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Review
. 2019 Dec;9(2):020304.
doi: 10.7189/jogh.09.020304.

Building capacity for cancer surveillance and public health research: The Cancer Task Force Project for Cooperation in the Caribbean and Aging Research

Clarisse Joachim  1 , Jacqueline Veronique-Baudin  1 , Vincent Vinh-Hung  2 , Cédric Contaret  3 , Jonathan Macni  1 , Lidvine Godaert  4 , Patrick Escarmant  2 , Karim Farid  5 , Jean-Luc Novella  6   7 , Moustapha Drame  6   8 , Guillermo Tortolero-Luna  9   10 , Priscila Torres Babie  11 , Diego E Zavala  9   10 , Yaima Galan Alvarez  12
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Review

Building capacity for cancer surveillance and public health research: The Cancer Task Force Project for Cooperation in the Caribbean and Aging Research

Clarisse Joachim et al. J Glob Health. 2019 Dec.
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Competing interests: The authors completed the Unified Competing Interest form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available on request from the corresponding author), and declare no competing interests.

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Photo: Building bridges between countries, a key success factor for the understanding of the elderly populations of the Caribbean (from the collection of Clarisse Joachim, used with permission).
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Strategic plan of the Cancer Task Force Project for the Caribbean and Aging Research.
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