The COVID-19 pandemic spurred substantial debate over how to rapidly develop new vaccines, produce billions of doses, and distribute them globally. Central to these debates are the roles of intellectual property, technology transfer, and public funding.
In recent years, place-based innovation has attracted renewed attention from policymakers and major new funding, including over $80 billion in federal support for historically overlooked regions.
We invite you to join us for the Global Conversations taking place in Washington D.C. highlighting 11 award-winning journalists and communication professionals who are part of the prestigious Humphrey Fellowship program, based at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The session will go over the following topics:
This is a virtual information session for both IRLS Fellows and ASU Law Students who would like to learn more about working with Joanna Naples-Mitchell from the Zomia Center’s Redress Project. Please follow the URL link below to register, and you will receive the Zoom link for this event.
ASU’s International Rule of Law and Security program invites you to join Richard Gordan, former senior staff member of the International Monetary Fund, Valentina Lana, professor of law at SciencesPo and Jean-Pierre Brun, senior financial sector specialist at the World Bank, to discuss international anti-corruption law and global financial integrity.
Lunch will be provided for all attendees.
This event will take place both in-person and online via livestream.
Shortly after assuming office, President Obama pledged to “restore science to its rightful place” raising but not settling the question of either restoration or place. Fourteen years and two administrations later, we find policies that place science not where it is shielded from all its influences, but rather where it is the heart and center of a national renewal.