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Conference at Columbia University



On 11 March 2013, experts from the Novartis Foundation, the Ifakara Health Institute and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute gathered at Columbia University's Earth Institute in New York to discuss challenges and advances in the field of access to healthcare.

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