2023-05-30

Dr. Glenn Fernandez joins the Future Earth Assembly

Dr. Glenn Fernandez, an Associate Professor at IDMR, has joined the Future Earth Assembly as one of the ten representatives of Early Career Researchers across the world. He is the only representative from Southeast Asia. Future Earth is a global initiative focused on advancing Sustainability Science. It is composed of researchers and scholars from various parts of the world, across different so...

2023-05-30

Dr. Basanta Raj Adhikari contributes to Nepalese Disaster Risk Reduction and Management

Dr. Basanta Raj Adhikari, a distinguished part-time associate professor of the Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, Sichuan University-The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, was nominated as the Coordinator of the Academic and Research-Based Organizations Thematic Group of the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR), Nepal. He is also faculty member of the Departme...

2023-05-30

Publication of first trial on effectiveness of telerehabilitation after Covid-19 by Chinese researchers

On 26 July researchers from Jiangsu, Hubei, and Sichuan published the first randomised-controlled clinical trial evaluating a telerehabilitation program for patients with Covid-19 in one of the world leading pulmonology journals BMJ-Thorax. Under the leadership of Professors Jian’an LI, MD from Jiangsu Province Hospital/Nanjing Medical University and Jan D. REINHARDT, PhD from Sichuan Universi...

2023-05-30

The International Online Conference to Address Water-Related Disasters under COVID-19 was held successfully on August 20, 2020

The International Online Conference to address Water-Related Disasters under COVID-19 was held virtually on Thursday 20th August 2020. The Online Conference was jointly organized by the High-Level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters (HELP), the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), the Asian De...