The Global Affairs Institute (GAI) of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs was created in 1993 to integrate and focus the School’s research, training, and service activities in areas of international studies. GAI builds upon the Maxwell School tradition of producing a community of citizens, broadly schooled and skilled, whose signature is civility and civic-mindedness on a globa...

Peter Singer, in his essay "Utilitarianism and Vegetarianism" (Philosoohv and Public Affairs, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 325-37),1 has gone some distance toward clarifying his view of the utilitarian case for the ob­ ligation to be vegetarian. The fact that this clearer statement of his position was prompted, at least in part, by an essay of mine ("Utilitarianism, Vegetarianism, and Animal Rights," Phi...

648. Identical Strain of Mycobacterium conceptionense Isolated from Patients at 2 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers within the Same Metropolitan Area over a 4 Year Period Gina Oda, MS; Mark Winters, MS; Susan M. Pacheco, MD; Monica Sikka, MD; Susan Bleasdale, MD; Bruce Dunn, MD; Benjamin Winters, BS; Etta McDuffee, RN; Amelia Bumsted, RN and Mark Holodniy, MD, FIDSA, FSHEA; Public Health Surveil...

O ur complex legislative process affects all healthcare organizations. "After the rubric of patient care, nothing defines us more than legislation," says James Peters of Lifespan, an integrated healthcare deliver)' network based in Providence, RI. He adds, "Laws determine our revenues, set our standards, specify our working conditions, and, in excruciating detail, tell us how to behave. Healthc...

Organizing for Resistance: How Group Structure Impacts the Character of Violence Lindsay Heger a , Danielle Jung b & Wendy H. Wong c a Josef Korbel School of International Studies , University of Denver, Denver; and One Earth Future Foundation , Broomfield , Colorado , USA b Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs , Princeton University , Princeton , New Jersey , USA c Departm...

648. Identical Strain of Mycobacterium conceptionense Isolated from Patients at 2 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers within the Same Metropolitan Area over a 4 Year Period Gina Oda, MS; Mark Winters, MS; Susan M. Pacheco, MD; Monica Sikka, MD; Susan Bleasdale, MD; Bruce Dunn, MD; Benjamin Winters, BS; Etta McDuffee, RN; Amelia Bumsted, RN and Mark Holodniy, MD, FIDSA, FSHEA; Public Health Surveil...

C. Fred Bergsten is the director of the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics. He was assistant secretary for international affairs of the US Treasury (1977–81) and assistant for international economic affairs at the National Security Council (1969–71). He was chairman of APEC’s Eminent Persons Group, which developed the initial blueprint for the organization’s trade policy st...

M any veterans and their families struggle with behavioral health problems, yet they often face barriers to receiving adequate treatment. Notably, while many veterans are eligible to receive care at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities, family members are not and must seek care elsewhere. In seeking care in the community, veteran family members may face obstacles in ensuring that the ...

there are many reasons for the health inequities that we see around the world today. public policy and the way society organises its affairs affects the economic, social and physical factors that influence the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age - the social determinants of health. tackling health inequities is a political issue that requires leadership, political cour...