The UK's Global Health Respiratory Network: Improving respiratory health of the world's poorest through research collaborations

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¹ Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
² On behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Respiratory Health (RESPIRE).
³ University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁴ On behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Global COPD in Primary Care (Breathe Well).
⁵ On behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Social Policy and Health Inequalities.
⁶ On behalf of the GCRF funded Tobacco Control Capacity Programme (TCCP).
⁷ St George's University of London, London, UK.
⁸ On behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Asthma Attacks Causes and Prevention Study in Urban Latin America (ATTACK).
⁹ Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
¹⁰ School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
¹¹ CIDACS, Salvador, Brazil.
¹² International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG).
¹³ Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
¹⁴ University College London, London, UK.
¹⁵ MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
¹⁶ Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
¹⁷ University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
¹⁸ Department of Health Sciences, The University of York, York, UK.
¹⁹ On behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Group to Address Smokeless Tobacco and build Research capacity in South Asia (ASTRA).
²⁰ On behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Mucosal Pathogens (MPRU).
²¹ On behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Lung Health and TB in Africa (IMPALA).
²² On behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Achieving Control of Asthma in Children In Africa (ACACIA).
²³ On behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Respiratory Rehabilitation (Global RECHARGE).
²⁴ Coordinators of the Global Health Research Network (GHRN).

PMID: 31893026
PMCID: PMC6927736
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.09.020104

Editorial

The UK's Global Health Respiratory Network: Improving respiratory health of the world's poorest through research collaborations

Aziz Sheikh et al. J Glob Health. 2019 Dec.

. 2019 Dec;9(2):020104.

doi: 10.7189/jogh.09.020104.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
² On behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Respiratory Health (RESPIRE).
³ University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁴ On behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Global COPD in Primary Care (Breathe Well).
⁵ On behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Social Policy and Health Inequalities.
⁶ On behalf of the GCRF funded Tobacco Control Capacity Programme (TCCP).
⁷ St George's University of London, London, UK.
⁸ On behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Asthma Attacks Causes and Prevention Study in Urban Latin America (ATTACK).
⁹ Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
¹⁰ School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
¹¹ CIDACS, Salvador, Brazil.
¹² International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG).
¹³ Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
¹⁴ University College London, London, UK.
¹⁵ MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
¹⁶ Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
¹⁷ University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
¹⁸ Department of Health Sciences, The University of York, York, UK.
¹⁹ On behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Group to Address Smokeless Tobacco and build Research capacity in South Asia (ASTRA).
²⁰ On behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Mucosal Pathogens (MPRU).
²¹ On behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Lung Health and TB in Africa (IMPALA).
²² On behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Achieving Control of Asthma in Children In Africa (ACACIA).
²³ On behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Respiratory Rehabilitation (Global RECHARGE).
²⁴ Coordinators of the Global Health Research Network (GHRN).

PMID: 31893026
PMCID: PMC6927736
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.09.020104

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Competing interests: The authors completed the Unified Competing Interest form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available upon request from the corresponding author), and declare no conflicts of interest.

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Members of the GHRN at the inaugural meeting in Edinburgh, 2018.

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