The Global Health System: Linking Knowledge with Action—Learning from Malaria
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1 Department of International Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 African Malaria Network Trust, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 3 Sustainability Science Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 4 Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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