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Wellcome chief praises G20 global-health promises

Image: Wellcome Trust [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Plans by G20 leaders to prioritise infectious disease outbreaks, the effects of climate change on health and drug-resistant infections have been welcomed by Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust.

Farrar said that all these areas had been on Wellcome’s list of priorities for some time, in a blog post published on 10 July.

These continuing and widespread issues are “now getting paid the attention they deserve” after sustained campaigning from the Wellcome Trust, he said.

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