Canada's menu of choices to improve global drug access

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• Jillian Clare Köhler is an Assistant Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto. She is the lead researcher of the Initiative for Drug Equity and Access. The author thanks the Canadian Institute for Health Research and the Ford Foundation for funding for this paper. Thanks to Andrea Perez Cosio and Jonathan Chui for research help on this paper. The author is particularly grateful for the comments and suggestions from three anonymous reviewers.
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