Indicators of sustainable capacity building for health research: analysis of four African case studies.

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Published in Health Res Policy Syst on March 28, 2011

Authors

Imelda Bates1, Miriam Taegtmeyer, S Bertel Squire, Daniel Ansong, Bertha Nhlema-Simwaka, Amuda Baba, Sally Theobald

Author Affiliations

1: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK. ibates@liverpool.ac.uk.

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