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. 2019 Sep 16:366:l4143.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.l4143.

Building alliances for the global governance of migration and health

Jo Vearey  1   2 , Miriam Orcutt  3 , Larry Gostin  4   5 , Christy Adeola Braham  6   7 , Patrick Duigan  8
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Building alliances for the global governance of migration and health

Jo Vearey et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Health governance has an important role in dealing with global migration, argue Jo Vearey and colleagues

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Conflict of interest statement

Contributors and sources: JV established the Migration and Health Project Southern Africa (maHp) and is vice-chair of the global Migration Health and Development Research Initiative (MHADRI) and director of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Centre of Excellence on Migration and Mobility hosted at the ACMS, Wits University. MO coordinates the UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health and previously worked for Médecins sans Frontières and the World Health Organization. LG directs the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Global Health Law, where he has worked closely with WHO on global health. CAB is a doctoral student who has spent several years studying and researching the health needs of migrants, and has a broad interest in access to healthcare for marginalised groups across Africa and Europe. PD has been working in migration health for over 12 years in multiple settings across Asia as well as the Americas, with a particular interest in public health response to large scale population displacement. JV conceptualised the paper and wrote the first draft. JV, MO, LG, PD, and CAB reviewed and contributed to the article. JV revised the manuscript based on helpful comments from three reviewers. All authors approved the final manuscript. Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no relevant interests to declare.

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