“The President cannot use federal funding as a weapon to force local governments to undermine public safety and their values and participate in his mass deportation efforts,” said Oren Sellstrom, one of the cities’ attorneys. “Today’s lawsuit seeks to prot...
It supervises the operations of all the Panchayat Samitis and Gram Panchayats within its jurisdiction and facilitates the distribution of funding across all Gram Panchayats . Importantly, ZP is in charge of developing district-level development plans. Similar to Gram Panchayat, District Panchayat is...
Several approaches to institutionalizing science advice for public health emergencies have been proposed in Canada within the past two decades. After SARS, a CIHR-led document review and stakeholder consultation recommended developing a centre of population and public health research evidence, which would ...
best of the authors knowledge, still not visible. After the peak funding within the ENPs field, scientists often shifted to the following new hot topic, micro- and nanoplastics in the environment. Microplastics (MPs) are ubiquitously distributed in the environment. Here, properties of the materials...
For example, China, who has made blockchain adoption a national priority and is already ahead of the U.S. in developing and using the technology [FN2], or Singapore, whose government (among other progressive regulatory actions) is directly funding blockchain projects. [FN3] We believe ...
In 1986, though, the Institute acquired an in-house mixtures interest when the Superfund Research Program (SRP) — formally the NIEHS Hazardous Substance Basic Research and Training Program — was established. Through extramural funding the SRP would support research bearing upon Superfund sites and,...
Notwithstanding the measures in tonight’s Budget, more needs to be done if we are serious about closing the health gap. NACCHO has been working with the Department of Health for over seven years on a new funding model for the ACCHO sector. Currently, most of the funding is tied to histo...
Funding and Staffing for Food Safety Programs Historically, federal funding and staffing levels between FDA and FSIS have been disproportionate to their respective responsibilities for addressing food safety activities. Although FSIS is responsible for roughly 10%-20% of the U.S. food supply, it has...