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PUBLIC LAW 86-610-JULY 12, 1960

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Public Law 86-610 July 12, 1960 ^

JOINT RESOLUTION To establish a National Institute for International Health and Medical Research, to provide for international cooperation in health research, research training, and research planning, and for other purposes.

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enemies or all nations and peoples, and that the means, methods, and techniques for combating and abating the ravages of disease and disability and for improving the health and health standards of man should be sought and shared, without regard to national boundaries and divisions; and Whereas advances in combating and abating disease and in the positive promotion of human health can be stimulated by supporting and encouraging cooperation among scientists, research workers, and teachers on an international basis, with consequent benefit to the health of our people and of all peoples; and Whereas there already exist tested means for international cooperation in matters relating to health, including the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, and the United Nations Children's Fund ( U N I C E F), with which the United States is identified and associated, and it is highly desirable that the United States establish domestic machinery for the maximum mobilization of its health research resources, the more efficiently to cooperate with and support the research, research-training and research-planning endeavors of such international organizations: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SHORT TITLE

1. This joint resolution may be cited as the "International Health Kesearch Act of 1960". SECTION

PURPOSE OF RESOLUTION

SEC. 2. I t is the purpose of this joint resolution— (1) to advance the status of the health sciences in the United States and thereby the health of the American people through cooperative endeavors with other countries in health research, and research training; and (2) to advance the international status of the health sciences through cooperative enterprises in health research, research planning, and research training, AUTHORITY OP SURGEON GENERAL

stll fS' ^^^' ^° ^^^- ^' ^^^^ A o* *it^^ m o^ th^ Public Health Service Act (42 42 USC 24i-242e. U.S.C. ch. 6A) is amended by adding immediately after section 307, the following new section: "INTERNATIONAL

COOPERATION

"SEC. 308. (a) To carry out the purposes of clause (1) of section 2 of the International Health Eesearch Act of 1960, the Surgeon General may, in the exercise of his authority under this Act and other provisions of law to conduct and support health research and research training, make such use of health research and research training resources in participating foreign countries as he may deem necessary and desirable.

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