Asked about the increased use of prison labour by councils, Mehboob Khan, who chairs a programme board at the Local Government Group, an umbrella body to improve councils' performance, says: "The links between councils and prisons will depend on what connections they have established.
End-users of the KT intervention will include patients, clinicians (from all disciplines), public health officials (including medical officers of health, department chairs and programme managers), healthcare managers and policy-makers (including regional, provincial/state and federal), and will look at any clinical or healthcare system outcomes.
A foundation source said some staff had left earlier than scheduled, though a foundation spokesperson said only people not required had left while the four senior and relevant staff – the director, the deputy, the chair and programme manager – remained, along with 50 civil society delegates from the Commonwealth People's Forum to attend a foreign minister's meeting on Saturday.
The challenges of ensuring participation in teleconferences across disparate time zones was successfully addressed by holding teleconferences with identical agendas at two different times in the same day, with the chair and programme management team present at both to provide continuity.
The Investigational New Drug (IND) programme, chaired and co-chaired by Drs Elizabeth Eisenhauer and Lesley Seymour, interfaces with the BCSG to carry out phase II trials with a variety of new agents.
As the South African Chair for Health Policy and Systems Research, JE acknowledges the support of the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) programme of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), administered by the NRF.
Leaders in global health were contacted, and with the assistance of programme chairs, these leaders identified additional key faculty members and residents who they felt could add value to the process.
Prof Lou Harms, who chaired the local programme committee for the conference, described the event as an "intellectual speed dating experience".
He also chaired the Work Programme on Small Economies, the dedicated session on Aid-for-Trade, and the African Group, and was coordinator of the African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) Group.
The weekly discussion programme, chaired by David Dimbleby, will be preceded by extra discussion of the issues making news, starting at 22 00.
The founding Chair of Major Programme Management at Oxford University, Flyvbjerg also wrote an article in The New Scientist, "Mega delusional: The Curse of the Megaproject".
