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Thoughts on scientific merit review.
A international meeting of senior officials from agencies funding science recently produced a statement of principles for scientific merit review. I spent a couple of decades managing or advising on scientific merit review, and the basic fact is that the proponents of new projects, whose professional careers depend on getting funded and who seek to identify a great project that they would
We need to act now to eradicate polio
Polio in the World Now Following its sixth meeting, held from 15-17 May 2012, the Independent Monitoring Board of the Polio Eradication Initiative wrote to the Director-General of the World Health Organization in advance of the World Health Assembly's deliberations regarding polio eradication. This letter highlights the crisis facing the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, reaffirms the
Food and health crisis in Sahel
The Sahel suffers from chronic malnutrition. With the poor harvest and increasing food insecurity, there are serious concerns of a full-scale disaster this year. There are an estimated 20 million people living in vulnerable areas and 15.6 million of these people are affected by food insecurity. Malnutrition makes people, particularly children under five, weaker and more prone to disease.
