Minimally Invasive Autopsy: A New Paradigm for Understanding Global Health?

Peter Byass

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002173

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Minimally Invasive Autopsy: A New Paradigm for Understanding Global Health?

Peter Byass

* E-mail: peter.byass@umu.se

Affiliations WHO Collaborating Centre for Verbal Autopsy, Epidemiology & Global Health, Dept. of Public Health & Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, MRC-Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5474-4361

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Minimally Invasive Autopsy: A New Paradigm for Understanding Global Health?

Peter Byass

Published: November 22, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002173

About the Authors

Peter Byass

* E-mail: peter.byass@umu.se

Affiliations WHO Collaborating Centre for Verbal Autopsy, Epidemiology & Global Health, Dept. of Public Health & Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, MRC-Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5474-4361

Competing Interests

PB is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine.

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