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Editorial
. 2018 Jan 30;15(1):e1002498.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002498. eCollection 2018 Jan.

What's coming for health science and policy in 2018? Global experts look ahead in their field

PLOS Medicine Editors; Soumya Swaminathan  1 , Robin S Room  2   3 , Louise C Ivers  4   5 , Graham Hillis  6   7 , Rebecca F Grais  8 , Zulfiqar A Bhutta  9   10 , Peter Byass  11   12   13
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Editorial

What's coming for health science and policy in 2018? Global experts look ahead in their field

PLOS Medicine Editors et al. PLoS Med. .

Abstract

In PLOS Medicine's first editorial of 2018, editorial board members and other leading researchers share their hopes, pleas, concerns, and expectations for this year in health research and policy.

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The PLOS Medicine Editors’ individual competing interests are at http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/s/staff-editors. PLOS is funded partly through manuscript publication charges, but the PLOS Medicine Editors are paid a fixed salary (their salaries are not linked to the number of papers published in the journal). RSR receives funding from the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, an Australian nongovernmental organization committed to public health-oriented alcohol policy development. RSR is editor-in-chief of Drug and Alcohol Review; this position includes membership in Council of the Australian Professional Society on Alcohol and Other Drugs. RSR is also a representative of the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research at the Alcohol Policy Coalition (Victoria, Australia). PB has served intermittently as an unpaid advisor to WHO, receiving appropriate travel and expenses. ZAB is co-chair of the Countdown to 2030 consortium, board member of the Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health, and president of the International Pediatric Association. All positions are voluntary and nonremunerated. RFG, ZAB, and PB are members of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine.

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