IUCN/WWF Help Wanted

Help Wanted: Science Manager

Feature Open access, freely available online " I didn't want to be just another MBA, " says Pascal Herzer, one of the fi rst recipients of a new graduate credential known as the professional science master's, or PSM. " Not many people have the ability to understand science and business, and [the PSM] program was designed for that very purpose. " PSMs are two-year American master's degrees fi na...

Help wanted: developing clinician leaders

Because healthcare faces challenges, such as ensuring quality and access and controlling cost, effective leadership is needed at every level of healthcare organizations. Yet, physicians are trained in clinical and scientific skills but not in leadership competencies. Furthermore, clinicians often feel ill-prepared to assume managerial and leadership roles. To close this gap, training in leaders...

Help wanted: studies of firearms injuries affecting children.

The continued high incidence of firearms deaths in the United States is a national disgrace. Despite declining rates over the past decade, firearm injuries remain the second leading cause of death for young Americans, trailing only motor vehicle crashes. The toll of gun violence extends well beyond those killed or injured. Children growing up in communities with high rates of gun violence grow ...

Diagnosis Wanted

No help wanted. Medical research exchange between Russia and the West during the Second World War.

EVERYONE with some familiarity with the history of World War II is aware that relationships between the Soviet Union and her Western Allies were tenuous at best. On major issues, such as Russian aid requests and the launching of a second front, major disputes arose. Not as well known is the fact that that same discord also marked the lesser wartime relations. A case in point were the efforts of...