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Research quality framework: assessing the quality and impact of research in Australia - the preferred model
No full textThis paper is part of the development of the the federal government\u27s new Research Quality Framework (RQF) and outlines possible approaches to assessing the quality and impact of original research in Australia. The features of assessment described in the paper reflect a desire, according to the government, to identify high quality and high impact research in an international context, while also recognising the research priorities for Australia in the future.
The Expert Advisory Group for the RQF, chaired by Professor Sir Gareth Roberts, developed this paper after consultation with the higher education sector. The model is built on the responses to the RQF Issues and Advanced Approaches Papers and the outcomes of the National Stakeholder Forum held in June 2005.
Released 9 September 200
Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the WHO : conclusions and recommendations of seventh biannual meeting (March 2015)
No full textThe Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the World Health Organization held its seventh meeting in Geneva, Switzerland from 5 to 7 March 2015. This article provides a summary of the discussions, conclusions and meeting recommendations. Meeting sessions included: an update on the Greater Mekong Subregion elimination strategy; an update on the RTS,S vaccine; G6PD testing to support the safe use of anti-relapse therapy for Plasmodium vivax; update from the Vector Control Advisory Group; newly proposed evidence reviews or consultations on malaria terminology, malaria in pregnancy, and the feasibility of eradication; as well as updates from the World Health Organization Global Malaria Programme regarding their strategy update and policy setting processes. Policy statements, position statements, and guidelines that arise from the Malaria Policy Advisory Committee meeting conclusions and recommendations will be formally issued and disseminated to World Health Organization Member States by the World Health Organization Global Malaria Programme
Inaugural meeting of the malaria policy advisory committee to the WHO : conclusions and recommendations
No full textThe Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the World Health Organization met for the first time from 31 January to 2 February 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland. This article provides a summary of the discussions, conclusions and recommendations from that meeting, as part of the newly launched Malaria Journal thematic series 'WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Committee: Reports and Recommendations'.Summaries are provided, referencing the relevant background documents, for the meeting sessions on global malaria control, drug resistance and containment, rapid diagnostic test procurement criteria, larviciding, classification of countries for elimination, estimating malaria cases and deaths, and seasonal malaria chemoprevention. Policy statements, position statements, and guidelines that will arise from the MPAC meeting conclusions and recommendations will be formally issued and disseminated to World Health Organization member states by the World Health Organization Global Malaria Programm
Family Migration: Understanding the Drivers, Impacts and Support Needs of Migrant Families
No full textThis report by the independent Expert Advisory Group on Migration and Population analyses the rules around family migration in Scotland and the UK and recommends future action
Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the WHO : conclusions and recommendations of March 2013 meeting
No full textThe Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the World Health Organization met in Geneva, Switzerland from 13 to 15 March, 2013. This article provides a summary of the discussions, conclusions and recommendations from that meeting.Meeting sessions included: a review of the efficacy of artemisinin-based combination therapy in Guyana and Suriname; the outcomes from a consultation on non-malaria febrile illness; the outcomes from the second meeting of the Evidence Review Group on malaria burden estimation; an update on the review of the WHO Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria; an update regarding progress on the constitution of the vector control Technical Expert Group; updates on the RTS, S/AS01 vaccine and the malaria vaccine technology roadmap; financing and resource allocation for malaria control; malaria surveillance and the need for a surveillance, monitoring and evaluation Technical Expert Group; criteria and classification related to malaria elimination; the next meeting of the Evidence Review Group on Intermittent Preventive Treatment in pregnancy; an update on the soon-to-be launched Elimination Scenario Planning Tool; and an update on the process for the Global Technical Strategy for Malaria Control and Elimination (2016-2025).Policy statements, position statements, and guidelines that arise from the MPAC meeting conclusions and recommendations will be formally issued and disseminated to World Health Organization Member States by the World Health Organization Global Malaria Programme
Expert Advisory Panel on Virus Diseases and Consultative Group on Oral Poliomyelitis Vaccine (Sabin Strains) -- 1974 -- OPV WHO -- letter, 1974-03-13
No full textLetter from Cockburn, W. Chas to Members of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Virus Diseases dated 1974-03-13.Sabin Collection Fair Use Policy</a
Creating the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts (STAGE) to advance maternal, newborn, child, adolescent health and nutrition: a new approach
No full text- The Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts (STAGE) for Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition (MNCAHN) was established by the Director-General of WHO in 2020.
- STAGE is an independent advisory group with 31 members. The key role is to provide a critical review of initiatives and programmes at WHO related to MNCHAN, to monitor progress, connect agendas and groups and is a space to facilitate synergies across WHO departments, as well as with other United Nations agencies.
- STAGE was created in response to the global review to improve child survival and health that highlighted the need for a global expert group to appraise evidence, provide advice on interventions and implementation strategies and improve alignment between global and national stakeholders.
- STAGE’s recommendations have highlighted the critical importance of sustaining essential services, including MNCAHN, the need to improve the translation of evidence-based guidelines into successful programmes at the country level and the need for evidence-based packages of interventions for maternal and child health along the life course.
- STAGE will continue to advise on priority areas to improve MNCAHN outcomes to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. STAGE’s work will continue to addresses universal health coverage, which been interrupted by the pandemic, and with a clear emphasis on cross-sectoral approaches.
- In the next 2 years, STAGE will narrow its agenda to specific topics where WHO and the global MNCHAN community seek guidance. To support this transition, and ensure its future agenda is responsive to expressed needs, STAGE will global inputs and oversee a prioritisation process
The TUSNELDA annotation standard : an XML encoding standard for multilingual corpora supporting various aspects of linguistic research
No full textThis paper proposes a corpus encoding standard that meets the needs of linguistic research using a variety of linguistic data structures. The standard was developed in SFB 441, a research project at the University of Tuebingen. The principal concern of SFB 441 are the empirical data structures which feed into linguistic theory building. SFB 441 consists of several projects, most of which are building corpora to empirically investigate various linguistic phenomena in various languages (e.g. modal verbs in German, forms of address and politeness in Russian). These corpora will form the components of the "Tuebingen collection of reusable, empirical, linguistic data structures (TUSNELDA)". The TUSNELDA annotation standard aims at providing a uniform encoding scheme for all subcorpora and texts of TUSNELDA such that they can be processed with uniform standardized tools. To guarantee maximal reusability we use XML for encoding. Previous SGML standards for text encoding were provided by the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and the Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards (Corpus Encoding Standard, CES). The TUSNELDA standard is based on TEI and XCES (XML version of CES) but takes into account the specific needs of the SFB projects, i.e. the peculiarities of the examined languages and linguistic phenomena
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