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    Events preview: This week in development cooperation

    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been named the new director-general of the World Health Organization at the WHO's 70th general assembly in Geneva, where Devex reporters Jenny Lei Ravelo and Adva Saldinger are on the ground. Check our preview for more events taking place in the coming days.

    By Devex Editor // 23 May 2017
    Delegates at the 70th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo by: L. Cipriani / WHO

    Below are some of the most noteworthy events for the week starting May 22:

    EVENTS IN THE NEXT 7 DAYS

    70th World Health Assembly
    May 22-31
    Geneva, Switzerland

    African Development Bank Annual Meeting
    May 22-26
    Ahmedabad, India

    Innovate4Climate: Finance and Markets Week
    May 22-26
    Barcelona, Spain

    Understanding Financial Education: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Next?
    May 23
    Washington, D.C., United States and online

    China-US Action and Cooperation in the New Age of Global Climate Governance
    May 24
    Beijing, China

    UK General Election: Priorities for International Development
    May 24
    London, United Kingdom

    Investing in R&D from AMR to Zika: Laying the Foundation for Sustainable Development
    May 24
    Geneva, Switzerland

    Better Targeting Food Safety Investments in Low and Middle Income Countries
    May 24
    Brussels, Belgium

    EU-US Leaders' Meeting
    May 25
    Brussels, Belgium

    7 Stories to Change the World
    May 25
    Giardini Naxos, Italy

    From Panic and Neglect to Building Global Health Security: Investing in Pandemic Preparedness at a National Level
    May 25
    Geneva, Switzerland

    Global Health R&D: How Can We Best Set Priorities Based on Evidence?
    May 25
    Geneva, Switzerland

    G7 Summit
    May 26-27
    Sicily, Italy

    Child Development in the SDG Era: What are the Big Implementation, Measurement and Research Questions?
    May 29
    London, United Kingdom

    The Think 20 Summit
    May 29-30
    Berlin, Germany

    International Conference on the IAEA Technical Cooperation Programme: Sixty Years and Beyond — Contributing to Development
    May 30 - June 1
    Vienna, Austria

    2017 SID-Washington Annual Conference
    June 1
    Washington, D.C., United States

    INTERNATIONAL OBSERVANCES

    International Day for Biological Diversity
    May 22

    International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
    May 23

    International Day of UN Peacekeepers
    May 29

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