Innovation Anthology #319:
For some people, one job just isn’t enough.
Not only is Dr. Axel Meisen the Chair of Foresight at Alberta Innovates Technology Futures, now he is also the new president of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
On the education front, Dr. Meisen will focus on ways for UNESCO to expand adult education.
On the science front, he sees major concerns over health.
DR. AXEL MEISEN: I think a very important part of science that we need to think about and we have to do something about is the field of health sciences. We all know that being healthy is key to one’s present and to one’s future. We all know that the health care system is currently experiencing major cost pressures and those will not go away. We know that many Canadians are not as healthy as they would like to be, So I think there is an opportunity here to enable people to understand the science of health much, much better than what we are currently doing,
Dr. Axel Meisen is looking forward to combining his Foresight work in Alberta with the UNESCO mandate to resolving important health concerns.
Thanks today to Alberta Innovates Technology Futures
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I’M CHERYL CROUCHER
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Program Date: 2010-06-03