KML, PYC, and FN were not involved in any of the other interviews with VHX trial participants, investigators, or funder representatives.
We conducted nineteen in-depth interviews with trial stakeholders, including investigators, trial participants, community advisory board members, and funder representatives; directly observed at trial sites over a five-week period; and collected trial-related documents for analysis.
This roundtable discussion offers diverse perspectives from a range of stakeholders – a health funder, a representative from an implementing organization, a national-level policy-maker, and an expert working in a large multi-national company – on what the future may hold for the private sector in health.
Third, theme-specific workshops at the international level were conducted, where key stakeholders (primarily researchers, but also policy makers, research funders, and representatives of international organizations) were asked to clarify and discuss the emerging priority research questions and rank them.
We selected the European Commission, and the United States because they are two of the more influential actors in so far as they rank among the Global Fund's biggest funders and have a representative on the Global Fund Board.
Speakers and attendees of the PDN meeting focused on ways to work with institutions, societies, and mentors to implement changes for postdoctoral scholars across the U.S. Meeting attendees were a mixture of postdocs (52%), faculty (8%), academic administrators (many of whom--26%--hold a dual faculty role), funders, disciplinary society representatives, and others (14%).
Shortly after the summit, philanthropist Bill Gates convened a special dinner that included the working group established by the Bank President James Wolfensohn, potential funders, activists, and representatives of NGOs.
Walker admitted to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 1997 that he and Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen -- then the ALEC State Chair for Wisconsin -- had met with representatives of ALEC funder Wackenhut, and that ALEC funder CCA had also visited Wisconsin in a quest to build for-profit prisons in the state.
The research involved collaboration between the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team/Ottawa research team and representatives from the funder.
Representatives from funders gave the impression that they normally expected recruitment procedures to have been piloted and problems identified before embarking on the main study.
The use of local program theories, which allow decision makers to describe, in explicit terms, how they expect their CHW programs to work, can facilitate communication among program developers, researchers, policy makers, community representatives, and funders.
