The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR, a sponsor of Next Wave Canada) has launched a Science Policy Initiative, which, in turn, has spawned
several academic policy - training programs.
Not exact matches
He has published
several articles on monetary
policy issues in refereed
academic journals.
She has published articles in
several academic journals, including the Journal of Labor Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Public
Policy, Social Science and Medicine, and the Review of Income and Wealth.
In 1996, in response to these concerns, Varmus, then director of NIH, impaneled a group of experienced clinical investigators and
academic health center administrators to make recommendations that might guide the NIH toward
policy changes to alleviate the concerns in the clinical research community.14
Several of the panel's recommendations have been implemented, including increased support of the General Clinical Research Center budget, expanded support of training in clinical research, and the establishment of NIH - sponsored educational debt relief programs for clinical investigators.15 - 18 The panel also recommended restructuring of NIH peer review groups so that patient - oriented grant applications would be evaluated by study sections in which at least half the grant applications involve patient - oriented research.
She has over 90
academic publications and has held
several leadership and advisory positions, including Chair of the Gordon Conference on Science and Technology
Policy, Secretary and Council Member of the Society for Risk Analysis, the European Commission Expert Group for Science in Society and the EU's «SYNTH - ETHICS» project, the FDA Blood Products Advisory Committee, and the UN WHO - FAO Expert Group for Agrifood Nanotechnology.
There are
several policies (proposed, underway, or in place) by the Obama administration that broaden the focus on reading and
academic development, increasing attention to knowledge building and language growth, from early childhood through adolescence — and those expansive
policies may be especially beneficial for EL learners.
His work has been widely cited in top
academic journals in the fields of economics, education and public
policy, and he has served on
several technical advisory panels related to school and teacher evaluations for school districts, state education agencies and non-profit organizations.
She serves on
several boards including Editorial Projects in Education, which publishes Education Week; Uncommon Schools, a charter school management organization that oversees nearly 50 schools in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts; and the United Nations International School where she chairs the
Academic Policy Committee.
Several studies of LSC reform conclude that site - based management under parent - majority LSCs successfully raised
academic achievement.3 Further study showed that schools where LSCs were allowed to continue as the main
policy - making body for the school after mayoral control was established in 1995 improved substantially more than schools where the district intervened and usurped LSC control.4