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The Harvard School of Public Health published an interview with Till Bärnighausen, associate professor in the Department of Global Health and Population and co-author of our perspective paper on HIV/AIDS. It’s cheap, and it can be done safely, including by nurses and clinical officers,” said...

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With the conclusion of the post-2015 youth forums in various countries, Bjorn Lomborg has begun writing a series of country specific op-ed articles which discuss the post-2015 target selected by the young people in each country. So far, these articles have been published in Colombia , Ecuador ,...

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Bjorn Lomborg met with the president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, to discuss the importance of prioritizing smart targets within the post-2015 development agenda. President Juan Manuel Santos welcomed the expert panel outcome document findings of the 19 most bang-for-the-buck post-2015 targets...

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Bjorn Lomborg recently presented the findings of the Post-2015 Consensus on the smartest global targets for the next 15 years at Harvard University, where he also talked to Harvard's "Effective Altruism" students and the annual Harvard Ministerial Forum for Finance Ministers which brings together...

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The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship is the premier international platform for advancing entrepreneurial approaches and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Our mission is to accelerate the impact of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs by uniting them with essential...

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The world’s greatest environmental threat disproportionately harms women and children, particularly in the developing world: it is indoor air pollution. The World Health Organization estimates that indoor pollution kills 4.3 million people a year, mainly because 2.8 billion people still use...

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Nobel Laureate economists Finn Kydland and Thomas Schelling, together with University of Chicago professor Nancy Stokey, have prioritised the 19 best value-for-money targets for the world to focus on over the next 15 years. Together with Bjorn Lomborg, they write in the world's biggest English-...

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Bjorn’s April contribution to Project Syndicate discusses health targets for the post-2015 development agenda. Specifically, the results from our research on smart targets to tackle infectious diseases. West Africa’s Ebola epidemic has dominated headlines for much of the last year. But, as...

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Over the past 18 months, the Post-2015 Consensus brought together renowned experts from the United Nations (UN), non-governmental (NGO) and private sectors with 60 teams of economists to produce 100+ research papers to establish the most effective targets for the post-2015 development agenda within...

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Do you know what black carbon is? It is killing millions of Indian women each year as reported in an article by the Associated Press. The article cites the findings from Post-2015 Consensus research on smart solutions to tackle air pollution as well as quotes Bjorn Lomborg on what are the best bang...

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