Are aid agencies improving?

Should refugees be given cigarettes by aid agencies?

Are the Antitrust Agencies Overregulating Physician Networks?

Improving the long-term sustainability of health aid: are Global Health Partnerships leading the way?

Over the last decade development assistance for health has more than doubled. This increase provides an unprecedented opportunity to scale up health services, and in doing so, achieve the health Millennium Development Goals. However, sustaining scaling up will in turn require sustainable donor support until domestic health financing can substitute for it. The provision of long-term predictable ...

Decisions by regulatory agencies: are they evidence-based?

Contradictory statements about the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs from the European Medicines Agency and the United States Food and Drug Administration have raised questions about whether regulatory decisions are evidence-based. For the selective COX-2 inhibitors, there are clear contraindications and warnings in Europe, but only a vaguely worded Black Box warning in the United States. A...

Knowledge-Based Issues for Aid Agencies in Crisis Scenarios: Evolving from Impediments to Trust

As part of its expanding role, particularly as an agent of peace building, the United Nations (UN) actively participates in the implementation of measures to prevent and manage crisis/disaster situations. The purpose of such an approach is to empower the victims, protect the environment, rebuild communities, and create employment. However, real world crisis management situations are complex giv...