Academic partnerships 2015

Capacity building in obstetrics and gynaecology through academic partnerships to improve global women's health beyond 2015.

Significant progress has been made since Allen Rosenfield termed maternal mortality a neglected tragedy and asked ‘where is the M in MCH?’ Recent data from the World Health Organization demonstrates significant declines in maternal mortality ratios, with a 49% reduction in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), from 990 in 1990 to 510 per 100 000 live births in 2013. Still, Millennium Development Goal (MDG)...

New Models for Academic and Industry Partnerships

Many universities are seeking new ways to interact with industry on a variety of levels and for a variety of reasons. Public universities in particular face significant challenges in the 21 century, with the decline of state funding, the rapid pace of change in the world around them, and increasing demands from different stakeholders. To meet these challenges and opportunities, many universitie...

Community/practice/academic partnerships in public health.

The forging of links between academia and the field of practice is a much-discussed topic. The 1988 Institute of Medicine Report on the Future of Public Health noted that public health academic institutions had become “isolated from the field of public health practice.”1 The Committee opined that neither academia nor practice can work at the desired level of excellence without the perspective a...

South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 11 | 2015

Many frameworks for the writing of urban history in South Asia have interpreted the city as aspace of socio-political organisation, rather than an object of thought itself. By contrast, thisarticle examines how a mythologised version of Lucknow’s illustrious pre-colonial history,particularly its supposed cultural refinement (tehzib), was evoked in the colonial-era city.Examining...

Incorporating community-academic partnerships into graduate medical education.