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The #AtlanticFellows program empowers communities of emerging leaders to advance fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies.
At #COP30, Dorah Marema urges the world to move beyond top-down climate policy.

True resilience comes from communities shaping their own future with real resources, real participation and real power.

Read more from Dorah’s statement: www.cities-and-regions.org/cop-30-presi...
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in Southeast Asia (The Equity Initiative), Dr Renard Siew, is at #COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

Immersed in critical discussions at the intersection of energy, justice and innovation, Renard is shaping the future of Southeast Asia and the Pacific’s energy transition.
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Health Equity in Southeast Asia Fellow (The Equity Initiative), Dr Renard Siew, is at #COP30!

From advancing industrial decarbonisation to championing community-led, just energy solutions, Renard is turning ideas into real-world impact and shaping South East Asia’s future.
#cop30 #accf #cop30 #energytransition #deliverycop #sustainability #yinson | Dr Renard Siew
Big day at #COP30 From the industrial corridors to the grassroots of community leadership, today in Belém the energy sector showed up in full force at COP30 Brazil and in many forms. At Industrial...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
How does Artificial Intelligence impact our society?

Join Laura Bates, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity @nasser.wiki and moderator Alice Wroe XR Lead, Atlantic Institute to explore AI’s ethical, social and equity risks.

📅 Nov 17 2025
🕰️ 3pm GMT
💻 Zoom Live Event: www.eventbrite.com/e/being-huma...
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
1/ At the Rhodes Forum on Technology & Society 2025, we joined changemakers from around the world to imagine a future where prosperity, sustainability and human potential grow for everyone, as we explored the theme of abundance on a global scale.
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Recently, our Executive Director Lysa John joined Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in Southeast Asia in Bangkok. Her reflection celebrates Fellows who lead with purpose, navigate conflict and build solidarity through empathy and shared learning.
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Lessons in leadership: The Equity Initiative
I had the privilege of spending the day with an extraordinary group of leaders in Bangkok, Thailand this week. They come from very different disciplines (some are doctors, others researchers, educator...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Join Creative Brainwaves at dlr Libraries on 14 Nov! Explore how the creative arts support brain health through talks, workshops, & performances promoting wellbeing. 🎭🧠 #BrainHealth #Creativity

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Creative Brainwaves: Talks & Workshops - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
Creative Brainwaves at dlr Libraries on 14 Nov. Explore how creative arts support brain health with talks, workshops, and performances promoting wellbeing.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Director of Innovations & Partnerships at the Atlantic Institute, Harpinder Collacott, shared insights on rethinking how citizens, governments and institutions share decision-making power. She calls for local leadership, fairness and accountability to build more just and sustainable societies.
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Are you working to build a fairer world? 🌍

Applications are now open for the 2026-27 Atlantic Fellows for Social & Economic Equity (AFSEE) programme, a funded fellowship for social change leaders at the London School of Economics - LSE.

Learn more: afsee.atlanticfellows.lse.ac.uk/en-gb/news/a...
October 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Urban growth threatens the lives of communities living in cities.

On #WorldCitiesDay, Kotchakorn Voraakhom, landscape architect and Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in Southeast Asia, urges urban designers to respect nature to create an environment where communities and innovation thrive.
October 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
“Some seats you take; others you build.”

This #BlackHistoryMonth, neuroscientist and Atlantic Fellow Chi Udeh-Momoh reflects on belonging, equity and global collaboration in #BrainHealth.
Atlantic Fellows | Belonging across borders: An African academic’s journey in brain health
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October 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
AI is transforming society - but at what cost?

Join Laura Bates, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity @nasser.wiki and moderator Alice Wroe to explore AI’s ethical, social and equity risks.

📅 Nov 17, 2025
🕰️ 15:00pm GMT
📍 Atlantic Institute XR Lab, Oxford (In-person & live webinar)
October 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
“Seekers”, a film by Atlantic Fellows Mahoro Semege & Tendai Chisirimunhu Kathemba, tells the story of asylum seekers in South Africa.

Inspired by Mahoro’s own refugee journey, the film invites audiences to see asylum seekers as resilient people with visions to challenge the world’s indifference.
Atlantic Fellows | Atlantic Fellows’ film “Seekers” to be screened at a film festival
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October 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Each year, the Atlantic Institute celebrates the ever-growing community of Atlantic Fellows driving equity and change across the world.

This year’s Global Community Book features the values and impact of more than 1,000 Fellows from across the 7 Atlantic programs.
October 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Last night we celebrated Adeniyan Adekemi, an Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity and Roux Prize recipient, whose storybooks and VR film are transforming how children in rural communities learn, dream and lead healthier lives.
October 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Congratulations to Adekemi Adeniyan, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity, who has received the Roux Prize!

The prize is an annual award from David and Barbara Roux and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, honoring global health leaders who combat health inequities in their communities.
Roux Prize 2025 Recipient: Dr. Adekemi Adeniyan
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October 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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In a world often defined by scarcity, this year’s edition of the Rhodes Forum on #TechAndSociety2025 with Equitech Futures invites us to reimagine abundance on a global scale.

📅 8 Nov 2025
📍Oxford & online
🎟️ Register at bit.ly/TechAndSociety2025
October 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Atlantic Fellows Maritza Pintado-Caipa, Alex Kornhuber and Oscar Ramirez, with collaborator Kate Irving, highlight the barriers to health care access among some of Peru’s most underserved communities. Read their recommendations.

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October 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Atlantic Fellows Maritza Pintado-Caipa, Alex Kornhuber and Oscar Ramirez, with collaborator Kate Irving, highlight the barriers to health care access among some of Peru’s most underserved communities. Read their recommendations.

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October 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This #WorldMentalHealthDay, Atlantic Fellow Dr. Maymunah Yusuf Kadiri reminds us that storytelling is a medicine. Not the kind prescribed in a bottle, but the kind that reconnects humanity.

Read more: www.atlanticfellows.org/post/storyte...
October 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Join us for the opening of our Artist in Residence Rebecca Korang's exhibition 'on Black poppies (& Other seeds)' responding to the theme of 'Radical Joy' at Rhodes House on Monday 20 October at 18:00. Everyone is welcome. Sign up for free now: bit.ly/RadicalJoyLa...
September 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
With the climate summit, COP30, on the horizon in November, Atlantic Fellow Peter Gan Kim Soon (@GWFellow) says climate justice means talking to grassroots organizations and communities living on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
October 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“When older persons drive change, everyone moves forward.”

Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health Siobhan Casey reflects on how older people are actively shaping our society, and driving advocacy and innovation at local and global levels.

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Atlantic Fellows | Older persons driving local and global action: Aspirations, well-being and rights
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October 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Believed to be the first Indigenous woman to enroll at @ox.ac.uk, Mākereti Papakura has received a posthumous degree 100 years after she began her studies.

Learn more: www.atlanticfellows.org/news/posthum...
September 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Watch Aline Nogueira Haas and Kunle Adewale, Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health, join experts in arts and health at the Brazil International Arts & Health Festival.

🗓️ Sept. 25
🕰️ 9 am RIO Time
💻 Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM