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Moving Medicine, Moving Minds: Helping Developing Countries Overcome Barriers to Outsourcing Health Commodity Distribution to Boost Supply Chain Performance and Strengthen Health Systems

Priya Agrawal, Iain Barton, Roberto Dal Bianco, Dana Hovig, David Sarley and Prashant Yadav
Global Health: Science and Practice September 2016, 4(3):359-365; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00130
Priya Agrawal
aMerck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA. Merck & Co., Inc. is known as MSD outside the United States and Canada
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Iain Barton
bImperial Health Sciences, Gauteng, South Africa
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aMerck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA. Merck & Co., Inc. is known as MSD outside the United States and Canada
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Dana Hovig
cThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA
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cThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA
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Prashant Yadav
dUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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vol. 4 no. 3 359-365
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00130
PubMed 
27688714

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Global Health: Science and Practice
Online ISSN 
2169-575X
History 
  • Received: April 21, 2016
  • Accepted: August 26, 2016
  • Published online September 29, 2016.

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© Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00130.

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  1. Priya Agrawala⇑,
  2. Iain Bartonb,
  3. Roberto Dal Biancoa,
  4. Dana Hovigc,
  5. David Sarleyc,
  6. Prashant Yadavd
  1. aMerck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA. Merck & Co., Inc. is known as MSD outside the United States and Canada
  2. bImperial Health Sciences, Gauteng, South Africa
  3. cThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA
  4. dUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
  1. Correspondence to Priya Agrawal (Priya.agrawal{at}merck.com).
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