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IRI Receives Google.org Grant
for Disease Prediction and Prevention
Google.org, the philanthropic arm of the Internet search company, has awarded the IRI $900,000 to work with its partners to improve the use of forecasts, rainfall data and other climate information in East Africa, and to build stronger connections between weather, climate and health specialists so they can better predict and prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases.
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Recent news, publications and other notables...
IRI's Shiv Someshwar speaks at the World Bank Partnership Forum about the challenge of
scaling up adaptation efforts. view
IFRC's World Disasters Report 2007 features IRI drought and famines work (p. 175). view
IRI organizes workshop in Kupang, Indonesia to discuss use of forecasts for food-security planning
in the province of Nusa Tenggara Timur (Timor Express, in Indonesian). view
Upcoming events and seminars...
October 22, 2008: Columbia Water Center Seminar Series: Should We Include the Groundwater in
Global Climate and Earth System Models? view
October 24, 2008: Columbia Water Center and the Department of Earth and Environmental
Engineering Seminar Series: Managing Water in the 21st Century: Lessons from the West. view
October 27, 2008: IRI Seminar: Verification of the First 10 years of African Regional Climate Outlook Forum Forecasts. view
October 28, 2008: IRI Seminar Series on Impact Evaluation for Development Projects:
Exploiting Panel Data for Ex-post Impact Evaluation, Markus Goldstein, World Bank. view
October 29, 2008: IRI Special Seminar: Vector-borne Disease and Climate Change:
The Example of Lyme Disease in Canada. view
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