India and the US on Thursday signed a series of agreements on health, seeking to enhance cooperation in areas such as cancer research, infrastructure development, training, capacity building and better assessment and application of new diagnostic technologies.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cancer Research and a Letter of Intent on <g data-gr-id="22">Anti-microbial</g> Resistance Research were signed by Secretary Health, B P Sharma, Secretary Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, K Vijay Raghavan, and US Ambassador to India Richard Verma, according to senior official of the Health and Family Welfare Ministry.
The agreement on cancer research, prevention, control and management was signed among the NCRI (AIIMS), ICMR (DHS), the Department of Biotechnology, (MoST), NCI (NIH) and the US’ Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the official said.
Sharma and Verma also signed <g data-gr-id="14">an MoU</g> on collaboration in environmental and occupational health and injury prevention and control.
The official said the collaboration will be in the areas for conducting research and training on <g data-gr-id="16">development</g> of low-cost technologies, diagnostics of existing medications against common cancers and development of existing therapies related to oncology.
“The MoU will focus on cancer research, projects on population-based cancer control and implementation science, projects in epidemiological research, pre-clinical model development, clinical research, oncology care delivery, E-health and <g data-gr-id="19">M-health</g>,” the official said.