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“Commentary: In Search of Innovative Approaches to International Health,” American Journal of Public Health , Sidney and Emily Kark and J.H. Abramson, November 1993

Drs. Sidney and Emily Kark founded the Pholela Health Center on a Zulu tribal reserve in Natal, South Africa in 1942. Fifty years later in the American Journal of Public Health, the Karks and their colleague Dr. Abramson described the Pholela clinic’s impact on primary health care around the world.