Where There Is No Health Research: What Can Be Done to Fill the Global Gaps in Health Research?
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1 European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 2 Department of Sociology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, 4 Division of General Internal Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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