Challenges for the female academic during the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Electronic address: bgabster@stanford.edu.
² Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK. Electronic address: krv22@cam.ac.uk.
³ Women in Global Health, Washington, DC, USA.
⁴ Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

Comment

Brooke Peterson Gabster et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 Jun 27;395(10242):1968-1970.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31412-4. Epub 2020 Jun 18.

¹ Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Electronic address: bgabster@stanford.edu.
² Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK. Electronic address: krv22@cam.ac.uk.
³ Women in Global Health, Washington, DC, USA.
⁴ Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

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