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RESEARCH 
ID: BLT.25.294978 
Governance of artificial intelligence for health system, WHO European Region
-  Keyrellous Adib, Nicholas Letchford, Hanna Emilia Dunning, Nagui Salama, Yiannos Tolias, Jerome De Barros, Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Hans Henri P Kluge & David Novillo-Ortiz

ID: BLT.25.293829 
Maternal and neonatal outcomes in a cohort of pregnant women during conflict, Gaza Strip
-  Zeina Jamaluddine, Reham Jaffal, Sanaa Al Najjar,b Mahmoud Al Kahlout, Tamam Abu Zeid, Hala Mughari, Ghada Al Jadba, Rami Habash, Bassam A Abu Hamad, Akihiro Seita & Oona Maeve Renee Campbell

ID: BLT.25.294361 
Cost of adapting the International Guide for Monitoring Child Development, Guatemala and India
-  Scott Tschida, Anuj Mundra, Revan Mustafa, Amruta Bandal, Magdalena Guarchaj, Karyn Choy, Priyamvada Das, Sara Hernandez, Ashwini Kalantri, Abhishek V Raut, Anushree Sane, Roopa Srinivasan, Vibha Krishnamurthy, Ilgi Ertem, Subodh S Gupta, Peter Rohloff & Chunling Lu

ID: BLT.25.294847
Diplomatic roles of regional coordinators for WHO Member States
-  Nikica Daraboš, Monica Stanovic & Danira Matijaca

POLICY & PRACTICE   
ID: BLT.25.293259
Geographic priorities in the global action plan for wasting: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and Malawi
-  Adriana Newman, Indi Trehan, Masresha Tessema, Kenneth M Maleta, Hama A Diallo, Moses Ngari, Daniel Muhinja & Kirkby D Tickell

ID: BLT.25.294599
Policy analysis and expert consultation on cross-border telehealth services
-  Caroline Perrin Franck, Salim Azzabi, Joscelyn Magdeleine, Pierre Sauvé, Derrick Muneene & Alain Labrique

ID: BLT.25.294093
Application of tobacco control experience to alcohol consumption
-  Prashant Kumar Singh, Chandan Kumar & Shalini Singh

ID: BLT.25.293246
An umbrella protocol for the clinical evaluation of diagnostics in infectious disease
-  Edward Blandford, Sarah Tunkel, Elizabeth Coates, Carolina R Arevalo, Simon E Kolstoe, Obaghe Edeghere, Fiona Maleady-Crowe, David Chapman, Carolyn Lewis, Raghavendran Kulasegaran-Shylini, Richard Vipond, Deborah A Williamson, Richard Pebody, Isabel Oliver, Susan Hopkins, Sue Hill & Tom Fowler

ID: BLT.25.293951
Systemic path to global health 2050
-  Joachim Sturmberg, Maru Mormina, Holger Pfaff, Federica Russo, Mathew Mercuri, Rika Preiser, Valéry Ridde, Peter Delobelle, Garrett Wallace Brown, Fareed Abdullah, Eivind Engebretsen, Kurt C Stange, David Bell, Carmel M Martin, Chris Burman, Felix Tretter & Elisabeth Paul

SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS   
ID: BLT.25.294408
Interventions to reduce antimicrobial use in livestock: a systematic review and evidence map
-  Fiona Emdin, Kayla Strong, Jaskeerat Singh, Daniela Corno, Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, Heather Ganshorn, Arne Ruckert, Jeremy M Grimshaw & Mathieu Poirier

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD 
ID: BLT.25.293592 
Evaluation of an application for investments in cataract surgery, Ethiopia
-  Dominque Geoffrion, Noelle Whitestone, Jennifer L Patnaik, Samson Tesfaye, Dawit Seyum, Nigusie Fetene, Enock Nsokolo, Lucia Nadaf, Ruth Nswana, Alemayehu Sisay, David H Cherwek, Serge Resnikoff, Phylis Moonga, Jonathan Ncheengamwa & Nathan Congdon

ID: BLT.25.294930 
Solar power for maternal and neonatal care after the Jajarkot earthquake, Nepal
-  Samriddha Rana, Rabin Khadka, Bhoj Raj Bam, Prahlad Dahal, Saugat Pratap KC & Allison Gocotano

PERSPECTIVES   
ID: BLT.25.294114 
Towards elimination of Chagas disease
-  Debbie Vermeij, Carlos M Morel, Claudia Chamas, Luiz V P Mendes & Andrea Silvestre-Sousa

ID: BLT.25.295448
Equitable provision of tuberculosis prevention and care for vulnerable populations
-  Kerri Viney, Farai Mavhunga, Annabel Baddeley, Avinash Kanchar & Tereza Kasaeva