Taking stock on building adaptability research and practice

Taking Stock of the Drosophila Research Ecosystem

With a century-old history of fundamental discoveries, the fruit fly has long been a favored experimental organism for a wide range of scientific inquiries. But Drosophila is not a "legacy" model organism; technical and intellectual innovations continue to revitalize fly research and drive advances in our understanding of conserved mechanisms of animal biology. Here, we provide an overview of t...

Taking action on violence through research, policy, and practice

Background Violence is a critical public health problem associated with compromised health and social suffering that are preventable. The Centre for Global Health and Health Equity organized a forum in 2014 to identify: (1) priority issues related to violence affecting different population groups in Canada, and (2) strategies to take action on priority issues to reduce violence-related health i...

Gender and HIV/AIDS: Taking stock of research and programmes

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Safety climate research: taking stock and looking forward.

Assistant Professor of Health Care Management and Policy, Department of Healthcare Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Mongan Institute of Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 Assistant Professor of Management and Organization Studies, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Manageme...

Taking Stock