IAEA Flagship Initiatives
Mr Grossi shared achievements of the IAEA’s flagship initiatives, and technical cooperation programme, which is the focus of the Technical Assistance and Cooperation Committee meeting this week. Atoms4Food initiative continues to improve food security.
The International High-Level Forum on NUTEC Plastics will be hosted next week in Manila, Philippines, marking five years of the NUTEC achievements.
Almost 100 countries have now joined the IAEA’s Rays of Hope: Cancer Care for All initiative. The IAEA is partnering with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to develop training curricula for pediatric cancer care and supporting experts in AI.
“Since Rays of Hope was established almost three years ago, new cancer facilities have been established … Hospitals are being built. Technology is being transferred. This is changing the reality on the ground,” Mr Grossi said.
ZODIAC is using science and international collaboration to detect viruses and diseases to prevent pandemics. ZODIAC and the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (VETLAB) Network, supported scientists in Senegal sequenced the full genome of the Rift Valley Fever virus, impacting Senegal, Mauritania and Gambia.