Today, Auður Guðjónsdóttir addressed the Health Committee of the Nordic Council during this year’s Nordic Council Session , held in Iceland from October 28 to October 31 . As a dedicated advocate for spinal cord injury research and treatment, Auður emphasized the urgent need for increased collaboration and investment in finding a cure for paralysis. Her speech highlighted the critical role that the Nordic countries can play in advancing neurological research and improving the quality of life for those affected by spinal cord injuries. The Nordic Council’s commitment to health and innovation presents a unique opportunity to push for stronger initiatives, research funding, and policy changes that could accelerate breakthroughs in spinal cord injury treatment. By addressing the Health Committee , Auður continues to champion the cause, ensuring that spinal cord injuries remain a priority issue on the Nordic agenda .
Recently, the new advertisement from the Icelandic Spinal Cord Injury Institute, “A Call to the World to Cure Paralysis,” has been aired on RÚV and across social media. In Iceland alone, it has been viewed over a million times on social media platforms.
Letter nr. 3 from Amina J. Mohammed
Reyply nr. 3 from UN
A grant for the University of Iceland. University Rector Dr. Jón Atli Benediktsson, Prof. Thor Aspelund and Auður Guðjónsdóttir Registered Nurse OR Chairman of ISCI. Name of project: Spinal cord injuries and AI. Mænuskaðastofnun Íslands styrkir Háskóla Íslands. Heiti verkefnis: Mænuskaði og gervigreind
Your Excellency,The main purpose of this letter is to ask you, the world’s most powerful person in healthcare matters, to officially proclaim to the world that a cure for paralysis must be found and to encourage financial forces, artificial intelligence specialists, researchers and doctors to join hands to combine and share the scientific knowledge on the nervous system which already exists.Read the article
14.1 G. Draft omtersectoral global action plan on epilepsy and other neurological disorders in support of universal health coverage (document A75/10 Add.4).Thank you Chair, I am addressing the Agenda item 14.1 G. Draft intersectoral global action plan on epilepsy and other neurological disorders in support of universal health coverage.Read the article page 1Read the article page 2
Dear madame president,I want to thank Dr. Tedros for his sincere speech yesterday, for true leadership in difficult times and reflecting on that sadly we are regularly confronted with the trehats ad consecvences and war.Yet, knowing and believe that peace is a prerequisite for well-being.Read the article
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).Letter nr.4 to Dr. Tetros Ghebreyesus Managing Director of WHO from Audur Gudjonsdootir Chairman ISCI about Global Action plan of Epilepsy and other neurological disorders
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
WRITTEN BY SUPER USER ON 05 JANUARY 2021. POSTED IN NEWS. Thank you. I am speaking on item 11.6 on the agenda.Iceland thanks the Russian Federation for the leadership on this important topic and is pleased to support the resolution as a co-sponsor. We do so as we have, with many other partners over recent years, highlighted the heavy global burden of neurological conditions, being the second leading cause of death and a leading cause of disability in the world with estimated one in three people having a neurological disorder at some point in their lifetime.READ THE SPEECH
The Seventy-third World Health Assembly,Having considered the consolidated report by the Director-GeneralRecognizing that epilepsy and other neurological disorders are the leading cause disability-adjusted life years and the second leading cause of death worldwide, and that epilepsy and other neurological disorders have a disproportionate impact on people living in low- and middle-income countries;READ THE LETTER