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Academic Health Center
Organization and Governance
The Multinational Academic Health Center
A confluence of economic and technological advances, coupled with pressing worldwide health needs, presents a convincing case for a new paradigm of the academic health center. The vision for this paradigm is a new type of entity: the multinational academic health center.
At this critical juncture of need and opportunity, academic health centers must position themselves as agents of change that embody and personify the ideals of equality and justice, as they work for both economic and societal progress.
Academic health centers must think collectively and act internationally, as they work together to develop a shared idea of how to foster a world environment driven by the ideals of improving the public good. [Read more…]
- Steven A. Wartman, MD, PhD, AAHC President and CEO
The Academic Health Center: Evolving Organizational Models
Academic health centers will undergo a process of accelerated change as the result of strategic planning processes that drive leaders to make the hard decisions about resource allocation.
Defining India's Future
The Honorable Anbumani Ramadoss, Union Minister, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, and Nirmal Kumar Ganguly, MD, Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research, speak about the future and structure of academic health centers and medical research in India at the AAHC 2007 International Forum.