“happy talk” so prevalent in international organizations, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations, as it leads to overestimation of response capabilities. Finally, Kimball warns that the lack of universal health insurance in the United States actually increases societal vulnerability to contagion. In sum, this is a very good book, well-suited to public health practitioners and m...

Marilyn A. DeLuca, PhD, RN, is a leader in global health, systems, and workforce. Principal of the consultant practice Global Health-Health Systems-Philanthropy, she works with multilateral organizations, policy makers, nongovernmental organizations, foundations, and donors. Lead editor of the book Transforming the Global Health Workforce (DeLuca and Soucat, 2013), she is a registered professio...

Ð International cooperation over the major rivers in South Asia has recently become much closer. Five agreements, signed in 1996 and 1997 against a background of greater regional economic and nongovernmental contact, could facilitate signi®cant progress to mitigate ̄ooding and drought, to provide a basis for greater regional cooperation, and to sustain irrigation expansion and industrial develop...

Members of the 67th World Health Assembly in 2014 were presented with a framework document to guide World Health Organization (WHO) engagement with non-state actors, a key part of WHO reform kick-started in 2011. According to this document, non-state actors include four distinct constituencies: i) nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), ii) private sector entities; iii) philanthropic foundations;...

The post-Cold War trend of convergence between military and nonmilitary tasks has accelerated over the past six years as western nations seek to defeat the insurgencies in Afghanistan and Iraq. One result of this convergence is an increased role for military forces in the conduct of humanitarian missions previously viewed as the sole preserve of nongovernmental organizations. This transition is...

BACKGROUND Number of Iranian articles published in ISI journals has increased significantly in recent years.Despite the quantitative progress, studies performed in Iran represent low collaboration in research; therefore,we decided to evaluate collaboration in Golestan University of Medical Sciences (GOUMS) research projects. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, all GOUMS research projects t...

Hemophilia associations should be recommended for educational programs for patients and caregivers. Hematologists and nongovernmental organizations can work together for lifelong educational programs. Finally, we recommend holding patient workshops twice a year as well as publishing simple books or brochures in each local language to improve the knowledge and therefore the quality of life of th...