The Profile of Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) research in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: Analyzing the NCD burden, research outputs and international research collaboration

• Ajay Aggarwal ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ajay.aggarwal@kcl.ac.uk

  Affiliations Institute of Cancer Policy, Cancer Epidemiology, Population & Global Health, School of Cancer Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Clinical Oncology, Guy’s & St.Thomas’ NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9645-6659

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• Preeti Patel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of War Studies, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, Conflict and Health Research Group, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Grant Lewison,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Cancer Policy, Cancer Epidemiology, Population & Global Health, School of Cancer Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4493-1216

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• Abdulkarim Ekzayez,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of War Studies, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, Conflict and Health Research Group, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2104-3363

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• Adam Coutts,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Fouad M. Fouad,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Health Institute/Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Omar Shamieh,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation King Hussein Cancer Center, Amman, Jordan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3635-8624

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• Rita Giacaman,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Birzeit, West Bank, occupied Palestinian territory

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• Tezer Kutluk,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

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• Rima Abdul Khalek,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Health Institute/Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Mark Lawler,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Queen’s University Belfast, Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Belfast, United Kingdom

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• Peter Boyle,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France

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• Diana Sarfati,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

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• Richard Sullivan

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Cancer Policy, Cancer Epidemiology, Population & Global Health, School of Cancer Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, Conflict and Health Research Group, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

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