2021: The Foreign Minister of Iceland Gudlaugur Thor Thordarson at a meeting with Dr. Tetros Ghebreyesus Managing Director WHO about the dire need to find cure for spinal cord injury paralyzes and other neurological disorders.
2022 The Foreign Minister of Iceland Thordis Kolbrun Gylfadottir at a meeting with Dr. Tetros Ghebreyesus Managing Director WHO about spinal cord injury and the Global Action plan on Epilepsy and other Neurological Disorders.
Your Excellency,
The reason why I am writing you a letter this time is twofold. The first is to express fondness for STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 4 in the provisional agenda, submitted to the 150th session of the WHO Executive Board for discussion, in which the Decade of Action for Epilepsy and other neurological disorders are addressed. If successful, this decade of action could be the first signs of achieving the breakthrough in the nervous system that the world so desperately needs, regarding both the care and progress in the cure for paralysis and other damages in the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord).
Your Excellency,
I would like to begin this letter by thanking you and your colleagues for how positive you have been towards Iceland’s desire to add phrases such as potential cure in the nervous system, artificial intelligence, consolidate fragmented research results, spinal cord injury and so on, into your consolidated report for 2020 and also into the draft Global Action Plan for the Nervous System, which I am told will be submitted to the World Health Assembly in May.
A letter from the chairman of ISCI to Tetros Ghebreyesus Director General of WHO
Fostering strategic approaches to research on neurological disorders increasing the attention given to brain health and neurological disorders in national and global research agendas; using artificial intelligence, precision medicine and other novel technologies to consolidate fragmented research results and identify new treatment options with potential to cure more neurological disorders.