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Edited by William H. Foege, Nils Daulaire, Robert E. Black, and Clarence E. Pearson. 241 pp. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2005. $47. ISBN 0-7879-7153-7.

It is a welcome breath of fresh air to read William H. Foege's preface to Global Health Leadership and Management. He zeroes in on the looming crisis in global public health with a tiger's instinct for the jugular vein.

Bridging the huge gap between the knowledge of medical science and the delivery of public health is the focus of this book. From the standpoint of global public health, medical science that goes undelivered is the same as no medical science at all. To Foege, the effective and sustainable delivery of medical science is critical to achieving better world health. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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