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2 articles from National Academy of Medicine

Forum Institutional

Is there a regional solution to vaccine inequity?

Regionally-based vaccine manufacturing networks can provide the scale and agility needed to combat vaccine inequity that germinated out of the pandemic.

Victor Dzau, Richard Hatchett, John-Arne Røttingen, Stavros Nicolaou, and Lora du Moulin 17 Jan 2023

Health and Healthcare Systems

How to make later life happy, healthy and meaningful

Nowadays, it is no longer a fantasy that we can live longer. Life expectancy has nearly doubled in the past 100 years, but ageing is still often viewed as a societal burden.

Victor Dzau and Celynne Balatbat 20 Jan 2020

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