OverviewThe main objective of the SSUNGA76 virtual meetings will be to raise awareness of the role and contribution of science to the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The event will also demonstrate initiatives that provide models for global science mechanisms and activities in support of the SDGs, particularly in the area of science infrastructure and capacity building.
Draft running order at 06h21, Tuesday 14 September 2021All times are Central European Summer Time (CEST), Brussels/Rome/Madrid (NYC
minus 6 Hours; Nairobi
plus 1 hour; Tokyo
plus 7 Hours)
15h00 Mr Declan Kirrane Chair
, Science Summit at the 76th United Nations General Assembly
(SSUNA76), Spain
15h10 Prof Mark Ferguson Science Foundation Ireland
15h20 Prof Sir Peter Gluckman President-Elect, International Science Council
15h30 Dr Magdalena Skipper Editor in Chief,
Nature, UK
15h40 Ms Maria Cristina Russo Director for Global Approach and International Cooperation, European Commission, Belgium
15h50 Prof Intisar Soghayroun Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Sudan
16h00 Dr Marcia McNutt President, National Academy of Sciences, USA
Moderator Professor Orla Feely Vice President for Research, University College Dublin, Ireland
16h10 Dr Patrick Worms Centre for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry, Belgium
16h20 Prof George Church Harvard University, USA
16h30 Dr Klaus Uckel, Executive Director, DLR Project Management Agency, Germany
16h40 Dr Stefano Bertuzzi, Chief Executive Officer, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), USA
16h50 Dr Rolf Apweiler Director, The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Germany
17h00 Dr Sri Fatmawati President of Indonesian Young Academy of Sciences
17h10 Ms Rahma Rachdi Paris Correspondent, United States Press Agency
17h20 Dr Michael Makanga Director, European Development Countries Clinical Trails Partnership (EDCTP), Netherlands
ModeratorDr Rita Lawlor PhD. CIPP/E, CIPM, Fellow of Information Privacy (IAPP)
Biobank and Model Bank Director, ARC-NET Centre for Applied Research on Cancer
University of Verona, Italy
17h30 Sister Regina Nthenya AOSK Health Network Coordinator, Nairobi, Kenya
17h40 Dr Nevan Krogan Quantitative Biosciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco
17h50 Dr Jacqueline Fabius Chief Operating Officer, Quantitative Biosciences Institute
18h00 Prof Gilles Bloch President, National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France
18h10 Ms Sumitra Rajagopalan CEO, Bioastra, Canada
18h20 MEP Eva Kaili European Parliament, Brussels
18h30 Dr Juan Miguel González-Aranda LifeWatch ERIC Chief Technology Officer and ERIC Forum Executive Board member
18h40 Prof Ian Jones Chairman,
InnoPharma, Ireland
Moderator Ms Mei Lin Fung People-Centred Internet, Singapore
18h50 Ms Faatiha Aayat CHIL&D, Founder, USA
19h00 Dr Bernard Bigot ITER, Director-General, France
19h10 Prof Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Former President, European Research Council
19h20 Dr Alex Cahana DT Block Health Group, Africa
19h30 Dr Max Paoli Programme Coordinator, The World Academy of Sciences, UNESCO-TWAS, Italy
19h40 Prof Kurt Zatloukal Medical University Graz, Austria
19h50 Dr Kevin Govender Director, IAU Office of Astronomy for Development, South Africa
20h00 Dr Marta Fernández Suárez Senior Director of R&D, FIND, the Global Alliance for Diagnostics
20h10 Ms Nikiwe Bam (SMT) Academy, South Africa
20h20 Dr Nonhlanhla Lunjani University of Cape Town, South Africa
20h20 ConclusionsThe global pandemic has shown how collaboration on science can mobilize a range of stakeholders to produce solutions. The evidence needs to create a dynamic and enabling policy and regulator environment at the global level. And this is why the UN General Assembly needs to consider research and development, science and innovation
Science is and will enable sustainable economic, environmental, and societal development. Science is more than a funding prioritisation exercise: science is impacting all areas of policy-making and is playing a more important role in how policy objectives are achieved and the consequent benefit to people everywhere including response to global challenges.
Engagement with policy leadership is more important than ever: UNGA is a unique forum for science to demonstrate how policy and political leadership can benefit from innovation. Central to this is the role of nonstate actors and the multilateral fora which are increasingly determining how priorities are set. Science needs to be part of this dialogue and inform outputs, through thought leadership, providing evidence, insights and analysis and innovation.
The
UNGA76 Science Summit will examine the enabling policy, regulatory and financial environment needed to establish and sustain the science mechanisms, capacities required to support genuinely global scientific collaboration collaborations across continents, across nations and themes.
Attainment of the SDGs will require alignment on policy and regulation that impact science and technology. Alignment is necessary to ensure access to date and the resulting innovation. It is also necessary to enable the rapid sharing of data, the fair use of data and related benefit sharing.
