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RI, US step up health cooperation
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Wed, 09/16/2009 11:37 AM | National
Indonesia and the United States have agreed to step up their overall partnership in health cooperation, Antara news agency has reported.
The agreement, marked with the establishment of a biomedical research and public health center, was reached at a meeting of Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari with her US counterpart Kathleen Sebelius in Washington on Tuesday.
Following the agreement, the health ministries of the two countries planned to improve health-care cooperation under the overall partnership.
To follow up on the partnership, governments of both countries would hold annual bilateral meetings with top officials and regular ministerial meetings.
It is expected that the governments of Indonesia and the United States will step up and expand their biomedical research in the interest of public health.
Tuesday's meeting between Siti Fadilah Supari and her US counterpart Kathleen Sebelius in Washington, was regarded as the first step toward cooperation between the two countries' health ministries, helping both to develop scientific exchanges, technology transfer, human resources development, and public health research on global diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, and influenza.
As a first step toward that end, governments of both countries also agreed to set up a new institution which they call "Indonesia-United States Center for Biomedical and Public Health Research."
The partnership will cover development of scientific exchanges, new researches on public health clinics, and training programs.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/09/16/ri-us-step-health-cooperation.html
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Wed, 09/16/2009 11:37 AM | National
Indonesia and the United States have agreed to step up their overall partnership in health cooperation, Antara news agency has reported.
The agreement, marked with the establishment of a biomedical research and public health center, was reached at a meeting of Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari with her US counterpart Kathleen Sebelius in Washington on Tuesday.
Following the agreement, the health ministries of the two countries planned to improve health-care cooperation under the overall partnership.
To follow up on the partnership, governments of both countries would hold annual bilateral meetings with top officials and regular ministerial meetings.
It is expected that the governments of Indonesia and the United States will step up and expand their biomedical research in the interest of public health.
Tuesday's meeting between Siti Fadilah Supari and her US counterpart Kathleen Sebelius in Washington, was regarded as the first step toward cooperation between the two countries' health ministries, helping both to develop scientific exchanges, technology transfer, human resources development, and public health research on global diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, and influenza.
As a first step toward that end, governments of both countries also agreed to set up a new institution which they call "Indonesia-United States Center for Biomedical and Public Health Research."
The partnership will cover development of scientific exchanges, new researches on public health clinics, and training programs.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/09/16/ri-us-step-health-cooperation.html