This week PLoS Medicine publishes the third in a four-part series of policy papers examining the ways in which global health institutions and arrangements are changing and evolving.
In this third paper, Gerald Keusch (Boston University School of Public Health) and colleagues explore the changing global health system for malaria research and the delivery of research products to those at risk of the disease. They examine the organizations and actors involved, and the arrangements that govern their interaction, and they speculate about the future of malaria research and control.
Funding: This work was supported by a grant to the Institutional Innovations in Global Health project by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (US) under its ''Acting in Time'' program. Additional support was received from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (US). The funders played no role in the decision to submit the article or in its preparation.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Citation: Keusch GT, Kilama WL, Moon S, Szlezak NA, Michaud CM (2010) The Global Health System: Linking Knowledge with Action—Learning from Malaria. PLoS Med 7(1): e1000179. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000179
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