BACKGROUND The United States (US) Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Naval Research negotiate institutional rates for payments of overhead costs associated with administration and space usage, commonly known as indirect rates. Such payments account for a large proportion of spending by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Little has been published about differences in...

Purpose: The current shortage of highly skilled employees across the country continues to be a concern for our higher education (HE) institutions. Information technology (IT) is used in a variety of ways to expand the reach of education, from distance education, simulation technology, Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), and more. Additionally, public HE institutions face flat and decreasing ...

BACKGROUND Snakebite has recently been declared a global public health emergency. Empirical data showing the true burden of snakebite is lacking. Treatment with specific antivenoms is considered the only cure. However, several factors have led to an ongoing antivenom crisis. This study offers recommendations concerning the improvement of antivenom access and control, by providing an overview of...

There has been considerable public debate surrounding the efficiency of higher education in the United States. Using Data Envelopment Analysis, we look at the efficiency of a majority of the institutions of higher learning in the United States. Using two different approaches, we find some evidence that private institutions of higher learning are more efficient than public ones. In particular, m...

This paper describes the design, development and testing of a visualization tool targeted on publications, specifically on their keywords and authors — and the institutions they belong to. Every year, billions of dollars in research funding are allocated to universities and the private sector by various investors. Each investor is usually interested in funding a different area of research, and ...

INTRODUCTION Despite concerted efforts to scale up tuberculosis control with large amounts of international financing in the last 2 decades, tuberculosis continues to be a social issue affecting the world's most marginalized and disadvantaged communities. This includes prisoners, estimated at about 10 million globally, for whom tuberculosis is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity. The Glo...

The policy context for evaluation has been changing. There is growing recognition of the links between science, innovation, economic growth, health, etc. The funding for research has increased, but with some strings attached in the form of new models of governance of public research. Competition between universities and research laboratories has increased through research rankings, and there is...