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...member of the New York group, which met Monday to choose its best. The job is simple: tear yellow-lined paper into cracker-size bits; write a name or three on one piece; wait while the names are read out and tabulated; vote again and again; finally reach a consensus in this category; and go back to square one. It's about as much fun as filling out an income-tax form, though less fraught with drama. Indeed, the only excitement yesterday came in the Best Film voting, when The Queen and United 93, which reconstructs some of the chaos...
Last week, the national student advocacy group, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, officially released the Philadelphia Consensus Statement on University Policies for Health Related Innovations, which calls upon universities to adopt research and technology transfer policies that promote global health. The growing list of signatories include Harold Varmus and three other Nobel laureates; Paul Farmer, Harvard Medical School (HMS) Professor and Co-Founder of Partners in Health; Jim Kim, Director of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Center for Health and Human Rights and Former Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of HIV/AIDS; and Jeffrey Sachs, Director...
...exemplar. The recent removal of Early Action illustrates how Harvard is unique in its ability to act as a solo mover. Similarly, any steps taken by Harvard in promoting positive research policies will likely spur ripple effects across the country. Just five years ago, the “Consensus Statement of Antiretroviral Treatment for AIDS in Poor Countries,” developed by Harvard faculty across the University, helped change conventional wisdom that AIDS therapy could not be successfully delivered to individuals in resource-poor settings...
...economics concentrator in Kirkland House. Matthew F. Basilico ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Mather House. Jonathan E. Soverow, a MPH candidate at the School of Public Health, is a member of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines. The Philadelphia Consensus Statement is available online at www.essentialmedicine.org/cs.
This year is a defining year to determine which path the UC should choose for its Web site. The student body is faced with a difficult decision. After long intense meetings, we on the editorial board have finally reached a consensus for our endorsement. We endorse eventually writing a position paper for a new Web site. Expect it in a few years...