Session 6: From “Bench to Trench”: Accelerating Knowledge Transfer
Vish Viswanath, Associate Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Knowledge Transfer Session Background
Please come prepared to answer the following questions:
1) What are the models that you are using or have used in the past?
2) How can these models be adapted – localized and customized, to Indian conditions?
3) How does one mobilize different sectors and motivate them to work on problems in a collaborative way?
4) How do we create learning teams to promote and accelerate knowledge transfer?
5) What core competencies are needed to train future workforce to access, manage, and use the information that is being generated?
Session 7: Strategic Shifts – Leveraging Libraries in the 21st Century
Deb Wallace, Executive Director, Knowledge and Library Services, Harvard Business School
Laura Linard, Director of Special Collections, Knowledge and Library Services, Harvard Business School
Knowledge and Library Services Strategy Documents
Session 8: Linkages Between Scholarly Research and Policy-Setting
Merilee Grindle, Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development, Center for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
Required reading:
The following three articles are from the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM), 27 (1), 2008 and are recommended: (1) John Ellwood, “Challenges to Public Policy and Public Management Education.” (2) Iris Geva-May et al, “MPP Programs Emerging Around the World.” (3) Scott Fritzen, “Public Policy Education Goes Global: A Multi-Dimensional Challenge.”
Please come prepared to answer the following questions:
1) What is the purpose of a program/school of public policy?
2) What are the challenges facing the development of new programs/schools of public policy?
3) In what ways can programs/schools of public policy be made relevant for the future?