The case for a global rare-diseases registry.
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My submission, #4 (9/28/2009, archived online at www.policyscience.net) for your study group urged global health as a new area with emerging, extraordinary opportunities for US leadership, accelerating progress, and strengthening shared humanitarian concerns. As you may recall, I enclosed a copy of a letter of July 21, 2009 to Stephen Groft at NIH re ideas for a Rapid-Learning International Health System and excerpts from the National Intelligence Council's "Strategic Implications of Global Health" analysis in 2008.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Lancet
دوره 377 9771 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011