CANCUN—December 4, 2010—The International Institute for Sustainable Development and the Alternatives to Slash and Burn Partnership at the World Agroforestry Centre (ASB-ICRAF) have launched the second phase of their project—Building REDD Capacity for Developing Country Negotiators and Land Managers—to help developing countries get the most from complex negotiations at the climate change talks.
REDD-plus is about reducing [...]
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Naomi Rennard The international health field values volunteerism and international service is often a global health professional’s first field experience. At BU’s orientation, Department Chair Jon Simon charged the International Health concentrators to think about serving with Peace Corps (PC). Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) have the opportunity to immerse themselves in a new culture and [...] Preventing chronic diseases: a vital investment, is a Book wrote by WHO. You can see the book below. I found it very useful for understanding the current challenges in global health. Key messages Table of contents Key messages In academia, usually we love to add some new pages to the human knowledge; we are looking for increasing the current knowledge most of the time. Therefore, usually we forget that we already have a lot of existing knowledge and data and we rarely take advantage of using these data. Our goal is to make more [...] One of my favorite TV productions is The Commanding Heights by PBS. In this show you can grasp a concentration of change from economic, social and political viewpoints in the world during 20th century. The Commanding Heights Storyline provides a complete netcast of the six-hour television program as originally broadcast — in three two-hour episodes. The episodes [...] The Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) represents the 40 Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH)-accredited schools of public health (SPH) in North America. The ASPH Public Health Policy Fellow will be placed in either a congressional or committee office, to be determined, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Selected fellows are required to relocate [...] Last year when I took Policy Analysis Course with Professor Foster, I never thought that one day I will meet the architecture of Policymaker Software. This tool is a Window-based software program for analyzing the political dimensions of public policy. This tool provides a computer-assisted guide for strategic thinking about policy reform. The software leads the [...] KaiserEDU.org invites undergraduate and graduate-level students in all disciplines to submit an original essay for the website’s annual competition. Students are asked to submit entries by March 17, 2008 in response to the following topic: The date is November 24th, 2008. You have just started a job as an analyst working on the President-elect’s health care transition [...] Road Traffic Injuries are responsible for a global health burden similar to malaria and tuberculosis. Tuberculosis and Malaria are in the international global agenda and receive enough attention in media and political community, but Road Traffic Injuries are ignored by most of health policy makers and it doesn’t receive enough attention even from academia. During my study [...] |
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