Dr Alison Rivett from The University of Bristol School of Chemistry is working to try and engage children at Trinity Primary School into scientific study.

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"Malaria and dengue fever are two of the mosquito-borne diseases most likely to spread dramatically as global temperatures head upward, " said the Harvard Medical School's Paul Epstein in Scientific American in 2000, in a warning typical of many.

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Keynote speakers include American economist Jeffrey Sachs (by video) who will present the investment and productivity argument for ECCE, Jack Shonkoff, professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Chair of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child in the United States, who will speak on brain research and child development, and Danny Faure, Vice-President of the Seychelles.

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Several institutions are partners in the Miftaah project, in particular the Mohammedia School of Engineering, Morocco, and the Research Centre on Scientific and Technical Information (CERIST), Algeria.

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As a result of poor school achievement, African-Caribbean students are under-represented in scientific careers.

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But Columbia University Professor Ian Lipkin, of the Mailman School of Public Health's Centre for Infection and Immunity, a scientific adviser on Contagion, is not convinced that crowdsourcing is an effective way to combat the spread of contagious diseases.

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But determining whether a business school's mission is ambitious enough, or whether it fulfills that mission, is far from scientific, some deans say.

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She has been responsible for the Research Center for Philosophy and Epistemology School of Graduate Studies in Humanity and Society since July 2009 and was Vice-President of the Scientific Committee of CODESRIA until recently.

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