Sentences with phrase «international health funding»

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A big part of Canada's international or relative competitiveness with the U.S. is having a relatively robust and universal publicly funded health care system.

But there was widespread agreement among the working group's on - the - ground experts — including Panjabi; Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, the former Nigerian finance minister who now chairs Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; Helle Thorning - Schmidt, CEO of Save the Children International; and Andrew Youn of the One Acre Fund — that only a more comprehensive health strategy would make any real dent in childhood mortality.

But with the disease still killing a child in Africa every few minutes, those eager to finish the job are worried that the presidency of the United States — a crucial funding source for international malaria control efforts — is now passing to a man whose commitment to global health projects is uncertain.

A series of events, being co-hosted by the World Bank and WHO on 13 - 14 April, as part of the World Bank Group - International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington DC, is bringing ministers of finance, development agencies, academic experts and practitioners together to discuss how to put mental health at the centre of the health and development agenda globally and in countries.

As of 12/31/14, Oracle represented 3.9 %, CVS Health 2.7 %, UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 2.6 %, TE Connectivity, Ltd. 2.5 %, MasterCard 2.2 %, National Oilwell Varco 2.1 %, Ultra Petroleum 0.4 %, Dover Corp. 2.7 %, Glencore PLC 1.2 %, Baker Hughes, Inc. 1.2 %, General Motors Co. 3.2 %, Diageo ADR 2.3 %, General Dynamics Corp. 0 %, Union Pacific Corp. 2.1 %, Rowan Companies plc 0.1 %, Flowserve 0.2 %, WESCO International 0.4 %, Southern Copper 0.1 %, Laboratory Corporation of America 0 %, Varian Medical Systems 0 %, and HNI 0 % of the Oakmark Equity and Income Fund's total net assets.

The securities mentioned above comprise the following percentages of the Oakmark Equity and Income Fund's total net assets as of 03/31/18: MasterCard, Inc., Class A 2.8 %, TE Connectivity, Ltd. 4.1 %, Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. 0.6 %, Bank of America Corp. 4.8 %, HCA Healthcare, Inc. 1.3 %, General Motors Co. 4.7 %, CVS Health Corp. 1.9 %, Nestlé ADR 2.8 %, Citigroup Inc. 2.2 %, Arconic, Inc. 1.1 %, UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 2.4 %, Baker Hughes a GE Co. 0.5 %, Philip Morris International, Inc. 2.0 %, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. 0.5 %, Carlisle Companies, Inc. 0.2 %, Comcast Corp., Class A 1.0 %, CoreLogic, Inc. 0.4 %, Liberty Broadband Corp., Class C 0.4 %, Liberty Broadband Corp..

As of 06/30/15, Bank of America Corp. represented 3.8 %, Omnicare, Inc. 1.3 %, MasterCard, Inc., Class A 2.0 %, Philip Morris International, Inc. 1.5 %, Foot Locker, Inc. 2.4 %, General Motors Co. 3.2 %, TE Connectivity, Ltd. 2.6 %, Oracle Corp. 3.6 %, Union Pacific Corp. 1.5 %, Flowserve Corp. 1.7 %, UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 1.8 %, Lear Corp. 1.5 %, CVS Health Corp. 2.8 %, National Oilwell Varco 1.6 %, Glencore PLC 1.2 %, Dover Corp. 2.7 %, Ultra Petroleum Corp. 0.4 %, Knowles Corp. 0.3 %, General Electric Co. 1.0 %, Kate Spade New York 0.2 %, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. 0 %, FNF Ventures 0 %, and Lonmin PLC 0 % of the Oakmark Equity and Income Fund's total net assets.

As we covered this spring (WILTW May 25, 2017), the International Monetary Fund's annual Global Financial Stability report included a stark warning about the health of the U.S. economy: 22 % of U.S. corporations are at risk of default if interest rates rise.

In just over three years, OurCrowd has established itself as a major international force in the equity crowdfunding industry, investing over US$ 320 million from its «crowd» of 16,000 accredited investors in its portfolio of 100 companies and five funds, which span major investment sectors including Mobility and Transportation, Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Digital Health, Agtech, Big Data, and Robotics.

The securities mentioned above comprise the following percentages of the Oakmark Equity and Income Fund's total net assets as of 12/31/17: Bank of America Corp. 5.3 %, TE Connectivity, Ltd. 3.9 %, UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 2.6 %, Ally Financial, Inc. 1.8 %, Dover Corp. 2.6 %, CVS Health Corp. 2.2 %, Baker Hughes a GE Co. 1.2 %, General Electric Co. 0 %, Philip Morris International, Inc. 2.0 %, Oracle Corp. 2.3 %, MasterCard, Inc., Class A 2.6 %, General Motors Co. 5.1 %, Foot Locker, Inc. 1.2 %, Flowserve 0 %, Johnson Controls International PLC 0.6 %, PDC Energy Inc. 0.4 %, TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. 0 %, Herman Miller, Inc. 0 %, Oshkosh Corp. 0 %, VWR Corp. 0 %, Blockchain 0 %, Long Blockchain 0 %, LongFin Corp 0 %, Riot Blockchain 0 %, Intercontinental Technology 0 %, Nodechain 0 %, The Crypto Company 0 % and New York Times Co. 0 %.

The holdings mentioned above comprise the following percentages of the Oakmark Equity and Income Fund's total net assets as of 09/30/16: Bank of America Corp. 3.8 %, General Motors Co. 4.2 %, Foot Locker, Inc. 2.7 %, TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. 2.0 %, Principal Financial Group, Inc. 1.9 %, CVS Health Corp. 2.7 %, Kate Spade & Co. 0.6 %, HSN, Inc. 0.4 %, Oracle Corp. 3.2 %, Carters, Inc. 0.4 %, Glencore PLC 0.6 %, Dover Corp. 2.8 %, UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 2.1 %, Union Pacific Corp. 1.6 %, BorgWarner, Inc. 1.6 %, Wells Fargo & Co. 0.9 %, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0 %, Philip Morris International, Inc. 1.9 %, Oceaneering International, Inc. 0 %, Facebook, Inc. 0 %, Amazon.com, Inc. 0 %, Netflix, Inc. 0 %, Alphabet, Inc. 0 %, HCA Holdings Inc. 0.6 % and MGM Resorts International 0.2 %.

The Gates Foundation has quickly become a major influence upon global health; the approximately US$ 800 million that the foundation gives every year for global health approaches the an - nual budget of the United Nations World Health Organization (193 nations) and is comparable to the funds given to fight infe - ctious di - sease by the United States Agency for International Develohealth; the approximately US$ 800 million that the foundation gives every year for global health approaches the an - nual budget of the United Nations World Health Organization (193 nations) and is comparable to the funds given to fight infe - ctious di - sease by the United States Agency for International Develohealth approaches the an - nual budget of the United Nations World Health Organization (193 nations) and is comparable to the funds given to fight infe - ctious di - sease by the United States Agency for International DeveloHealth Organization (193 nations) and is comparable to the funds given to fight infe - ctious di - sease by the United States Agency for International Development.

@Bob Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF, World Health Organization, Greenpeace, Kiva, Donors Choose, Union of Concerned Scientists, ACLU, Amnesty International, Oxfam, Population Connection, Mercy Corps, Electronic Frontiers Foundation, International Peace Insti / tute, Secular Humanist Aid and Relief Effort, Atheist Relief Fund, Secular Center USA, HIVOS, Earthward Inc.... etc etc..

Not so for some items under communications (e.g., funding for public television), domestic and social development (social security and health care proposals), and international justice and peace (Kyoto climate control, funding the UN).

There is the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations Development Program, the African Development Bank, the United Nations Conference and Trade and Development, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund, and, of course, the World Trade Organization.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

During a meeting in 1990, The World Health Organization (WHO) and The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) created the Innocenti Declaration, a formal statement about the protection, promotion, and support of breastfeeding.

She was one of the first health visitors to participate in the International Breastfeeding Course at the Institute of Child Health (self funded since employers could not find the resouhealth visitors to participate in the International Breastfeeding Course at the Institute of Child Health (self funded since employers could not find the resouHealth (self funded since employers could not find the resources).

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This page was adapted from the original web site of the Institute for Reproductive Health, a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the terms of Cooperative Agreement DPE -3061-A-00-1029-00.

This finding underscoring the need for a comprehensive approach is supportive of the approach called for by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund in the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding, and by the United States Agency for International Development in its breastfeeding policy.

WABA works with many organizations to coordinate World Breastfeeding Week, including United Nation's Children Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization (WHO), Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM), International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA), La Leche League International (LLLI), and Wellstart International.

Organizations worldwide are partnering, including the International Lactation Consultants Assocation (ILCA), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization (WHO), International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), La Leche League International (LLLI), The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM), Wellstart International, the Global Goals, and the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA).

His international public health and development career spans five decades, including more than 30 years with agencies of the United Nations system (International Labour Office, United Nations Children's Fund, and the World Health Organization where he was the liaison officer (1990 — 2004) for LLLI), and seven years working in Turkey, Camerointernational public health and development career spans five decades, including more than 30 years with agencies of the United Nations system (International Labour Office, United Nations Children's Fund, and the World Health Organization where he was the liaison officer (1990 — 2004) for LLLI), and seven years working in Turkey, Cameroon and health and development career spans five decades, including more than 30 years with agencies of the United Nations system (International Labour Office, United Nations Children's Fund, and the World Health Organization where he was the liaison officer (1990 — 2004) for LLLI), and seven years working in Turkey, CameroInternational Labour Office, United Nations Children's Fund, and the World Health Organization where he was the liaison officer (1990 — 2004) for LLLI), and seven years working in Turkey, Cameroon and Health Organization where he was the liaison officer (1990 — 2004) for LLLI), and seven years working in Turkey, Cameroon and Haiti.

The very process of breastfeeding brings a closeness and intimacy between mother and infant that enhances the bond between them.9 The World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA), and the professional societies of pediatricians, 10 obstetricians and family physicians and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) 11 all embrace breastfeeding exclusively for six months.

Keeping reproductive health on the agenda The MSI Partnership welcomes European and international initiatives, including the Global Fund, to address the world's three most prevalent communicable diseases: HIV / AIDS, TB and Malaria.

This is why the international community identified maternal health as one of the eight millennium development goals and why the European Union apportions development funding to maternal health each year.

They include Heads of Government, representatives of the European Union, EU, World Bank, World Health Organisation, WHO, International Monetary Fund, IMF, Academia, Media and Civil Defence and Natural Disaster Organisations.

An international development secretary delivering on 0.7 % pledge, a health secretary delivering on # 10bn extra funding for NHS, a chancellor who's making sure we have a stable economy...

In 1981, Bhutan joined the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, followed by the World Health Organization and UNESCO in 1982.

The Steering Group agreed the terms of reference for the review and, in consultation with the UK Human Geography community, appointed an International Panel of leading international experts, chaired by Professor David Ley, University of British Columbia, Canada The International Panel visited the UK for one week in May 2012 and met with about 150 stakeholders in UK Human Geography Prior to its UK visit, the Panel was provided with a range of background data including: Overviews of research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian International Panel of leading international experts, chaired by Professor David Ley, University of British Columbia, Canada The International Panel visited the UK for one week in May 2012 and met with about 150 stakeholders in UK Human Geography Prior to its UK visit, the Panel was provided with a range of background data including: Overviews of research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian international experts, chaired by Professor David Ley, University of British Columbia, Canada The International Panel visited the UK for one week in May 2012 and met with about 150 stakeholders in UK Human Geography Prior to its UK visit, the Panel was provided with a range of background data including: Overviews of research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian International Panel visited the UK for one week in May 2012 and met with about 150 stakeholders in UK Human Geography Prior to its UK visit, the Panel was provided with a range of background data including: Overviews of research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Mills (2012).

In one of his first acts as president, Trump has reinstated a federal ban on U.S. funding for international health organizations that counsel women on family planning options that include abortion.

Forward - thinking scientists, many with funding from PETA and its international affiliates, are developing methods for studying diseases and testing products that don't require the use of animals and are actually relevant to human health.

When her appointment came to a close, a colleague rolled his chair over to her one day and suggested her for a data scientist job with the Stanford - based Data Coordination Center of the ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) Consortium, an international collaboration of research groups funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

Dye, director of strategy in the Office of the Director General at the World Health Organization, said in his 12 February plenary address at the 2016 AAAS Annual Meeting that the Ebola crisis demonstrated where global teamwork succeeded and failed during the emergency — in an era where WHO's share of international public health funding has decHealth Organization, said in his 12 February plenary address at the 2016 AAAS Annual Meeting that the Ebola crisis demonstrated where global teamwork succeeded and failed during the emergency — in an era where WHO's share of international public health funding has dechealth funding has declined.

The authors note that while large, international, multi-lateral funds exist for global health delivery, there is no significant pooled funding mechanism for research and development to complement existing but limited R&D funding for a wide range of diseases.

The research was funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a Mazumdar - Shaw International Oncology Fellowship, the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the National Cancer Institute, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Dr. Matthew Giefer, director of gastrointestinal endoscopy at Seattle Children's Hospital, and colleagues analyzed 342 children ages 0 - 18 with acute recurrent pancreatitis (ARP) and chronic pancreatitis (CP) from INSPPIRE (International Study Group of Pediatric Pancreatitis: In search for a cure), the nation's first and only multicenter, National Institutes of Health - funded pediatric pancreatitis registry, led by Dr. Aliye Uc of University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital.

The scale of this initiative, funded largely by Rotary International, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO), Unicef, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and many national governments, is unprecedented.

This work was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health grants MH087581, MH0754047 and MH089800 and grants from the International Mental Health Research Organization, the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Although the disease hasn't been seen in North America, «the chance of someone infected with MERS landing on US shores is possible since international travelers that have been to the Arabian peninsula and exposed to the MERS CoV may be asymptomatic at the time of their travel» said Marasco, whose research on the virus is funded in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Institutes of Health.

Responding to recommendations made in 2011 by an international review panel led by Elias Zerhouni, the former head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the agency launched a three - pronged reform effort that revamped its funding streams, the way researchers submitted proposals, and the way proposals are reviewed.

«I have already ensured that the issues surrounding CIHR and its reforms will be considered by the panel, and I look forward to their advice,» wrote Philpott, who also noted that «I expect CIHR to ensure that the very best health research across all pillars [biomedical; clinical; health systems and services; and social cultural, environmental factors that affect the health of populations] is funded according to the highest international standards of research excellence.»

The source of the data was surveys conducted by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and Demographic and Health Surveys conducted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from 2011 to 2015.

The study, recently submitted for publication, was conducted in India by U.C.S.F. neurobiologist Jyoti Mishra with funding from the John E. Fogarty International Center, an arm of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) focused on global research.

Last month, after a 2 - day international meeting on the issue hosted by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, which funded the two controversial studies, key researchers and government officials said that they expected the moratorium to end soon.

But, in reality, it never ended.The continuing celebration of all things brain extends, once more, with the unveiling of a mammoth Web site devoted to neuroscience.Brainfacts.org — funded with $ 1.53 million project over six years by the Gatsby and Kavli Foundations — amasses basic information from leading organizations, ranging from the National Institutes of Health to the International Brain Research Organization in France, chronicling both how the brain works as well as major brain diseases.

In a surprisingly blunt report released on 13 November, a high - wattage international committee, led by former U.S. National Institutes of Health director Elias Zerhouni, proposes a massive overhaul of French life sciences research that would create a single, strong funding agency and likely spell the death of several existing institutes.

This research was supported by a WCU (World Class University) program through the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant, the Korea Healthcare technology R&D Project, the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Korea and the International Cooperation of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) grant funded by the Korean government Ministry of Knowledge Economy.