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AbstractOur experience of teaching a graduate‐student module entitled 'Global Cities' in Singapore forms the starting point for reflection on the limitations of the global‐ and world‐cities paradigms. Otherwise varied strands of critique, we argue, may be understood in terms of a common tendency in Anglophone urban and regional research. We term this tendency 'metrocentricity'. While this intervention in many ways echoes important existing critiques (Robinson, 2006; Roy, 2009), it is intended to call attention in particular to the need for alternative practices or ways of doing urban and regional research. After identifying metrocentric tendencies, we consider how teaching and research might be (re)oriented both conceptually and methodologically beyond metrocentricity. In making this case, we invoke insights from feminist geographies that view research as embodied work. Valorizing the diverse, situated practices and engagements of a range of actors — including but not limited to academics — is a key starting point for less metrocentric urban and regional studies.Résumé Notre expérience d'enseignement de troisième cycle à Singapour dans le cadre d'un module consacré aux villes planétaires est à l'origine d'une réflexion sur les limites des paradigmes de ville mondiale et ville planétaire. D'autres axes critiques peuvent, selon nous, répondre à une tendance courante dans les sphères anglophones de la recherche urbaine et régionale, tendance que nous appelons 'métrocentricité'. Par bien des aspects, ce travail fait écho à d'importantes critiques existantes, mais il cherche plus particulièrement à attirer l'attention sur la nécessité de pratiques ou de modes de réalisation différents en matière de recherche sur les villes et les régions. Une fois les tendances métrocentriques identifiées, sont envisagées les possibilités d'orienter ou de réorienter enseignement et recherche sur le plan conceptuel et méthodologique en échappant à cette métrocentricité. Pour exposer cette position, nous rappelons l'éclairage des géographies féministes qui considèrent la recherche comme un travail incorporé. Valoriser la diversité des pratiques et des engagements situés d'un éventail d'acteurs (y compris les chercheurs) constitue un point de départ essentiel pour produire des études urbaines et régionales moins métrocentriques.

ObjectivesCOVID-19 accentuated the importance of breaking down data siloes and aligning incentives for data access, collection, and use. Health Data Research Network Canada (HDRN Canada) is responding to this challenge, bringing together people and organizations to transform health data use in Canada.
ApproachHDRN Canada's foundation is its partnership of 20 pan-Canadian, provincial and territorial data organizations that together are enabling multi-regional research. This is being enriched with HDRN Canada's development of the Canada Health Data Research Alliance (HDR Alliance). The HDR Alliance coordinates expansion of sources and types of data available while retaining organizational independence. A project-based pilot approach is underway with two large pan-Canadian, longitudinal, consented cohort studies being linked at HDRN Canada sites. In addition, a collaboration with a pan-Canadian COVID19 clinical trials network is ensuring that clinical data are collected in ways that enables linkage with population-based administrative data.
ResultsHDRN Canada has created a single data access portal for researchers with information on over 500 datasets and supported 72 research projects to date. Work on the HDR Alliance adds data from the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow's Health and the Canadian Longitudinal Survey on Aging. The former includes 350,000 individuals, and survey data (including related to COVID-19), physical measures and genomics. The latter includes 50,000 individuals with survey data and physical measures. Four multi-region clinical trials are being planned with the support of HDRN Canada. Even with aligned incentives, challenges navigating data governance and access processes remain. Collaborations are necessary to address these complexities and enable access to richer data in an efficient and timely matter.
ConclusionStrong partnerships are critical to unlocking the potential of Canada's data assets and expertise. The HDR Alliance provides a collaboration mechanism to increase the "findability", accessibility and utility of data assets, while addressing complex issues in the data landscape. This increases research opportunities and the impact of population-based, linkable data.

The degree conferred upon me by the University of America with the concurrence of the 24 universities of the Republic of Colombia is a powerful incentive to the work of the Inter-American Development Bank in the field of higher education and research in Latin America. You will forgive me, then, if I take this occasion to mention the role of the Inter-American Bank as the "Bank of the Latin American University," a role which has placed it in the vanguard of an impressive process of international cooperation for the modernization and decisive expansion of higher education in the Hemisphere. The $55 million it has loaned to 71 institutions in 17 countries bear eloquent testimony to an abiding preoccupation of the Bank in its brief years of existence.

This volume focuses on frontiers in regional research and identifies trends and future developments in the areas of innovation, regional growth and migration. It also addresses topics such as mobility, regional forecasting, and regional policy, and includes expert contributions on disasters, resilience, and sustainability. Building on recent methodological and modelling advances, as well as on extensive policy-analysis experience, top international regional scientists identify and evaluate emerging new conceptual and methodological trends and directions in regional research. This book will appeal to a wide readership, from regional scientists and economists to geographers, quantitatively oriented regional planners and other related disciplines. It offers a source of relevant information for academic researchers and policy analysts in government, and is also suitable for advanced teaching courses on regional and spatial science, economics and political science

This volume focuses on frontiers in regional research and identifies trends and future developments in the areas of innovation, regional growth and migration. It also addresses topics such as mobility, regional forecasting, and regional policy, and includes expert contributions on disasters, resilience, and sustainability. Building on recent methodological and modelling advances, as well as on extensive policy-analysis experience, top international regional scientists identify and evaluate emerging new conceptual and methodological trends and directions in regional research. This book will appeal to a wide readership, from regional scientists and economists to geographers, quantitatively oriented regional planners and other related disciplines. It offers a source of relevant information for academic researchers and policy analysts in government, and is also suitable for advanced teaching courses on regional and spatial science, economics and political science.