TDR Thirty Years On: Taking Stock and Envisioning the Future for the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases
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1 Departments of Public Health Sciences and of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2 Program on Life Sciences Ethics and Policy, McLaughlinRotman Centre for Global Health, (University Hospital Network and University of Toronto), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 3 Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4 Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya, 5 Shanghai Research Center on Care for Children, Shanghai Second Medical University, Shanghai, China, 6 Sanaria Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, 7 COHRED, Geneva, Switzerland
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عنوان ژورنال:
- PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
دوره 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008