The CTSA program's role in improving rural public health: Community-engaged disease prevention and health care innovation

Affiliations

¹ Division of Clinical Innovation, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
² Office of the Director, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Editorial

Xinzhi Zhang et al. J Clin Transl Sci. 2020.

. 2020 Sep 11;4(5):373-376.

doi: 10.1017/cts.2020.541.

¹ Division of Clinical Innovation, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
² Office of the Director, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

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