UnitedHealth and NHLBI Collaborating Centers of Excellence
To help combat chronic diseases in developing countries, the UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative and the NHLBI support a global network of Collaborating Centers of Excellence. Each center includes a research institution in a developing country paired with at least one partner academic institution in a developed country. These Centers of Excellence are developing infrastructures for research and training to enhance their capacity to conduct population-based or clinical research to monitor, prevent, or control chronic diseases, with a focus on cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases.
The Collaborating Centers of Excellence and their Developed Country Partners are:
- Argentina: South American Center for Cardiovascular Health (SACECH), Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS), Buenos Aires
Partner: Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Bangladesh: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka
Partner: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA - China: The George Institute, Beijing
Partner: Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, North Carolina, USA - Guatemala: Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala City
Partners: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA - India (Bangalore): St. John’s Research Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka
Partner: Population Health Research Institute (PHRI), Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - India (New Delhi): Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi
Partner: Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Kenya: Moi University, School of Medicine, Eldoret
Partner: Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA - Peru: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima
Partner: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA - South Africa: University of Cape Town, Cape Town
Partner: Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Tunisia: University Hospital Farhat Hached, Sousse
Partner: Department of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, National Public Health Institute of Helsinki, KTL, Finland
Administrative Coordinating Center
Westat
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Principal Investigator: Nancy L. Dianis, R.N., M.S.
Nancydianis@westat.com
Last Updated: August 27, 2012