The Kenyan Village Medical Education Program is a student-led global health initiative that seeks to improve health outcomes in rural Kenya through culturally appropriate health education. The month-long program, which is organised by the Melbourne University Health Initiative (Australia), is conducted each January in southern rural Kenya. Significance for public healthThe Kenyan Village Medica...

The future of human wellbeing and security depends on our ability to deal with the multiple effects of globalisation and on adoption of a new paradigm and philosophy for living and for health that emphasises people's wellbeing and social justice. Such was the topic of the inaugural Raffles Dialogue on Human Wellbeing and Security held in Singapore on Feb 2-3, 2015. Participants agreed that, to ...

With the world increasingly becoming a global village, transnational and transcontinental migration has become the order of the day. It is expected that migrants will take with them some diseases (including parasites) which are normally endemic in their countries of origin, to their host countries. Similarly, environmental changes that result from development of water resources, global warming,...

Data warehousing has come a long way from its inception. In the present scenario, data warehousing is evolving into rich system which is capable of furnishing key performance metrics to top-level management, capability of analytical strength to middle-level management and corrective data back to bottom-level based on information derived from the analytical system. The data warehouse market is c...

In the current era of worldwide market interdependencies, the global financial village has become increasingly vulnerable to systemic collapse. The global financial crisis has highlighted the necessity of understanding and quantifying the interdependencies among the world’s economies; developing new, effective approaches for risk evaluation; and providing mitigating solutions. We present a meth...

The paper highlights the current status of the Garment Industry and the threat it is facing in the emerging nonquota era and proposes an effective e-transformation strategy for the industry to gain competitive advantage in the global market. The E-transformation roadmap developed by the University of Western Sydney, Australia, is applied to the Garment Industry to deal with it’s requirement to ...