{"id":132,"date":"2010-11-04T11:48:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T15:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/?page_id=132"},"modified":"2011-03-03T17:35:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T22:35:32","slug":"policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/what-we-do\/policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Policy<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Currently, biomedical engineering plays a very small role, if any, in  shaping policy on global health issues. A growing body of evidence  indicates that developing countries lack the technical expertise to  strategise the development of context-specific solutions and local  devices. Engineering technology has the capacity to influence current  standards of drug screening and diagnostics in the developing world  context. In order to develop concrete, sustainable solutions to overcome  healthcare challenges in the developing world, it is essential to  capitalise on local talent and develop innovative engineering technical  expertise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the help of current research activities and initiatives, LEED  advocates for a larger emphasis to be placed on building local technical  capacity and harnessing that potential to solve local health issues.  LEED bridges the gap between the global public health community and  medical and engineering professionals through active combination of  communications and advocacy.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\r\n\r\n\r\n  var _gaq = _gaq || [];\r\n  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-19742890-1']);\r\n  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);\r\n\r\n  (function() {\r\n    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true;\r\n    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/ssl' : 'http:\/\/www') + '.google-analytics.com\/ga.js';\r\n    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);\r\n  })();\r\n\r\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policy Currently, biomedical engineering plays a very small role, if any, in shaping policy on global health issues. A growing body of evidence indicates that developing countries lack the technical expertise to strategise the development of context-specific solutions and local devices. Engineering technology has the capacity to influence current standards of drug screening and diagnostics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3934,"featured_media":0,"parent":125,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3934"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions\/832"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}