The Economic and Social Research Council (UK) for funding support to Dr Bisht's fellowship; RES-075-25-0015 India's Challenge in a Globalizing Healthcare Economy: Social Science Directions.
With the research budget reductions of government agencies like NSF and NIH, should we re-think about how to effectively support science projects and how to reorient science directions?
This past weekend nearly 500 dedicated activists met in Nashville to spend two and a half days reflecting on the current science and direction of the Earth's changing climate.
"Exciting computer science research directions," Heidelberg Forum, Heidelberg, Germany, Sept. 19, 2016.
In 1984, after receiving hostile reviews for the science-fiction direction her work had taken, Doris Lessing assumed the pseudonym Jane Somers, and sent a manuscript under this new name to her publisher.
Even in the harder sciences the direction of research can be shaped by powerful figures and sexy specialisms, and he is not slow to say when he thinks some popular line of research is heading up a blind alley.
The Web site of AAAS (publisher of Science) contains directions for how individual scientists can add to the pressure.
Ironically, if politicians and CEOs had a better understanding of how real scientific progress is achieved, they would realize steering science in this direction would inevitably hurt corporations and the economy on the long run.
In June 2006, the Haitian Ministry of Health and Population (MSPP), specifically the directorate that is in charge of health science education, the Direction de Formation et de Perfectionnement en Sciences de la Santé (DFPSS), and I-TECH started a process of integrating current HIV/AIDS knowledge, skills and attitudes into the current curriculum using a competency-based approach.
To move forward in a positive direction, science must not presume to set the destination for a technology, but should follow the direction that we, the people, provide.
