Closing the global gender gap

Education is the key to not only better health outcomes but also less global conflict

1 Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2 The Daughters for Life Foundation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Correspondence: Izzeldin.abuelaish@utoronto.ca

Competing interests:

No relevant disclosures.

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