Improving Estimates of the Global Burden of Injuries:

Call for Contributors

Kavi Bhalla^*, James Harrison, Jerry Abraham, Nagesh N. Borse, Ronan Lyons, Soufiane Boufous, Limor Aharonson-Daniel, on behalf of the Global Burden of Disease Injury Expert Group

Funding: None of the members of the Global Burden of Disease Injury Expert Group derive any salary support from the Global Burden of Disease project. However, several members have ongoing funded research in closely associated areas. KB is supported by a grant from the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility, but this funder has played no role in study design, data analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Citation: Bhalla K, Harrison J, Abraham J, Borse NN, Lyons R, et al. (2009) Data Sources for Improving Estimates of the Global Burden of Injuries: Call for Contributors. PLoS Med 6(1): e1000001 doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000001

Published: January 20, 2009

Copyright: © 2009 Bhalla et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.