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Acknowledgements

We sincerely thank all who attended the Politics of Disease Surveillance workshop in July 2011. We appreciate Dr Stephen James' enthusiasm and patience with our project. We acknowledge and thank the Griffith Asia Institute and the Griffith Centre for Governance and Public Policy for their generous support of the workshop.

Notes

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