REPORT FROM THE PRESIDENT : Budgets

BELT-TIGHTENING BLUES President Nixon’s enactment of the 90-day “wage and price freeze” in 1971 appears to have met with mixed reaction from business

President Nixon’s enactment of the 90-day “wage and price freeze” in 1971 appears to have met with mixed reaction from business circles. This would not seem surprising in view of the fact that the President’s announcement climaxed a year of relatively ineffective inflationary curbs, declining corporate profits, and business uncertainties of massive proportions. Throughout most of 1970 and the i...

Message from the IOMP President, Dr. Kin Yin Cheung and the Chairman of the IOMP Education and Training Committee, Prof. John Damilakis on November 7, 2013: “International Day of Medical Physics”

The Relationship Between Parole and Recidivism in the Criminal Justice System

From 1990 to 1999 the criminal justice system experienced a fifty percent increase in the inmate population, which included recidivated parolees. Critics claimed the parole process was not working and lobbied legislature to take action. The system responded by decreasing parole agency budgets, increasing prison sentences, and reducing rehabilitation services for paroled inmates. Research pertai...

Biodefense funding: changes from president's budget to congressional appropriations.

S ince 2004, the Center for Biosecurity has tracked and published a series of articles detailing funding for civilian biodefense programs throughout the federal government. Each year, when the President publishes a budget for the federal agencies, the biodefense funding analysis is updated with new appropriations amounts and new programs. Estimated funding for the previous fiscal year is replac...

Letter from Guinea Bissau: follow up to the article by Binder et al. and accompanying articles.

our NPHI creation effort started in earnest. We are particularly grateful to the staff of FIOCRUZ, the NPHI in Brazil, and part of a sub-network of Portuguese-speaking NPHIs, for their assistance. the support of the Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical of Portugal, the Centro de Medicina Tropical has been created and inaugurated by the President of Guinea Bissau and the Prime Minister of Po...