Dr Anthony Dona1, Ms Liz Smee2
1Digital Science, Sydney, Australia, 2Digital Science, Adelaide, Australia
We are now halfway through the blueprint introduced by the United Nations in 2015 which outlined seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to achieve a ‘better and more sustainable future for all’. The seventeen goals generated were adopted with the intention of delivering on the targets and outcomes proposed by 2030. Given the setbacks introduced by the global pandemic, delivering on these goals is more important now than ever, as is the basic need to track our progress towards these goals. A report released in 2021 by the United Nations has conveyed the latest data available revealing the impact the pandemic has made on the worlds progress to the seventeen outcomes. During this presentation, we analyse research outputs (as well as awarded grant applications) that have been mapped to the SDGs. From this we were able to make implications regarding our region and how it is contributing to the goals outcomes. We were also able to assess whether organisations or regions have pivoted their focus in the last couple of years due to the pandemic, and the impacts that it has had on the perceived progress towards the SDGs. Our team assesses data from 2015 to understand how our regions institutions and funding agencies have changed their priorities and the implications this has on the grants that have been successfully awarded. We also investigate country and chronological trends to understand whether the impact of the pandemic has noticeable effects on the SDGs research trends in our region.
Biography:
Anthony completed his doctorate in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Sydney in 2010. From there, Anthony moved to London to help build and managed the National Phenome Centre at the Imperial College of London. He specialised in developing and implementing methodologies that marry clinical metadata with comprehensive metabolite measurements. Anthony is also well versed in the biostatistical methods used to interrogate the resulting data. Anthony returned to Australia in 2015 and is now a Senior Director at Digital Science working with Government and Funders across the Asia Pacific enabling them to better assess, fund, and implement novel research.