The professional rather than the patient view dominates the NCD agenda and there is a lack of a broad, engaged, and independent NGO community.
The lack of a broad, engaged NGO community in the NCD agenda-setting is said to be one reason why the industry view is so strong (30); others have observed how the rise of the 'corporate now' now dominates civil society participation in the NCD space, effectively crowding out more progressive, independent, community-based organisations (David Sanders, personal communication).
The plan was to support a series of virtual conferences with each addressing a single Sun-to-Earth science topic, sufficiently broad to engage all disciplines, but also sufficiently focused to ensure those same disciplines intersected, rather than operated independently.
The former governor of Montana said a dumb thing to the National Journal, but he may have said something useful to a broader, less engaged swath of the American people.
This is a good sign of the broader society engaging with eye health.
It is a broader reluctance to engage, to assert responsibility, to commit.
Unlike Smokey, whose purpose was summed up by his signature slogan, "Only you can prevent forest fires," Woodsy had a broader mission: to engage children in the fight against pollution and promote programs advocating appropriate use of the environment.
The more transparent process seems unlikely to engage broader public participation or create a groundswell for a woman.
We have beefed up our social media presence as part of our broader initiative to engage fans -- especially to reach younger fans where they live, which is online.
As an opportunity to engage broader audiences on these concerns, bioethicists have welcomed the commercial success of Rebecca Skloot's 2010 bestselling book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
