AIChE Appoints Darlene S. Schuster as New CEO and Executive Director

New York, NY, April 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Board of Directors of AIChE®, the Global Home of Chemical Engineers, announced today that Darlene S. Schuster, PhD, AIChE’s current Chief of Technical Operations, Membership, and Business Development, has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of the Institute. An experienced business […]

New Gavi Risk Sharing Partnership with MedAccess and the Open Society Foundations to help meet country demand for COVID-19 vaccines

New York, April 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Gavi, MedAccess, and the Open Society Foundations announce a new partnership to create an innovative Risk Sharing Facility to support the COVAX Cost-Sharing Mechanism. The partnership aims to build on intensive efforts by Gavi to extend its suite of innovative financing instruments to help donors and countries […]

IGAD welcomes South Sudan deal on unification of forces

JUBA— The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has welcomed the agreement signed by South Sudan’s main peace parties on the unification of command forces, in a move to form one professional army.In a statement, IGAD’s Executive Secretary W…