Alliance for Science Live kicks off June 15

Three Alliance for Science correspondents — Nkechi Isaac, Joseph Opoku Gakpo and Verenardo Meeme — discuss the current situation in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya, respectively, in response to COVID-19, associated conspiracy theories and food security.

Moderator: Joan Conrow, AfS managing editor

Join a conversation between Natalia Pasternak Taschner, PhD, director of Instituto Questão de Ciência (Question of Science Institute) in São Paulo and Joan Conrow, AfS managing editor, as they discuss Brazil’s response to COVID-19 and how a growing anti-science sentiment is affecting the country’s approach to public health.

Greg Jaffe, director of  the Project on Biotechnology for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, breaks down the long-awaited updates from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to its genetically engineered (GE) organism regulation. The new rules could impact the US food industry’s acceptance of genetically-engineered products and fuel consumer suspicions about biotech crops and foods.

More than 100 vaccine efforts are currently underway in the global push to stop the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the World Health Organization. Which are most likely to work? And how long will it take? Science writer Mark Lynas and AfS Fellow Modesta Nnedinso Abugu take a look at the five most promising candidates.