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Science 17 October 2003:
Vol. 302. no. 5644, pp. 398 - 399
DOI: 10.1126/science.1091769
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
Enhanced: Grand Challenges in Global Health

H. Varmus, R. Klausner, E. Zerhouni, T. Acharya, A. S. Daar, P. A. Singer

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 & 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.

H. Varmus is the president and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA. R. Klausner is the executive director of the Global Health Program, BMGF, Seattle, WA 98102, USA. E. Zerhouni is the director of the NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. T. Acharya, A. S. Daar, and P. A. Singer are at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1L4. Copyright of this work is retained by the authors.

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