Global Flexibility, synecdoche of progress

Measuring Global Educational Progress

Flexibility and user-friendliness of Grid portals: the PROGRESS approach

1. Introduction The PROGRESS project [1] started in the end of 2001 as a grant from the Polish Committee of Scientific Research co-financed by Sun Microsystems. It aimed to design and implement an access environment to computational services performed by a cluster of Sun servers [2]. The grant, which finished in 2004 with the deployment of the PROGRESS HPC Portal [3], produced a set of grid-por...

Progress in Global Surgery; Comment on “Global Surgery – Informing National Strategies for Scaling Up Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa”

Impressive progress has been made in global surgery in the past 10 years, and now serious and evidence-based national strategies are being developed for scaling-up surgical services in sub-Saharan Africa. Key to achieving this goal requires developing a realistic country-based estimate of burden of surgical disease, developing an accurate estimate of existing need, deve...

Measuring progress in global health

It is a pleasure to write the editorial for this issue of Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene. This special issue accompanies the now biennial, 3-day meeting of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH), which will take place at Oxford Town Hall (St Aldate’s, Oxford, OX1 1BX) from 25–27 September 2014. On assuming office, one of the first presidenti...

Progress of DOTS in global tuberculosis control.