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Just-in-Time Public Health Training and Networking in Farsi-Speaking Countries: Influenza A (H1N1) Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Ali Ardalan*
Affiliation:
Health in Emergencies & Disasters Department, School of Public Health and Institute of Public Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Amir Ansari
Affiliation:
Office of the Minister, Ministry of Public Health, Afghanistan
Komil Daburov
Affiliation:
School of Sanitation and Hygiene Education, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Nasrin Rahimian
Affiliation:
Health in Emergencies & Disasters Department, School of Public Health and Institute of Public Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Mehrdad Mohajeri
Affiliation:
Health in Emergencies & Disasters Department, School of Public Health and Institute of Public Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Amir Ebrahimzadeh
Affiliation:
Health in Emergencies & Disasters Department, School of Public Health and Institute of Public Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Rashid A. Chotani
Affiliation:
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland USA
Ronald E. LaPorte
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
Faina Linkov
Affiliation:
School of Medicine, Univeristy of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
Mita Lovalekar
Affiliation:
School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
Eugene Shubnikov
Affiliation:
Institute of Internal Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia
*
Health in Emergencies and Disasters DepartmentNational Institute of Health ResearchTehran University of Medical SciencesNo 78, Italia Ave, Tehran, Iran E-mail: aardalan@gmail.com or aardalan@tums.ac.ir
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Abstract

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Type
Letter to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2009

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