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How we’re helping partners with improved and expanded AI-based flood forecasting

Devastating floods cause tragic casualties, widespread displacement and immense financial loss every year. To help governments, NGOs, global organizations and vulnerable communities take action, we’ve worked on breakthrough AI research to provide accurate flood information and bolster climate resiliency. Our team at Google Research has pioneered scalable global flood forecasting models, published in Nature, that […]

The storm that shook the world: 11 years after Yolanda, disaster readiness has improved, but gaps remain in social support, supplies | Bless Aubrey Ogerio

ON the 11th anniversary of Super Typhoon Yolanda (international: Haiyan), a Harvard University survey revealed that Filipinos are more disaster-aware than ever, showing a 42-percent increase in their self-reported readiness over the past seven years. The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) study measured disaster preparedness across five criteria, such as planning, training, material investment, information, and […]

Hongkongers to get faster, cheaper access to new medicines under improved system

Hongkongers will have quicker and cheaper access to new medications when the Hospital Authority starts centralising new drug assessments and improving its procurement system to cut introduction times to its formulary by five months. The authority’s chief pharmacist, William Chui Chun-ming, said on Thursday doctors would no longer need to go through the assessment at […]