Stronger together: a new pandemic agenda for South Asia

Affiliations

¹ Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
² Meta-research & Evidence Synthesis Unit, The George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India.
³ School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada veena.sriram@ubc.ca.
⁴ Child Health Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁵ Health Systems Program, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁶ School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁷ Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.

^# Contributed equally.

Editorial

Shashika Bandara et al. BMJ Glob Health. 2021 Aug.

. 2021 Aug;6(8):e006776.

doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006776.

¹ Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
² Meta-research & Evidence Synthesis Unit, The George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India.
³ School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada veena.sriram@ubc.ca.
⁴ Child Health Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁵ Health Systems Program, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁶ School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁷ Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; health policy.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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