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Background In recent times, there has been a growing demand internationally for health policies to be based on reliable research evidence. Consequently, there is a need to strengthen institutions and mechanisms that can promote interactions among researchers, policy-makers and other stakeholders who can influence the uptake of research findings. The Health Policy Advisory Committee (HPAC) is on...

John Aloizos is a part-time GP in Brisbane and is currently Chairman of the Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council, and a member of the Australian Health Information Council, where he Chairs the Electronic Decision Support Steering Committee. He is a former member of the General Practice Computing Group Management Committee and the General Practice Partnership Advisory Council. He was the i...

1 Professor of Engineering and Biophysics, University of California, Los Angeles; member, Advisory Committee on Artificial Limbs, National Research Council; chairman, Upper-Extremity Technical Committee, ACAL, NRC. 2 Strong, F. S., Jr., The Artificial Limb Program: Five Years of Progress. Advisory Committee on Artificial Limbs, NRC, Washington, November 1951. 3 Bronk, D. W., President, National...

Since 2000, HIV prevention in NSW has been overseen by a Health Promotion Sub-Committee of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on HIV and Sexually Transmissible Infections. The Sub-Committee meets quarterly, and its ongoing work demonstrates how reflexive interactions between researchers, community-based and public-sector educators and policy makers can enable the development and implementation ...

Faced with an epidemic of drug abuse and overdose deaths involving prescription opioid pain relievers, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to require opioid makers to provide training for physicians and patient-education materials on the appropriate prescribing and use of extendedrelease and long-acting versions of these drugs. But since July, FDA officials have been scrambling to revi...