The Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group: First Steps

Antibacterial resistance leadership group: open for business.

Funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG) is tasked with developing a clinical research agenda and conducting clinical studies to address the growing public health threat of antibacterial resistance. The ARLG has identified 4 high-priority areas of research: infections caused by gram-negative bacteria, infections ca...

The First Steps in Seeing

Group Leadership at Events

The Early Bird Special, Awake to the End and Hidden Timepiece patterns deal with several aspects of preparation for and running a short-time activities that involve several participants, from the point of view of the leader of the activity. The Bridge pattern deals with an important aspect of communication across different cultures. The target audience of these patterns are group leaders such a...

First Steps: Minding

Fostering collaborative efforts among ethicists, researchers and administrators (including Research Integrity Officers) would certainly seem to lay a direct path to enhancing research integrity at the academic research institution. Before collaborations among these groups of professionals may be explored, however, the cultural and cognitive gaps between these professions must be filled. And a p...

First Steps Toward Narrative

Marya Schechtman has argued that contemporary attempts to save Locke’s account of personal identity suffer the same faults that are to be found in Locke, among which is an inability to capture the role our unconscious states play. To avoid these problems, she advocates giving up the mainstream Psychological View and adopting a narrative account like her ‘SelfUnderstanding’ View that, she claims...