On 25 September 2015, the 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Agenda sets out 17 aspirational objectives, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), associated with 169 targets, which will serve governments, international organizations, the private sector and civil society to chart the path of human advancement over the next 15 year...

lines different employment options and discusses how a future doctor or interested student can begin their career. The book offers a full view of global health. It is well organized and formatted so that each chapter can stand alone as an educational tool for the classroom with outlined objectives, useful graphics, and study questions. This text is set apart from others of its kind by the exten...

Philanthropic and humanitarian organizations are increasingly turning to business models to achieve their social objectives. ‘‘Market-based approaches,’’ says the Acumen Fund, ‘‘have the potential to grow after charitable dollars run out, and they must be a part of the solution to the big problem of poverty.’’ Virginiabased Ashoka seeks to achieve social objectives by investing in individual en...

COBIT is a well-known framework for IT governance, and provides an extensive list of control objectives for IT managers. However, anecdotal evidence shows that many organizations that use COBIT do not implement the entire framework. Instead, they focus their efforts on only some of COBIT’s control objectives. We argue that this could be due to the bounded rationality of IT managers, which affec...

Dear colleagues, It is a singular honor and tremendous privilege to have been elected President-elect by the International Headache Society members. The opportunity to work alongside remarkably accomplished leaders in the field on the board is not only humbling, but comforting, knowing that the society is in such wise and capable hands. I have a long history of service to the International Head...

More and more, the accomplishment of important tasks and goals in organizations today is being achieved through the use of projects. The phrases we hear and read about daily at our work and in conversations with our colleagues, such as “management by projects” and “project management maturity,” reflect this increasing trend in our society. The explosively rapid adoption of such a powerful tool ...

This paper studies organizational change following a shift in an industry environment, in the context of how a focused factory adapts to a change in its manufacturing objectives. We use the organizational nature of production operations to suggest that the effectiveness of adaptation will depend on how well the manufacturing requirements of the new objectives match manufacturing capabilities at...

The underlying goal of disaster aftercare is to contribute to the restoration of control at both individual and societal level. A disaster HIA may contribute to a pro-active government response by providing information on the needs of the victims and, consequently, on the relief facilities required to support individual and collective post-disaster care activities. It may also serve to recogniz...

The Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School started on 3 July 1905 with the admission of 16 young persons for the full 5-year course. In 1910, 7 successful candidates qualified as medical practitioners and they were no more than 19 years of age. The medical course was based largely on the British system and consisted of 2 years of training in the basic sciences followed by ...

Protected areas' chief conservation objectives are to include species within their boundaries and protect them from negative external pressures. Many protected areas are not achieving these goals, perhaps in part due to land development inside and outside protected areas. We conducted spatial analyses to evaluate the ability of Canadian protected areas to mitigate the effects of nearby land dev...