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November 2004, Vol 94, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1849-1850
© 2004 American Public Health Association

EDITORIAL

Environment and Health: Capacity Building for the Future

Mary E. Northridge, PhD, MPH, Siaka Sidibe, MD and Thomas J. Goehl, PhD

Mary E. Northridge is editor-in-chief of the Journal. Siaka Sidibe is editor-in-chief of Mali Medical. Thomas J. Goehl is editor-in-chief of Environmental Health Perspectives.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Mary E. Northridge, PhD, MPH, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 W 168th St, Room 1123.6, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: men11@columbia.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

In October 2002, the World Health Organization (WHO) sponsored a workshop in Geneva, Switzerland, to address the problems faced by medical journals in the developing world regarding their efforts to provide critical, timely health information to local health practitioners and research scientists. Of major concern is the unavailability of the results of medical research from developing nations, which is published in international journals, to those who are living and working in developing nations. If scientific knowledge is to be used to improve public health and the environment, then it must be accessible to the local health professionals who need it . . . [Full Text]






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