Orthodontics : current principles and techniques / edited by Lee W. Graber, Robert L. Vanarsdall Jr., Katherine W.L. Vig.
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A leading orthodontics reference, Orthodontics: Current Principles and Techniques, 5th Edition provides the latest information from the best experts in the field. It reflects today’s emerging techniques, including new information on esthetics, genetics, [...]
By Ross Thuotte - There’s more to this week’s UN General Assembly Meeting than Libya and Palestine, despite the focus of the popular media. The meeting’s extensive agenda includes issues of economic growth, poverty eradication, HIV prevention, and gender parity, which remain high priorities for the general assembly. These issues fall under the scope of the Millennium Development Goals, [...]
By William Savedoff - This week, a high level panel issued its assessment of fiduciary controls at the Global Fund to Fight Aids TB and Malaria. Despite press accounts that describe the report as “devastating” and “toughly worded,” it read more like a dull corporate system evaluation to me. Don’t get me wrong. I actually think that organizations need [...]
By Kate McQueston - This is a joint post with Amanda Glassman. Everyone seems to be throwing their hat into the ring in the battle against non-communicable disease (NCD), from George W. Bush to Lance Armstrong. Now it appears USAID has entered the mix as well. Despite the agency’s absence from a CGD sponsored panel discussion last week, the [...]
By Vijaya Ramachandran - I was delighted to learn yesterday that Tufts University’s Global Development And Environment Institute, will award its 2012 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought to Michael Lipton of Sussex University and to world-renowned agricultural expert and CGD Non-Resident Fellow Peter Timmer. This year’s award, titled “The Global Food Crisis and the Future [...]
By Nancy Birdsall - Christine Lagarde is now firmly in place at the IMF, and her competence, political savvy, and good humor bode well for the institution and the global economy. Indeed, with the crisis in the eurozone upon us, the results of CGD’s spring survey on how a managing director should be chosen at the IMF may feel [...]
By Amanda Glassman - The main outcome of the high-level meeting on NCD is homework for the WHO. WHO is assigned to lead the global response to NCD, develop a monitoring and evaluation framework, provide technical assistance and track progress towards global targets. Yes, it’s another unfunded mandate while WHO is in the midst of a major reform, precipitated [...]
By Amanda Glassman - Global health-ers are increasingly focused on the potential of financial incentives to improve coverage and quality of health services in low- and middle-income countries. CGD ran a whole working group dedicated to financial incentives (see here) and the World Bank –with UK and Norway support- launched a $500 million trust fund to build out and [...]
By Charles Kenny - Back in June, I blogged about a meeting with Dr Maura O’Neill Chief Innovation Officer at USAID, and a very interesting discussion of the importance of learning from failure. The possibility of a USAID FailFaire –or even Fail Summit— was mooted. We’re not quite there yet. And maybe we won’t be until there’s a grand [...]
By Amanda Glassman - This is a joint post with Denizhan Duran, and it originally appeared on The Atlantic. On September 20, heads of state and officials from every country in the world will meet at the United Nations to discuss the non-communicable diseases (NCD) — heart disease, cancers, diabetes, and asthma — that are responsible for 63 percent of [...]
By Todd Moss - This is a joint post with Steph Majerowicz. The Arab Spring has grabbed the world’s attention, yet Iraq—the Arab country that not long ago was the very epicenter of American foreign policy—has all but fallen off the front pages. While Iraq’s security has improved greatly, the country is still struggling to consolidate a functional government [...]By Amanda Glassman - This is a joint post with Kate McQueston. In 9 days, the UN High Level Summit will meet to discuss the detrimental effects of noncommunicable disease (NCDs) and what can be done to mitigate them. If raising awareness was a goal, the meeting has already been a success. Media coverage on global NCD has exploded [...]