Comments for Eric P. Green

Comment on CGI ‘09: Evaluation and #cgi10 by Global Health Progress » Roundup: 2009 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:08:47 +0000

[...] “CGI ’09: Evaluation and #cgi10” – Eric P. Green Dr. Green dedicated his blog to a five-part series on the CGI meeting last week. In this post, Dr. Green expressed his desire to learn more about CGI’s database tracking members’ Commitments to Action. He would also like to see more conversations that include discussions evaluating “what works” on the ground. [...]

Comment on Mapping Haiti After the Earthquake by Eric Green

Eric Green — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:11:58 +0000

Unfortunately I was in Ethiopia and offline when the earthquake hit. I missed all of the good volunteer mapping work. Trying to get up to speed to discuss it in my mapping course at NYU.

Comment on Mapping Haiti After the Earthquake by rapuffer

rapuffer — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:08:10 +0000

if you need help that I might be able to offer when you do these things, let me know.

Comment on Survive Now, Talk Later by RAPuffer

RAPuffer — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:24:24 +0000

that was interesting to read and maybe the role of mental health professionals is to try to help people establish those contacts you describe in the first part – so often it looks like people don’t know how to reach out to family, friends, other institutions and they may need guidance even in those early stages.

Comment on Public Health and Psychology Working Papers? by A. Tsai

A. Tsai — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:48:14 +0000

I am not certain about this, but I suspect it has to do with the differing traditions of information dissemination in the two fields. In economics (I don’t know anything about law), as you hinted at in the post, posting draft papers on Web sites is encouraged, and one can present a paper at numerous “brown bag seminars” before the paper is finally submitted for publication. When the paper actually appears in the print journal, it is more of an afterthought, because all of the reputation-building and most of the peer-review has already informally taken place.

In public health (I don’t know anything about psychology), it is a little different because medical journals explicitly discourage the practice of presenting a study at multiple conferences or seminars (and many journals request that you disclose the name of the conference or conferences where you have presented). I think this has to do with the emphasis in medicine on “scoops” and being the first to publish this or that finding. Your presenting the findings at a conference undercuts the value of the publication to the medical journal because it undercuts the paper’s contribution to the medical journal’s ability to attract advertising dollars (which are critical to a medical journal’s budget, and therefore critical to the medical societies that publish the journals). I would bet that advertising accounts for a teeny tiny proportion of the budget at journals like AER, QJE, and PE.

Well, that’s my guess. I’d be interested in hearing other thoughts.

Comment on It’s a long way from West Africa by Denise Dunovant

Denise Dunovant — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:09:36 +0000

I thought of you every time I saw that commercial, Eric!

Comment on Über Shelter by Steven Coker

Steven Coker — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:25:03 +0000

Are these temp shelters on the market now or more a concept? If they are available, I am interested in speaking with you about them. I am involved with the Haitian relief effort and see some serious value here. Let me know as soon as you can.

Steve

Comment on A second, third world? by Meg Wirth

Meg Wirth — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:57:06 +0000

I love this idea…both to spread awareness and do controlled experiments??

Comment on Über Shelter by jklawlor

jklawlor — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:32:19 +0000

I would love info on these shelters as we are doing a project in the south pacific that could use such shelters

Comment on Where + When by Drew Mattison

Drew Mattison — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:36:50 +0000

Secondary note:

The required disclaimer is for NFR (Not For Resale) licenses only. It is NOT required for a commercial or education license. I hope that helps clarify the expectations.

Drew