Published 15 June 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2421
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b2421
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Agencies collaborate to tackle world’s biggest killers
Adrian O’Dowd
1 Margate
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Six of the world’s leading health agencies have formed a groundbreaking alliance in an attempt to tackle diseases such as cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and type 2 diabetes.
The newly formed Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases is a collaboration between the United Kingdom’s Medical Research Council; Australia’s National Health Medical Research Council; the Canadian Institutes of Health Research; China’s Ministry of Health in association with the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; and the US National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the Fogarty International Center.
The sixth organisation that will be invited to join the alliance is the Indian Council of Medical Research; other agencies and private funders might be invited to join in a second wave of recruitment for the alliance.
Collectively, the six agencies manage an estimated 80% of all public health research funding.
The alliance wants to set common priorities to reduce the impact
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