Managers of the vast exercise in setting the global, progressive agenda for the next 15 years known as the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) decided it would be “too dangerous” to reopen the ...

The Cabinet Office’s panel of experts has compiled a draft final report on the future of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ). To ensure the SCJ can fully utilize its unique capacity to offer fully ...

The embattled Science Council of Japan has on the whole accepted the government’s plan to incorporate it as an independent organization, although it continues to have some reservations. The council ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is soliciting the interest of internationally-renowned experts to serve on its Science Council, one of the Organization’s highest-level advisory bodies to the WHO ...

A scientific advisory body set up by the World Health Organization met for the first time April 27 and began discussing how genomic technologies could be better used in global health. The WHO’s ...