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Sabin's experiences provide a window into both the formation of the coalition that eliminated poliomyelitis from the Western Hemisphere and what can happen when biomedical researchers become public health policy advisers. Although the polio elimination coalition succeeded in part because member groups often accommodated each other's priorities, Sabin was often limited by his indifference to the interests of those he was advising and to the shortcomings of his vaccine. <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.2105\/ajph.2007.117952","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,11,14]],"date-time":"2008-11-14T02:40:19Z","timestamp":1226630419000},"page":"34-44","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Albert Sabin and the Coalition to Eliminate Polio From the Americas"],"prefix":"10.2105","volume":"99","author":[{"given":"Lee","family":"Hampton","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Lee Hampton is with the Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT."}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"844","reference":[{"key":"bib2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"David M. 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