Setting Research Priorities to Reduce Global Mortality from Childhood Pneumonia by 2015
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1 Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 2 Croatian Centre for Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia, 3 ICDDR, B Centre for Health and Population Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 4 Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, 5 Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 6 Nossal Institute for Global Health, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia, 7 Department of Health, UNICEF, New York, New York, United States of America, 8 Centre for International Child Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, 9 Save the Children, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America, 10 Senior Advisor in Public Health and Respiratory Diseases, Mar de Plata, Argentina, 11 Department of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, The Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado, United States of America, 12 Institute for Child Health IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy, 13 WHO Country Office, Jakarta, Indonesia, 14 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 15 Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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