Responsible governance for mental health research in low resource countries.

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Published in PLoS Med on November 22, 2011

Authors

M Taghi Yasamy1, Pallab K Maulik, Mark Tomlinson, Crick Lund, Mark Van Ommeren, Shekhar Saxena

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. yasamym@who.int

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