Your Place, Your Space

An animal life used for medical science is not a discardable existence. Yet our international community disregards unnecessary suffering as it maintains a status quo of chaos and disorganization.  Like a strategic administrative assistant flown in from overseas to an academic medicine department hiring to do ‘whatever the doctor wants me to’ ,  chaos and disorganization may serve the unsupervised, unscrupulous researcher. Chaos and disorganization creates circumstances in which some can do whatever they want. However, only structured principles and rules allow us to advance data into medicine practice. So only structured principles and rules should guide the involvement of other life forms, particularly those that experience pain and emotion.  Global structure around the use of animals in medical science should encompass all biological science. Rules and requirements will always receive knee-jerk pushback, so we should start confidently, definitively and clearly. Minimal paths forward

A leadership presence at the table means little without mutual respect and a consistent, reliable, collaborative presence in one another’s space. Healthcare leadership does require influential action, not just parental correspondence or command.  As global health improves on leadership and collaboration in an increasingly small world, we can help balance global health work for maximum influence and leadership presence. *List and detail international health agencies, by charitable organization and governing status. Detail the duplication, reach and leadership. Involve agencies together, through liaisons. *Evaluate world health organization (WHO) and other agency credibility, respect and influence. Evaluate this by peer organization, interindustry organization and by country. Ask for survey creation and feedback assistance. Respect unbiased response.  * Dedicate a strategic plan to extend global health into national health and partner agency collaboration. Create action with urgency, req