Academic and Institutional Capacity: A Global Issue

Academic and institutional capacity: a global issue.

Building institutional capacity for diversity and inclusion in academic medicine.

Today, most agree that the health care system in the United States is in need of reform and that existing health disparities have huge implications for both that system and society as a whole. As a result, academic medicine has come to play a central role in addressing health disparities in a pluralistic society. Today, diversity is no longer a projection; it is a reality. Yet, most diversity e...

Big City Government : Global Challenges and Institutional Capacity

The paper examines institutional changes in the political and administrative structures governing the cities of Berlin, London and Paris. In doing so, it analyzes the extent to which convergent trends – driven by forces related to increased international competition and European integration – have shaped recent reforms of the governance systems of these European capital cities. In particular, t...

Child maltreatment: a global issue.

PURPOSE This article explains why children with speech and language impairments are at increased risk for having experienced abuse, neglect, and trauma and how maltreatment may vary across cultures. METHOD International literature on maltreatment is reviewed in order to provide frameworks for identifying what constitutes maltreatment across cultures; how cultural variations in discipline prac...

Trauma is a global issue

T rauma is a global issue. To give just one example, terrorism is a phenomenon that can only be understood and dealt with constructively by adopting a cross-national, cross-cultural perspective. I feel very strongly that the field of traumatic stress research should develop collaborations, and ultimately structures as well, that enable us to optimally respond to those tasks that are best addres...