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Public Health Vaccines wins more BARDA funding for Sudan and Bundibugyo Ebola vaccines
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Public Health Vaccines said June 9, 2026, it won an added BARDA option worth more than $33 million to advance a Sudan ebolavirus vaccine and two Bundibugyo ebolavirus candidates.
Shannon Fernando’s TEDx talk on aid and food security is now live
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Shannon Fernando has released her TEDxBeverlyGrove talk, which centers on a 2019 mission to Turkana, Kenya and the longer effort to move Ethiopian crop Enset across an international border into Kenya.
TEDx talk says hunger is a permission problem, not a scarcity problem
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Alabaster International founder Shannon Fernando-Rubera released a TEDxBeverlyGrove talk arguing that hunger solutions already exist in communities but are often blocked by outside systems.
Helios AI launches hunger exposure index with $3M W23 Global investment
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Helios AI unveiled a new global Hunger Exposure Index ahead of Climate Week NYC to rank countries’ vulnerability to climate, trade and geopolitical shocks.
ICN launches #NursesforPeace bulletin on World Humanitarian Day
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The International Council of Nurses marked World Humanitarian Day by publishing a new #NursesforPeace bulletin and renewing calls to end attacks on health workers.
Kenya harvests first enset crop in historic cross-border trial
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Researchers in Kenya have harvested the first cultivated enset plant ever grown on Kenyan soil, marking a four-year collaboration led by Alabaster International and partners from Ethiopia and Kenya.
Shannon Fernando frames hunger as a permission problem in TEDxBeverlyGrove talk
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Shannon Fernando, founder of Alabaster International, used her TEDxBeverlyGrove 2026 talk to argue that lasting food security depends less on scarcity than on access, trust and institutional permission.
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