Reforming Graduate Education: Improve the capacity of graduate programs to attract talented students by addressing issues such as attrition rates, time-to-degree, funding, and alignment with both student career opportunities and national interests.
Research Universities exhorts universities to "improve the capacity of graduate programs to attract talented students by addressing issues such as attrition rates, time to degree, funding, and alignment with both student career opportunities and national interests".
Given these other potential contributors to decision-making about disease funding, perfect alignment with DALYs or any other measure of disease burden would not be expected.
While some investment funds do have incentive-based fees – including the famous "2 and 20" for many hedge funds – the alignment is still weak because more assets always means more potential fees.
With a massive transfer of wealth from baby boomers to millennials, how can these wealthy individuals be encouraged to invest their funds in alignment with their values?
The state cited that this new northerly alignment, funded by the cancellation of the Somerset Freeway, would serve better needs of the people.
But amidst continued funding battles and organizational alignment struggles, they might make things easier than they are today.
Finally, the policy recommendations to address "fiscal and monetary deficiencies" in the GNSI focus more on the alignment of funding, fiscal and monetary, support of performance and the development of monitoring and audit instruments.
Also, while creating a business case is so important for getting stakeholder alignment and funding, more important for us as designers is to understand what we are designing for - the factors that we need to focus on depending on what we are creating.
Lack of improvement in alignment between funding and disease burden may not indicate neglect of the 1998 IOM recommendations by the NIH; there are several other possible explanations.
