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TWAS-Samira Omar Innovation for Sustainability Award

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Our planet, and therefore our existence, faces several challenges: world population, food security, climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity/poor sanitation, energy resources. Sustainability involves considering the relationship between the finite resources of the planet and the way of life adopted by humans: in what way can our existence be maintained and at what level?

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TWAS-Abdool Karim Award in Biological Sciences

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TWAS is inviting nominations for the 2025 Award from all its members as well as science academies, national research councils, universities and scientific institutions in developing and developed countries.

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The award recognizes women scientists for their achievements in Biological Sciences.

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TWAS Siwei Cheng Award in Economic Sciences

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Introduction

The award reflects the Chinese Academy of Sciences' strong support to TWAS and, more generally, seeks to build scientific capacity in the developing world. Bai Chunli, president of both the Chinese Academy and TWAS, played a central role in the creation of the TWAS-Siwei Cheng Award.

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TWAS-Fayzah M. Al-Kharafi Award

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TWAS is inviting nominations for the 2025 Award from all its members as well as science academies, national research councils, universities and scientific institutions in developing and developed countries.

Self nominations (i.e. applications) WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

Eligibility:

Nominations for the 2025 award are invited in Medical Sciences.

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Kazembe, Lawrence Ndekeleni

Kazembe, Lawrence Ndekeleni

Current nationality
Malawi
Current country of residence
Namibia
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Lawrence Ndekeleni Kazembe is an Associate Professor in applied statistics at the University of Namibia, since 2012, having serving in a similar position at the University of Malawi. He obtained his MSc (2000) in mathematical sciences at Eastern Mediterranean University and PhD (2007) in quantitative epidemiology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He was a postdoctoral research fellow on the Medical Research Council of South Africa and junior lecturer in applied statistics at the University of Malawi. He has been a consultant for the Ministry of Health in Zambia and the Malaria Alert Centre of the College of Medicine at the University of Malawi. He has been involved in research projects that have involved the spatial analysis of malariometric indices, statistical mapping of malaria risk in the Southern African Region, urbanization and malaria, spatial analysis and mapping. He is currently working on a project funded by the World Health Organization and the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) focused on the prediction of malaria risk in flood-altered environments in the lower Shire valley, Malawi.
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Last updated on 12/07/2023
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