Research priorities for the secondary prevention and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute workshop report

• Nona Sotoodehnia,
• Emmy Okello,
• Andrea Beaton,
• Ganesan Karthikeyan,
• Gene Bukhman,
• Rosemary Wyber,
• David Watkins,
• Anna Ralph,
• Ana Mocumbi,
• George A Mensah,
• Madeleine W Cunningham,
• Mary Masterson,
• John Haller,
• Babu Muhamed,
• Tafadzwa Machipisa

Affiliations

Nona Sotoodehnia

Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

Emmy Okello

4 Department of Adult Cardiology, Uganda Heart Institute Ltd, Kampala, Uganda

Andrea Beaton

Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Ganesan Karthikeyan

4 Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Gene Bukhman

Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women`s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Rosemary Wyber

END RHD Program, Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

David Watkins

Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

Anna Ralph

Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Ana Mocumbi

Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique

George A Mensah

National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Madeleine W Cunningham

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Mary Masterson

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

John Haller

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Babu Muhamed

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Tafadzwa Machipisa

Cape Heart Institute (CHI), Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa