US announces USD 122 mn funding to top three Indian medical research institutions
The United States has announced a funding of USD 122 million to three Indian medical research institutions for preventing avoidable epidemics.
The United States has announced a funding of USD 122 million to the top three Indian medical research institutions to prevent avoidable epidemics, early detection of disease threats, and rapid and effective response.
The total funding of USD 122,475,000 will be distributed to the three top Indian health research institutions — Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), National Institute of Virology (NIV) and National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE) and will be provided to these institutions over a period of five years.
"The fund will accelerate the progress towards an India which is safe and secure from infectious disease threats through ICMR institutions’ focus on emerging and re-emerging pathogens," said Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as reported by The Print.
Key areas to focus
The main areas in which these institutes will focus are evaluating vaccine safety monitoring systems; detecting and controlling zoonotic disease outbreaks through a ‘one health’ approach; capacitating the public health workforce in field epidemiology and outbreak response, and combating antimicrobial resistance, said a media release.
"ICMR is in a unique position to conduct this work, as it was originally established as an apex body for the formulation, coordination and promotion of biomedical research in India, and has taken up most of the laboratory-based surveillance of infectious diseases in recent years.
ICMR is the apex governing body for numerous national level institutes which are centres for excellence and reference in the specific scientific area for India, namely National Institute of Virology, National Institute of Epidemiology, and several others," said CDC.
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