Research/Teaching Partnerships

Medicine partnerships.

Partial medication compliance, where patients do not take enough of their prescribed medicine to achieve adequate outcomes, is common. Research using electronic monitoring to assess compliance has shown that people take approximately 75% of doses as prescribed, irrespective of the condition being treated or its severity. Erratic compliance often leads to discontinuation of therapy, as treatment...

Global health public-private partnerships: IAVI, partnerships and capacity building.

New developments in biotechnology and the need to overcome the lack of incentive for investment in vaccines for diseases affecting Africa have led to the promotion of product development public-private partnerships (PPP). Our work at the ESRC INNOGEN Research Centre assesses the way in which these collaborative mechanisms approach their mission of getting science to work for the poor and what t...

Transformation through partnerships.

C reating social justice involves changing inequitable systems, policies, cultures, and values, and fundamentally redefining how we understand community, health, science, knowledge, and evidence. This demands that we challenge and change the assumptions, systems, policies, culture, and values of the everyday organizations in which we work as well as the major institutions that shape and govern ...

Accountability in Voluntary Partnerships:

Reputation and Partnerships

This paper studies …rms’decisions to form partnerships to develop new projects and the reputation implications of such decisions. Speci…cally, we analyze how …rms’qualities, initial reputations and participation levels a¤ect the evolution of …rms’reputations and incentives to form partnerships. We consider both the case where participation levels are exogenous and that where they are endogenous...