Meeting Global Challenges

Meeting global challenges.

EVERY MAJOR CHALLENGE OF MODERN LIFE, SUCH AS ENSURING ENERGY, HEALTH, WATER, OR FOOD security in a sustainable world with a predicted nine billion inhabitants, has complex science and technology (S&T) components and is global in character, even though its expression often involves national idiosyncrasies. Searching for solutions requires that the scientifi c community operate in fundamentally ...

Data Management for Meeting Global Health Challenges

Organizations and health agencies working on meeting global health challenges are becoming increasingly data driven. Governments and donors are demanding rigorous and up-todate assessment of patient needs and health service delivery. These organizations work in some of the most difficult data environments dealing with limited infrastructure and human resources, inconsistent data quality and ava...

Meeting global health challenges through operational research and management science.

This paper considers how operational research and management science can improve the design of health systems and the delivery of health care, particularly in low-resource settings. It identifies some gaps in the way operational research is typically used in global health and proposes steps to bridge them. It then outlines some analytical tools of operational research and management science and...

The roles of veterinarians in meeting the challenges of health and welfare of livestock and global food security

Four Challenges That Global Health Networks Face

Global health networks, webs of individuals and organizations with a shared concern for a particular condition, have proliferated over the past quarter century. They differ in their effectiveness, a factor that may help explain why resource allocations vary across health conditions and do not correspond closely with disease burden. Drawing on findings from recently concluded studies of eight gl...