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When the world’s richest country walks away from global health: A call for research and action

Anne Baber Wallis(1),


(1) Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY USA
Corresponding Author

Abstract


Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human misery. We have the power to make the best generation of mankind in the history of the world. – President John F. Kennedy, address to the United Nations General Assembly, 20 September 1963.

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