Grand Challenges in Global Health: The Ethical, Social and Cultural Program

Peter A Singer; Andrew D Taylor; Abdallah S Daar; Ross E. G Upshur; Jerome A Singh; James V Lavery

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040265

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Grand Challenges in Global Health: The Ethical, Social and Cultural Program

Peter A Singer ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: peter.singer@utoronto.ca
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Andrew D Taylor,
Abdallah S Daar,
Ross E. G Upshur,
Jerome A Singh,
James V Lavery

Grand Challenges in Global Health: The Ethical, Social and Cultural Program

Peter A Singer,
Andrew D Taylor,
Abdallah S Daar,
Ross E. G Upshur,
Jerome A Singh,
James V Lavery

Published: September 11, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040265

About the Authors

Peter A Singer: *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: peter.singer@utoronto.ca
Andrew D Taylor
Abdallah S Daar
Ross E. G Upshur
Jerome A Singh
James V Lavery

Competing Interests

The authors work on the Ethical, Social and Cultural Program for the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative, which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. An early draft of this paper was circulated to the Grand Challenges in Global Health community, including program officers of the supporting foundations who had the opportunity to provide comments.

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