EWC researcher Sumeet Saksena and several colleagues write in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that building networks of smarter cities can combat outbreaks of diseases like coronavirus.
Six fellows from the U.S., Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines attended their first program in Tokyo, where they were greeted by CRS Visiting Professor Mr. Akira Igata. Read about this year's cohort.
Grad students from more than 25 countries gathered Feb. 13-15 to share intedisciplinary research at this year's student-run conference, one of the largest of its kind worldwide.
The East-West Center has again been ranked #4 in a University of Pennsylvania institute’s 2019 list of best government-affiliated think tanks worldwide, the same ranking the Center received in last year’s list. In addition, the Center ranked ninth in the Best Regional Studies (Free Standing) category. ...more...
The Center's Professional Development Program has been awarded a five-year grant totaling $50,000 from the Fish Family Foundation in support of the Center’s Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar and #galswithLEI Forum, which seek to enhance women’s leadership and entrepreneurial capacity. ...more...
The State of Hawai'i's 2020 Climate Conference was held at Imin Center in January, featuring keynote speaker author David Wallace-Wells (pictured) and many other sessions focusing on the communications aspects of what it will take to make the state “climate ready.”
This year's 13 Pacific Islands Leadership Program with Taiwan fellows recently concluded their two-month program with a special completion ceremony in Taipei. Applications for the 2020 PILP program are being accepted through Feb. 29.
In December, EWC's media exchange staff organized a week-long Indo-Pacific Regional Reporting Tour in Hawai'i for nine senior Thai security journalists sponsored by the US Embassy in Bangkok. The journalists met with a wide variety of US defense and disaster-management officials and experts, as well as local media.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting President and CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison spoke at EWC October 1, delivering a strong call for support of journalistic accuracy and fairness in a era of increasingly fractured digital audiences and media opinion "bubbles." Watch video of Harrison's address.
With international resources and financial support for HIV programs in the region declining, researchers Tim Brown and Wiwat Peerapatanapokin write in a new East-West Wire commentary that it is more important than ever for prevention efforts to achieve maximum impact by targeting the key populations most at risk. ...more...
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