Uncertainties about the quality of medical products globally: lessons from multidisciplinary research

Affiliations

¹ Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities. Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, UK.
² Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
³ School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁴ Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium rravinetto@itg.be.
⁵ School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.

Editorial

Patricia Kingori et al. BMJ Glob Health. 2023 Jun.

. 2023 Jun;6(Suppl 3):e012902.

doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012902.

¹ Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities. Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, UK.
² Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
³ School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁴ Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium rravinetto@itg.be.
⁵ School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.

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Keywords: Public Health.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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