November 28, 2013: The
Summit on the Global Agenda is the world’s largest brainstorming event, which annually convenes over 900 thought leaders from globally recognized expert communities for the World Economic Forum’s Network of Global Agenda Councils. This year, council members, including our President, Dr. Sania Nishtar met at...
November 27, 2013: Launched in Recife, Brazil, this month, the
Bulletin of the World Health Organization was a themed issue with a focus on Universal Health Coverage. The launch was held to mark WHO’s Third Global Forum on Human Resource for Health and thus the theme of the issue...
November 27, 2013 The GAVI Alliance held its
Board meeting in Cambodia on November 21-22, 2013 to identify the new vaccines to be added to the organization's portfolio of support. The GAVI Alliance Board is intended to provide a platform for strategic direction and policy-making that will oversee the...
Nishtar S and Ralston J. Can human resources for health in the context of non-communicable disease control be a lever for health system changes? Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2013 November; 91(11):895-896. doi: 10.2471/BLT.13.118711.
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November 13, 2013: Over the years, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars has developed a strong brand for publications on Pakistan. On November 6
th, 2013, through its Asia Program and Comparative Urban Studies Project and the Fellowship Fund for Pakistan, the Center held its latest conference,
Pakistan’s Galloping...
November 12, 2013: The disease burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is exceptionally high in the developing world with 80% of deaths caused by NCDs occurring in low and middle income countries alone. Within that context, the John Hopkins University press has recently released a new book, titled
Noncommunicable Diseases...
Published in The News International on November 07, 2013:
The Supreme Court of Pakistan instructed the provincial authorities in April 2012 to hold local government elections “without delay”. The reason was simple. The provinces had long been delaying the legislative process and the holding of local government elections.
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Published in The News International on November 01, 2013:
Earlier last month, the Supreme Court directed the government to put in place the necessary institutional arrangements at the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, in particular hiring of the three members central to the governance of this regulatory body, so that the long...
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