Public health. Developing health workforce capacity in Africa.

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Published in Science on December 03, 2010

Authors

Francis S Collins1, Roger I Glass, Jack Whitescarver, Mary Wakefield, Eric P Goosby

Author Affiliations

1: National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

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