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Building on the success of prior Australia-New Zealand Health Services Research Conferences, held in 1999 and 2001, the Fund cosponsored a third conference in Melbourne, Australia, in November 2003. Attended by 375 participants, the gathering was a valuable opportunity to promote the Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and showcase the work of the Fund and its grantees.
Through its Small Grants Program, the Fund supports efforts to learn from other countries' innovations. Projects in 2003-04 included work by Harkness Canadian Associate Steven Morgan at the University of British Columbia to assess Canadian experiences with evidence-based purchasing of pharmaceuticals and the implications for Medicaid demonstration projects in the United States. A grant to Linda Aiken, Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania will support analysis of international nursing shortages and demand, trends in nurse migration among OECD member countries, and country policies to attract nurses and improve retention.
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