UN Space and Global Health Expert Group

Dr. Ajit Babu, CAGH Director was at the UN, Vienna in 2017 and 2018 as a member of the Expert Group on Space and Global Health, which is an official UN group that meets each year as a side meeting to a General Assembly meeting. He had the great pleasure of being invited by the Indian delegation to be seated with them while the Assembly was in session. Represented at the Expert Group meeting were UNOOSA as well as NASA and space agencies of France and Japan along with national representatives from Germany, Canada, Russia and Switzerland. CAGH was the only NGO having representation at this conclave. Dr. Chandana Unnithan, CAGH Executive Committee Member, participated in 2018 and she has subsequently been nominated as an official national representative of Australia to the Expert Group. 

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Ajit with the German delegate Prof. Engelbert Niehaus and Committee Chair Pascal Michel, Chief Scientific Officer for Public Health Agency, Canada