PM Narendra Modi to deliver keynote address at Grand Challenges Annual Meeting on October 19
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will ship a keynote tackle on the inaugural perform of Grand Challenges Annual Meeting 2020, on October 19 at 7:30 PM by way of video conferencing.
“The Grand Challenges Annual Meeting, for the last 15 years, has fostered international innovation collaborations to address the biggest challenges in health and development,” stated the Prime Minister’s Office.
The Grand Challenges Annual Meeting will convene just about from October 19-21.
“It will bring together policymakers and scientific leaders, calling for deepened scientific collaborations in solving global health problems, with great emphasis on COVID-19 with an “India for the World” framing,” added PMO.
World leaders, eminent scientists and researchers from throughout the globe will be a part of this annual assembly to debate key priorities for accelerating progress throughout the Sustainable Development Goals within the post-pandemic world and elaborate on addressing the challenges to handle COVID-19.
The three-day program will characteristic leaders talks, panel discussions and digital casual conversations on subjects starting from scientific interventions for preventing the pandemic, managing the pandemic and accelerating the event and implementation of worldwide options to fight this pandemic and forestall the subsequent one.
Approximately 1600 individuals from 40 nations will take part on this Annual assembly.
The Grand Challenges Annual Meeting will likely be co-hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India, the Indian Council of Medical Research and NITI Aayog, together with the Grand Challenges Canada, the United States Agency for International Development and Wellcome.
Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare, Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Harsh Vardhan, will ship the opening remarks.
Bill Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will current the plenary framing dialog.
This is to be famous that the Grand Challenges India was arrange as a partnership of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2012, and Wellcome additionally joined the partnership.
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