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UnitedHealth and NHLBI Collaborating Centers of Excellence

Each of the 11 Centers of Excellence collaborates with research institutions in developed countries to build research and training infrastructures and to conduct research to improve the prevention and management of chronic cardiovascular and lung diseases in their country.

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
• Mexico: Center for Health Promotion of Northern Mexico, Hermosillo
  Partner: University of Arizona Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Tucson, Arizona
• 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: February 19, 2013