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RI, US AGREE TO SET UP BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER
Jakarta, Sept 16 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian and US governments have agreed to cooperate and set up an Indonesia-United States Center for Biomedical and Public Health Research.
The memorandum of understanding for the cooperation was signed by Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadila Supari and secretary of the US Health Department and Humanitarian Service Kathleen Sebelius in Washington D.C. on Tuesday September 15, the Indonesian ministry of health said in a press statement received here on Wednesday.
In their joint statement Minister Siti Fadilah and Sebelius said the new research center would be managed by civilian scientists from the two countries.
They said the cooperation would still be focussed on research and basic clinical training and public health programs.
Siti Fadilah and Sebelius hoped for an improvement and asset extension in biomedical research and public health between the two countries and at a regional level involving civilian scientists of the two countries.
The cooperation opens a new history in the cooperation in the health field between the two countries, which was earlier done by the health ministry and the US Navy.
The new partnership is expected "to bring a benefit and to last long putting forward the principles of mutual-respect and transparency."
The collaboration in research between the two countries is also expected to be able to improve scientific exchange, technology transfer, human resource development, research and public health research on diseases that have become the world's main priority.
The two countries plans to hold a senior government official meeting annually and periodic ministerial-level consultations to follow up the agreement, it said.
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The memorandum of understanding for the cooperation was signed by Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadila Supari and secretary of the US Health Department and Humanitarian Service Kathleen Sebelius in Washington D.C. on Tuesday September 15, the Indonesian ministry of health said in a press statement received here on Wednesday.
In their joint statement Minister Siti Fadilah and Sebelius said the new research center would be managed by civilian scientists from the two countries.
They said the cooperation would still be focussed on research and basic clinical training and public health programs.
Siti Fadilah and Sebelius hoped for an improvement and asset extension in biomedical research and public health between the two countries and at a regional level involving civilian scientists of the two countries.
The cooperation opens a new history in the cooperation in the health field between the two countries, which was earlier done by the health ministry and the US Navy.
The new partnership is expected "to bring a benefit and to last long putting forward the principles of mutual-respect and transparency."
The collaboration in research between the two countries is also expected to be able to improve scientific exchange, technology transfer, human resource development, research and public health research on diseases that have become the world's main priority.
The two countries plans to hold a senior government official meeting annually and periodic ministerial-level consultations to follow up the agreement, it said.
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