LEADERSHIP TRANSCENDING BORDERS: BUILDING BRIDGES TO INTEGRATE TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE

Building bridges to integrate care

The widespread epidemiological shift from acute to chronic illnesses in the population has been accompanied by an increasing recognition of the need to simultaneously address the interacting physical, mental health and social needs of patients. A fragmented health care system built around single diseases and institutions cannot effectively address these complex needs. Health system reform is ne...

Global Health Service Partnership: building health professional leadership.

Shortages of nurses, doctors, and health professionals in resource-poor countries challenge the success of many health initiatives and health-system strengthening. In many of these countries, medical and nursing schools are few and severely short of faculty, limiting their capacity to scale-up and increase the number of skilled graduates and professionals to support the health system. In an eff...

Building Bridges to the Cortex

Innervation of the neocortex by the thalamus is dependent on the precise coordination of spatial and temporal guidance cues. In this issue of Cell, work by López-Bendito et al.(2006) reveals that tangentially migrating cells within the ventral telencephalon are essential for axonal navigation between the thalamus and the neocortex, a process apparently mediated by Neuregulin-1/ErbB4 short- and ...

Transcending Knowledge Management, Shaping Knowledge Governance

Teachers ‘professional development and conceptual change through the knowledge building environment

This study aimed to investigate conceptual change as a fruitful framework in teachers’ professional development through knowledge building environment. In cognitive approaches towards education, the quality of education is seen as a result of teachers’ actions and teachers’ action is seen as a result of their cognition. Thereby the goal of many teachers’ professional development programs is to ...