Time to invest in global resilience

Time to Invest in Sickle Cell Anemia as a Global Health Priority.

DOI: 10.1542/peds.2016-0348 Accepted for publication Mar 16, 2016 Address correspondence to Patrick T. McGann, MD, MS, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229. E-mail: [email protected] PEDIATRICS (ISSN Numbers: Print, 0031-4005; Online, 10984275). Copyright © 2016 by the American Academy of Pediatrics FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE: The author has indi...

Commodities for better health in Africa--time to invest locally.

Editorials 387 With a rapidly expanding consumer market , African countries have new opportunities to strengthen their manufacturing sectors. The current climate of rising foreign investment will boost national economies and has the potential to benefit the health sector too. African countries now have a historic opportunity to free themselves from a vicious cycle of poverty, disease and depend...

Resilience to Global Food Supply Catastrophes

Many global catastrophic risks threaten major disruption to global food supplies, including nuclear wars, volcanic eruptions, asteroid and comet impacts, and plant disease outbreaks. This paper discusses options for increasing the resilience of food supplies to these risks. In contrast with local catastrophes, global food supply catastrophes cannot be addressed via food aid from external locati...

Optimal Time to Invest Energy Storage System under Uncertainty Conditions

This paper proposes a model to determine the optimal investment time for energy storage systems (ESSs) in a price arbitrage trade application under conditions of uncertainty over future profits. The adoption of ESSs can generate profits from price arbitrage trade, which are uncertain because the future marginal prices of electricity will change depending on supply and demand. In addition, since...

When to invest in high speed rail