WHO reacts to countries' immediate needs and initiates sustainable measures such as the development of laboratory networks and active surveillance systems. Photo credit: WHO The regional strategy for communicable disease surveillance, forecasting and response depend s on national, regional and global surveillance and containment plans for emerging and re-emerging disease threats. The main strat...

In mixed-initiative planning, a human planner collaborates with an automated system to build a plan of action. In existing approaches, the participants incrementally add constraints or modi cations to a single plan structure until an acceptable solution is found. We propose instead to treat the process as a form of data exploration, in which sets of plans and their relationships are the objects...

BACKGROUND/AIM To collect data from throughout Turkey in order to facilitate the organization of pediatric intensive care units (PICUs), and to develop short-term immediate action plans and draft long-term strategic plans. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 35 specialists including 17 pediatric critical care (PCC) specialists, 9 PCC fellows in training, and 9 pediatricians working in PICUs eval...

Urgent action is needed to address mental health issues globally. In Africa, where mental health disorders account for a huge burden of disease and disability, and where in general less than 1% of the already small health budgets are spent on these disorders, the need for action is acute and urgent. Members of the World Health Organization, including African countries, have adopted a Comprehens...

An increasing number of voices highlight the need for science itself to transform and engage in co-production knowledge action, order enable fundamental transformations needed advance towards sustainable futures. But how can global sustainability-oriented research networks action? The present article introduces a strategic tool called ‘network compass’ which highlights four generic, interrelate...

Strategic decision makers are working in dynamic environments that are increasingly difficult to address using rational analysis. Specifically, the onslaught of great amounts of information that is increasingly sophisticated, conflicting, or even distracting for making plans about the future has led to the promotion of a more creative and action-based model of decision making. While technology ...

In this article we describe a conditional planner called ETLplan which is an extension of the sequential planner TLplan ETLplan is a progressive planner and it uses strategic knowledge encoded in an epistemic temporal logic to reduce its search space It utilizes an ad vanced representation of knowledge and action with a semantics based on the notion of an epistemic situation Besides presenting ...

The achievement of strategies goals is one of the objectives of many organizations. One of the important influences on strategic objectives is the attitudes and perceptions of strategic planners groups. This paper focuses on conception of strategic directions in Export Development Bank of Iran (EDBI) among administrators (including board members, top and middle managers). This study was designe...