Activities of the Health Resources Advisory Committee, Office of Defense Mobilization—Rusk Committee

Implementation of a Health Policy Advisory Committee as a Knowledge Translation Platform: The Nigeria Experience

Background In recent times, there has been a growing demand internationally for health policies to be based on reliable research evidence. Consequently, there is a need to strengthen institutions and mechanisms that can promote interactions among researchers, policy-makers and other stakeholders who can influence the uptake of research findings. The Health Policy Advisory Committee (HPAC) is on...

National tuberculosis advisory committee 2012 committee report.

The National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee (NTAC) was established in 1999 as a subcommittee of Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA). The terms of reference of NTAC are: • to provide strategic, expert advice to CDNA on a coordinated national and international approach to Tuberculosis (TB) control; and • to develop and review nationally agreed strategic and implementation plans for th...

Health Policy Advisory Committee on Technology

Advisory committee perspective.

There is no question that the world of children— and thus, that of Pediatrics—has changed in the 20 years since I graduated from medical school. Then, heading off to my internship and training in Pediatrics, medical (ie, scientific) issues still were paramount and costs were no object; we could admit a child for a fever of unknown origin and do a lengthy and thorough workup that provided an edu...

Provost's Advisory Committee on

At its June,1996 meeting, Senate approved a new Instructor and Course Evaluation form (see Exhibit 1) for university-wide use beginning in the 1996-97 academic year. The distinctive features of the new teaching evaluation form include numerical ratings of a broad range of teacher and course characteristics, written comments from students on instructor and course, assessment of student character...