Getting Our Priorities Right

Getting the priorities right for stroke care.

Getting Infrastructure Priorities Right in Post-Conflict Reconstruction

In this paper, an attempt is made to identify some key challenges for infrastructure sectors in post-conflict reconstruction. In spite of the Hague and Geneva Conventions, infrastructure can be damaged in conflicts, and reconstructing infrastructure is often essential to sustain recovery. Conflicts erode governance institutions, weaken public expenditure management systems, and increase transac...

Poverty and Human Development in India: Getting Priorities Right

In the 1930s, when the British ruled the country, Jawaharlal Nehru described India's situation as follows: "A servile state, with its splendid strength caged up, hardly daring to breathe freely, governed by strangers from afar; her people poor beyond compare; shortlived and incapable of resisting disease and epidemic; illiteracy rampant; vast areas devoid of all sanitary or medical provision; u...

Visualizing Data, Visualizing Models: Getting Priorities Right When Analyzing Data

We discuss methods of visualizing data and statistical models. The key innovation underlying these methods is that specialized graphs illustrate underlying patterns in data and they illustrate the properties of the statistical model that are used to analyze the data. These visualization techniques provide ways of understanding the underlying relation between variables, can illustrate how the st...

Influenza: getting our attention.

Influenza has become an increasingly frequent topic in the news and medical literature. Although the 1918 influenza pandemic killed more people than died during the first World War, for much of the 20th century, the disease was considered of interest primarily during the winter months, as emergency departments and hospitals filled with sick patients. Less than a decade ago, few pediatricians in...