background global health partnerships have grown rapidly in number and scope, yet there has been less emphasis on their evaluation. gavi, the vaccine alliance, is one such public-private partnership; in gavi-eligible countries partnerships are dynamic networks of immunization actors who work together to support all stages and aspects of gavi support. this paper describes a conceptual framework ...

Farclla Braan & Martel LLP S . Francisco Douglas R . Young (State Bar No . 073248), dyoung@fbm .com C. Brandon Wisoff (State Bar No . 121930), [email protected] James C . Mann (State Bar No . 221603) [email protected] Farella Braun + Martel LLP 235 Montgomery Street, 17th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 Telephone: (415) 954-4400 Facsimile: (415) 954-4480 Attorneys for Defendant SHARLENE ABRAMS UNITED S...

Stephen B. Judlowe, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, of New York, New York, argued for plaintiff-appellant. With him on the brief were Brian P. Murphy, Robert G. Gibbons, Esther H. Steinhauer, David Leichtman, and Timothy P. Heaton. William G. Gaede III, Cooley Godward LLP, of Palo Alto, California, argued for defendant-appellee. With him on the brief were Lori R.E. Ploeger and Michele E. Moreland. ...

The global health burden due to physical inactivity is enormous and growing. There is a need to consider new ways of generating evidence and to identify the role of government in promoting physical activity at the population level. In this paper, we summarize key findings from a large-scale cross-national collaboration to understand physical activity promotion in Brazil. We describe the main as...

BACKGROUND The need for better partnerships between Aboriginal organisations and mainstream agencies demands attention on process and relational elements of these partnerships, and improving partnership functioning through transformative or iterative evaluation procedures. This paper presents the findings of a literature review which examines the usefulness of existing partnership tools to the ...

Over just a six-year period from 2005-2011, five aid effectiveness initiatives were launched: the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), the International Health Partnership plus (2007), the Accra Agenda for Action (2008), the Busan Partnership for Effective Cooperation (2011), and the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) (2011). More recently, in 2015, the A...

This article examines the deferral value of an estate freeze. To be more specific, it models the value of the deferral of tax on future growth. From this model, we * Ling Chu is of Arthur Andersen LLP, Toronto; Glenn Feltham is of the University of Saskatchewan; and Robert Mathieu is of Wilfrid Laurier University. We would like to thank seminar participants at the University of Saskatchewan, th...