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Here’s how ‘science diplomacy’ can help us contain COVID-19

A researcher works in a lab at the Duke-NUS Medical School, which is developing a way to track genetic changes that speed testing of vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Singapore March 23, 2020. Picture taken March 23, 2020. REUTERS/Joseph Campbell - RC2AQF9KBIDT

Scientists can teach us how to work across borders to solve global problems. Image: REUTERS/Joseph Campbell

Marga Gual Soler
Head of Science Diplomacy Capacity Building, GESDA and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader
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