime Minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Michael Froman, Deputy Assistant to the US President; Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economic Affairs, USA HRH Haakon of Norway, Crown Prince of Norway; Chair of the YGL Global Redesign Task Force; Young Global Leader; Global Agenda Council on Values Indra Nooyi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, pepsico, USA; Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum; Global Agenda Council on the Role of Business George Yeo Yong-Boon, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Singapore Moderated by Lord Malloch-Brown, Senior Adviser, Global Redesign Initiative, World Economic Forum