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Article: Altarum Awarded Grant from the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund to Research Palliative Care in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 18, 2009
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The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund has awarded Ann Arbor-based Altarum Institute a [pounds sterling]50,000 grant for its work to advance decent care values in palliative care work in sub-Saharan Africa. This award marks the start of a partnership to understand and document an emerging philosophy for improving global health (see also Altarum Institute).
"As we work to reform and improve the delivery of care in health systems around the world, we need to learn all that we can about what models work and how they make care more accessible, affordable, and equitable," said Holly Korda, Ph.D., the research director for innovative care delivery at Altarum ...