Promoting high quality research into priority health needs in Latin America and Caribbean

BMJ. 2018 Jul 16:362:k2492. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k2492.

Fabio Zicker^{1

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3}, Luis Gabriel Cuervo^{4

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6}, Luis Alejandro Salicrup^{4

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6}

¹ Centre for Technological Development in Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil fabio.zicker@gmail.com.
² Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA fabio.zicker@gmail.com.
³ Center for Global Health, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MA, USA fabio.zicker@gmail.com.
⁴ Centre for Technological Development in Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁵ Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA.
⁶ Center for Global Health, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MA, USA.

Abstract

The region still needs to build its research capacity to inform effective public health policy and practices, say Fabio Zicker and colleagues