global public consultation on health in Post-2015 development agenda

For comments: draft report - health in the post-2015 development agenda

DRAFT REPORT - HEALTH IN THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA

Open for public comment from 1 to 19 February 2013

Website: http://bit.ly/X2qhcY

Draft of report PDF: http://bit.ly/WEA2S7

Between October 2012 and January 2013, a global consultation has taken place on the role of health in post-2015 development agenda, both on line and through face to face consultations. This consultation on health is co-convened by WHO and UNICEF, in collaboration with the Government of Botswana and the Government of Sweden.

The first draft of the report of the consultation on health in the post-2015 development agenda is now open for public comment. It is a technical report that summarizes the main themes and messages that have emerged thus far.

The final report will include an annex which will consist of digests of the papers  and other inputs received. In the meantime, digests of papers can be viewed online. A full description of the consultation process is provided in Chapter 2 of the report.

A revised version of this report will be considered at the High Level Dialogue on health in the post-2015 agenda, and a final report will be presented to the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda in March 2013. Beyond this, the report will also serve as an input into the discussions on post-2015 development agenda and the sustainable development goals that will take place during 2013 and 2014.

How to comment:

Click on the pdf filehttp://bit.ly/WEA2S7, or enter the website http://bit.ly/X2qhcY to see the draft report on health in the post-2015 development agenda.

Comments can be posted below or sent by email to post2015health@who.int with the subject line "Comments on draft health report".
Please tell us if you do not want your comments made public.

Disclaimer: This Report is based on and reflects an extensive global public consultation, held from September 2012 to January 2013.  The content and recommendations contained in this report do not necessarily reflect the views, policies or positions of UNICEF, WHO, the United Nations, the Government of Sweden or the Government of Botswana.

Deborah Lupton - Social media for academia: some things I have learnt

This is a reblog (i.e. copied from) This Sociological Life - A blog by sociologist Deborah Lupton

February 4, 2013

Social media for academia: some things I have learnt

2012 was the year of my big experiment: trying out various forms of social media for academic purposes. I was in many ways a social media novice when I began, as I had only really dabbled in Facebook, Academia.edu and LinkedIn before my period of experimentation began. But around the middle of last year I made the decision to jump in with both feet and try as many social media platforms as I could, all in the name of sociological experimentation as well as personal interest in what I could achieve using these tools.

Here are some of the things I have learnt thus far:

• Twitter is an invaluable tool for academics. Through using Twitter I have made wonderful connections with a range of people I never would have encountered otherwise across a diversity of countries. I have had fascinating conversations in real time not only with other sociologists but also bioethicists, philosophers, nutritionists, anthropologists, fat activists, medical practitioners, graduate students, health care administrators, people working in digital technology development for medicine and  health  … the list goes on. Using Twitter I have been able to share not only links to my own research and blog posts, but also to many other news items, blog posts and academic articles and have benefited enormously from other people’s sharing of such information.
• Starting my own blog has also been a great decision. My posts have allowed me to share some thoughts quickly and easily with anyone who cares to read them, and to engage in a conversation with those who have taken the trouble to comment. Allowing my research and ideas to reach a much wider readership has been a major benefit of blogging.
• I discovered Pinterest, and have used it extensively to gather material for research purposes. Several of my recent publications have now included hyperlinks to one or more of my Pinterest boards to allow readers to view the materials to which I refer. I recently presented at an academic conference using two of my Pinterest boards simply by calling up the links on the laptop provided on the podium and showing relevant images as I talked.
• I have found that uploading my PowerPoint presentations to SlideShare works well to give others ready access to them. I now try to upload the slides to SlideShare before my presentation, so that when I deliver it I can include in my final slide the links not only to my blog and Twitter account, but also to the SlideShare of the talk I had just presented. Audience members can then access the slides immediately if they so desire. I then tweet the link so anyone else who might be interested can take a look.
• Curating tools like Delicious, Scoop.it or Bundlr are essential for collecting posts and news items from the web under topics that you have specified. Here again these collections can be used in academic publications as useful links to further information. You can also tweet the links or post them on Facebook etc. so that others know about them.
• Specialist Facebook pages can be made to link to others working on or interested in a topic and build a community. I made three such pages last year.
• Storify is a useful tool that you can use to quickly gather material from the web, including Twitter posts and Instagram images, and collate a ‘story’ by bringing a diverse array of such material together. I made several ‘stories’ last year using this tool, several of which I have used in the same way as I have used my Pinterest boards and Scoop.it and Delicious collections, by gathering research material and also linking to the ‘stories’ in my publications. As part of researching my new book The Social Worlds of the Unborn (due to appear later this year in the Palgrave Pivot series) for example, I made a Storify on news coverage of the announcement of Kate Middleton’s pregnancy late last year. I was able to tweet the link to the Storify the day after the announcement, then use a link to it in a blog post and have included it in my new book as well (along with links to my relevant Pinterest boards and Scoop.it collections on the unborn).
• A curating tool that you can program to automatically bring together articles from certain websites or by topic is a boon. I use Prismatic for this.
• I have also learnt about ‘strategic tweeting’: that is, selecting the best time of the day to tweet when people will be likely to be checking their feed, taking into account different time zones. Although I am based in Australia I have many followers in the northern hemisphere, so I have learnt to allow for this when tweeting. If there is something that you really want to catch people’s attention with, you will probably have to tweet it several times at different times of the day or on different days.
• You can use the ‘altmetrics’ provided by social media tools (eg. number of Twitter followers, number of views of your blog) along with the more usual metrics on citations produced by Web of Science or Google Scholar to demonstrate in job or grant applications that you are participating in engagement with the public as well as making an impact on your field.

Using the tools I mention above has allowed me to keep on top of developments in my current areas of research interest, many of which are rapidly changing as new research or technologies emerge.

As a final observation: I have learnt that the immediacy and range of digital publishing is a feature that no academic should discount. If you want your research findings and ideas to stay behind paywalls, accessed largely only by the relatively small number of academics in your field, and wait for months or even years for even these readers to be able to do so while your material proceeds through the publication process, then avoid using social and other digital forms of publishing. If you would like to see your findings and ideas instantly available to a wide range of readers, then using digital media is the way to go.

NIH Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars

Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars

Status: Open

Applications accepted through Support Centers

Program Overview

The Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars provides supportive mentorship, research opportunities and a collaborative research environment for early stage investigators from the U.S. and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), as defined by the World Bank, to enhance their global health research expertise and their careers. (See The World Bank Country and Lending Groups to identify countries with low- or middle-income economies.)

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Support Centers

Support Centers (funded in part by Fogarty through competitive grants) identify postdoctoral Fellows and doctoral Scholars. See each Support Center website for application deadlines, eligibility, program areas and additional information.

• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California Global Health Institute
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• University of Washington
• Vanderbilt University

The Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars is based on the success and experience of the Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars and Fellows (FICRS-F) Program.

Inquiries

• About the program: NIH awards $20M to train next generation of global health researchers, April 4, 2012
• See Support Center websites below for application deadlines, eligibility, program areas and additional information.

Dr. Myat Htoo Razak
Fogarty International Center
Division of International Training and Research
Building 31, Room B2C39
31 Center Drive, MSC 2220
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220
Telephone: (301) 402-6112
Fax: (301) 402-0779
Email: myathtoo.razak@nih.gov

Partners

The following NIH Institutes, Centers and offices are collaborating with Fogarty on this program.

• Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
• National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• National Eye Institute (NEI)
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
• National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
• National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
• National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
• National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
• Office of AIDS Research (OAR)
• Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH)
• Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)

Archives

• Expired Support Centers Announcement: Limited Competition: Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars (Global Health Fellows) (R25)
• Answers to frequently asked questions for the Global Health Fellows and Scholars Support Centers October 2011 application deadline

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