Leading educators who have made risky career commitments to international engineering education have often experienced challenges beyond the boundaries of home countries that made them critical analysts of their work and identities. This panel introduces the unique research process that helped sixteen educators make visible how their goals and motivations extend far beyond the commonly invoked ...

in this comment, i build on shiffman’s call for the global health community to more deeply investigate structural and productive power. i highlight two challenges we must grapple with as social scientists carrying out the types of investigation that shiffman proposes: the politics of  challenging the powerful; and the need to investigate types of expertise that have traditionally been thought o...

Background: A strong and responsive health workforce (HWF) is essential for sustainable health care systems. Planning the appropriate HWF for provision of high-quality care and moving towards universal health coverage is a key issue for health policy, in which education and labour market dynamics should be taken into consideration. The macro-level trends and challenges significantly influence ...

PURPOSE Cultural sensitivity may be especially important in the care of children, and national pediatric associations have issued policy statements promoting cultural competence in medical education. The authors conducted a national survey to investigate the current state of cultural competence teaching and learning within U.S. pediatric clerkships. METHOD The authors surveyed 125 U.S. pediat...

the south pacific countries of vanuatu, samoa, and papua new guinea have ascended rapidly up the development spectrum in recent years, refining an independent and post-colonial economic and political identity that enhances their recognition on the world stage. all three countries have overcome economic, political and public health challenges in order to stake their claim to sovereignty. in this...

the asia-pacific region generates over half of global economic activity (54.2%) and about 43.7% of global trade, and is the most dynamic region in the global economy. at the core of this is an increasingly dynamic, vibrant and entrepreneurial small-medium sized enterprise sector. advances in information and communications technology, market liberalisation and moves towards closer regional econo...