GYA members published a policy brief on capacity building of young science leaders, accepted by the United Nations for the Multistakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs.
The initiative was led by GYA alumna Paulina Carmona-Mora (School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, United States), GYA members Luciana Balboa (Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas en Retrovirus y Sida, Argentina) and Nadia De León Sautú (Centro de Investigación Educativa Panamá, and Sistema Nacional de Investigación, SecretarÃa de Ciencia, TecnologÃa e Innovación, Panama), along with alumna Sandra López-Vergès (Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health Studies, Panama).
Workshop participants at the LAC-SLP meeting.
The authors made the case that tailored capacity building programs like the Science Leadership Program – Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC-SLP) can improve science-policy-society interfaces and inspire scientists as regional agents of change for sustainable development.
United Nations Science-Policy Briefs are an essential part of the 9th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum), and provide background knowledge to inform discussions, as well as perspectives of the civil society to the High-level Political Forum (HLPF), which will be held in July 2024, as well as the UN Summit of the Future in September 2024.
Read more about the LAC-SLP here.