Erschienen in:
10.01.2023 | Editorial
A Call for Greater Participation of Academia in Public Health
verfasst von:
Dhananjaya Sharma, Sandeep Kumar
Erschienen in:
Indian Journal of Surgery
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Ausgabe 4/2023
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Excerpt
Academia is the pursuit of scholarly disciplines at institutes of higher education. Traditionally much respected, its detractors accuse the academicians of living in silos, arrogantly sitting on their high horses, and being aloof and detached from the harsh realities of the real world. Moreover, its insistence on paying respects at the altar of evidence-based medicine has led to satires about subjecting even common-sense interventions, like the use of parachutes, to a randomized controlled trial [
1]. Recent inquiries into sub-optimal tackling of the ongoing COVID pandemic have found massive global failure at multiple levels [
2‐
4]. Not surprisingly, such introspection has put the performance of academia under a lens and called for reforms [
5]. …