Context-led capacity building in time of crisis: fostering non-communicable diseases (NCD) research skills in the Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa

• Main Authors: Peter Phillimore (Author), Abla M. Sibai (Author), Anthony Rizk (Author), Wasim Maziak (Author), Belgin Unal (Author), Niveen Abu Rmeileh (Author), Habiba Ben Romdhane (Author), Fouad M. Fouad (Author), Yousef Khader (Author), Kathleen Bennett (Author), Shahaduz Zaman (Author), Awad Mataria (Author), Rula Ghandour (Author), Bülent Kılıç (Author), Nadia Ben Mansour (Author), Ibtihal Fadhil (Author), Martin O'Flaherty (Author), Simon Capewell (Author), Julia A. Critchley (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: This paper examines one EC-funded multinational project (RESCAP-MED), with a focus on research capacity building (RCB) concerning non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa. By the project's end (2015), the entire region was engulfed in crisis...