How Community-Based Medical Schools Advance Universal Health Coverage
Innovative medical schools in Asia and the Pacific are redefining how doctors are trained and helping expand the number of people who have access to health care.
Gideon Lasco is a medical anthropologist and health systems researcher whose scholarship has focused on contemporary health crises and the politics of health. The author of four books and over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, he is currently Professorial Lecturer at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Research Fellow at Ateneo de Manila University, and Takemi Fellow for International Health at Harvard School of Public Health. A physician by training, he holds advanced social science degrees from the University of the Philippines Diliman (MSc), University of Amsterdam (PhD), and Harvard University (AM).
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Innovative medical schools in Asia and the Pacific are redefining how doctors are trained and helping expand the number of people who have access to health care.
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