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U.S. launches special research programme

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI Nov. 6. The U.S. has launched a special international research programme to understand linkages between health, environment and economics.

The programme would specifically focus on the developing countries.

According to the U.S. embassy here, the main aim of the programme is to understand how economic development and the resultant environmental changes impact on the health of individuals and communities.

The goal is to expand the scientific evidence necessary to inform the U.S. and international policy makers in the formulation of environmental and development strategy.

In this regard, it will support collaborative research involving scientists in both the developed and developing world and covering a wide range of disciplines from demographers, epidemiologists, environmental scientists and development and health economists.

The programme has been jointly launched by five institutions under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's National Institutes of health (NIH) and the U.S. Geological Survey.

The five NIH institutions are: the John E. Fogarty International Centre for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the Office of Behavioural and Social Sciences Research.

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