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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has granted $8.4 million to a group of University of Manitoba researchers to improve the health of mothers and newborns in India.

The money is being channeled through the university's newly created Centre for Global Public Health, headed by Dr. Jamie Blanchard.

Blanchard will lead a team seeking to improve maternal, neonatal and child health care and health care delivery in the state of Karnataka in South India, which has a population of 15 million.

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