title: Public health. Grand Challenges in Global Health.
abstract: This week an international panel announces a list of 14 Grand Challenges in Global Health, and scientists throughout the world will be invited to submit grant proposals to pursue them with funds provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. We describe the characteristics of these challenges and the process by which they were formulated and selected after receiving over 1000 responses to a "call for ideas" from the scientific community.
authors.affiliation: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Varmus
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Klausner
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Zerhouni
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Acharya
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Daar
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Singer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000635:transmission; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D005582:Foundations; D014943:Global Health; D006291:Health Policy; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007300:Insect Control; D007303:Insect Vectors; D007391:International Cooperation; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D011634:Public Health; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D014481:United States; D014612:Vaccines
chemical_list: D014612:Vaccines