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• Emily has been a key member of Solve's leadership team for more than eight years and played a critical role in securing $1.25 billion RECOVER NIH funding for Long Covid research.
• Solve Board Chair John Nicols states, "We congratulate Emily and look forward to her leadership."
• Solve also announces the publication of their newest white paper, co-authored by Emily, " A Home for Infection-Associated Chronic Conditions and Illnesses (IACCIs) at NIH ."
• BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color), Latino/Latina, LGBTQIA+, and marginalized, underserved and economically disadvantaged populations are disproportionately impacted by IACCIs.

• While hundreds of thousands of British men did, indeed, volunteer to serve in the first flush of jingoistic patriotism in 1914, the manpower well soon began to run dry.
• Despite this, however, some form of conscription does still exist today in most European countries.
• But as the implications of Russia’s war against Ukraine come to be better understood, introducing or extending conscription is increasingly being discussed in European Nato states.

• But, over the past few months, political leaders in both countries have been discussing the reintroduction of forms of conscription or national service.
• In other countries in Europe, there has traditionally been a type of “conscription-lite” in operation.
• Sweden, which joined Nato in March, had dropped conscription in 2010 but reintroduced it in 2018 as the country prepared to join Nato.
• Finland, the other Nordic country that has recently joined Nato, could hardly expand its conscription net any further.

Conscription extended in Ukraine

• The country already has conscription for 18-26 year-olds but only those above 27 were actually asked to serve in combat roles (although many volunteers under 27 did as well).
• To replace those lost in the war and to maintain the ability to rotate troops in and out of the front lines, Ukraine needs a larger pool of military manpower.
• But casting the manpower net wider is a toxic issue in Ukraine, and as ever, such conscription is not popular.
• Accordingly, government spokespersons moved quickly to quash any notions that conscription was on any agenda.

Rod Thornton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• Through Musicians On Call’s bedside and virtual programs, patients experience the physical, mental and emotional benefits of live music in the hospital setting.
• “For nearly four years, volunteer and visitor restrictions in local hospitals paused Musicians On Call’s in-person programs.
• “Our commitment to enhancing the hospital environment through the transformative power of music continues as the demand for our programs grows.
• As the nation’s leading provider of live music in hospitals, MOC volunteers have performed for more than one million individuals in healthcare facilities nationwide.

• "AmeriCorps Week celebrates the millions of AmeriCorps members, AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers and alumni who have devoted themselves in service to communities and causes in greatest need.," said Michael D. Smith, CEO, AmeriCorps.
• On Monday, March 11, AmeriCorps CEO Michael D. Smith launched AmeriCorps Week by delivering a keynote presentation at the National League of Cities “Celebrate Diversity” breakfast .
• In addition, Smith attended a virtual Intergenerational Alumni Networking event hosted by AmeriCorps, America's Service Commissions , and Service Year Alliance for an AmeriCorps alumni networking event celebrating AmeriCorps' 30th anniversary and AmeriCorps Week.
• The event featured a panel of AmeriCorps alumni and AmeriCorps senior volunteers who had served for three decades at AmeriCorps.