Academic health science systems.

摘要

Academic health science centres (AHSCs) can indeed have important roles in the discovery-care continuum and in global health. However, this move will not only require organisational transformation of AHSCs, but also reorganisation of AHSC career paths, educational systems, and funding mechanisms.The current trend in AHSC career paths is one of specialisation. However, in the paradigm presented by Victor Dzau and colleagues, AHSCs would need professionals who have sufficient understanding of different aspects of the discovery-care continuum to be able to facilitate the translation of discoveries into clinical applications, and clinical applications into public health programmes.