Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 85, Number 12, December 2007, 901-980

IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN

Special issue: public health education; Linking education and practice; In the news; Public health debate; Public health classic; Monitoring immunization; Transplant tourism; Pandemic plans; Diplomacy and health

EDITORIALS

Shaping public health education around the world to address health challenges in the coming decades
- Ritu Sadana & Alena Petrakova
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049247

Regional public health education: current situation and challenges
- Viroj Tangcharoensathien & Phusit Prakongsai
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048587

A new global framework for immunization monitoring and surveillance
- A Dabbagh et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048223

Current concerns in transplantation
- Luc Noël
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049734

NEWS

News

The pull of public health studies

Public health schools: six portraits

A snapshot of the world’s public health schools

WHO News

How Brazil turned one public health school into 40

Recent news from WHO

RESEARCH

Mapping Africa’s advanced public health education capacity: the AfriHealth project
- CB IJsselmuiden et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045526

Progress and shortcomings in European national strategic plans for pandemic influenza
- Sandra Mounier-Jack et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.039834

POLICY AND PRACTICE

Capacity-building for public health: http://peoples-uni.org
- Richard F Heller et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.044388

Maximizing the contribution of the public health workforce: the English experience
- F Sim et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.044289

International perspectives on the ethics and regulation of human cell and tissue transplantation
- Annette Schulz-Baldes et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.038703

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

Training of public health workforce at the National School of Public Health: meeting Africa’s needs
- Kebogile Mokwena et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.044552

PUBLIC HEALTH REVIEWS

The state of the international organ trade: a provisional picture based on integration of available information
- Yosuke Shimazono
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.039370

ROUND TABLE

Problems and progress in public health education
- Alena Petrakova & Ritu Sadana
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.046110

A Bangladeshi approach
- Mushtaque Chowdhury
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048934

Solving problems
- Barry R Bloom
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048819

Producing a capable workforce
- Kuku Voyi
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048876

The challenges of scaling-up
- Andy Haines & Sharon Huttly
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048900

Strategic training for health in Brazil
- Antônio Ivo de Carvalho
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049031

Setting-up in a transitional country
- Maksut Kulzhanov
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049056

Lessons, challenges and future plans from Kerala, India
- K R Thankappan
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048892

The role of information and communications technology
- James A Merchant et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048975

PERSPECTIVES

Global health diplomacy: training across disciplines
- Ilona Kickbusch et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045856

A solution for creating competent health-care specialists: the Swiss School of Public Health+
- Ursula A Ackermann-Liebrich et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.044784

PUBLIC HEALTH CLASSICS

Models of public health education: choices for the future?
- Elizabeth Fee & Liping Bu
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.044883

BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Building Leadership for Health
- Graham Lister
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.044313

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SAGE: requests for nominations

The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) is the principal advisory group to WHO for vaccines and immunization. WHO is soliciting nominations for experts from the African, Eastern Mediterranean, European and Western Pacific regions.

Nominations should be submitted no later than 28 June 2013, following the instructions provided at: http://www.who.int/immunization/sage_nominations