I recently kicked off a biotech venture company in Japan. This is something unusual to see here, as there are few university-based startup companies in this country. According to one statistic, the number of biotech venture companies in Japan is now around 60, very many fewer than in the US which has around 1,700. Only ten new companies started last year and most of them were backed by establis...

Irrespective of national context and the precise nature of local services, most developed nations are currently exploring different ways of developing more integrated health and social care. Responding to demographic changes, advances in medicine and technology, and rising public expectations, health and social care systems are increasingly recognising that greater partnership working is one of...

The World Health Organization has challenged governments to adopt the principle of “health in all policies” to tackle the social determinants of health and health inequalities.However, policy making is complex, especially across multiple government departments, which makes implementing such an approach challenging. The Welsh government is consulting on whether and how to introduce this principl...

Abstract Despite apparent political concern and action—often fuelled by high-profile cases campaigns—legislative institutional responses to image-based sexual abuse in the UK have been ad hoc, piecemeal inconsistent. In practice, victim-survivors are being consistently failed: law, police criminal justice system, traditional social media, website operators, their employers, universities schools...