Dartmouth College announced today an anonymous $35-million gift that will enable it to create a Center for Health Care Delivery Science, which the college described as a new field of study bringing together expertise from Dartmouth’s business, engineering, and medical schools. The college’s president, Jim Yong Kim, a physician and former Harvard professor with broad experience in global health issues, said the new field would help improve the nation’s health-care system in ways that go beyond the overhaul that President Obama and Congress enacted this year. The center will focus on five priorities: research, education, collaboration, implementation, and advocacy.
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I wonder about the risk of mixing research, education, and collaboration with implementation and advocacy. Could this result in conflicts of interests?
I wish them luck with this, but it sounds a bit education by committee which those of us in higher ed have ample evidence doesn’t work very well.