Title V of Foreign Relations Authorization Act for FY 1979 (P.L 95-426): requires an annual Presidential report 

 to recommendations and information on equity of access by U.S. public and private entities to research and develop- 

 ment opportunities and facilities of major U.S. trading partners (codified at 22 U.S.C. 2656(c)). 



National Science and Technology Policy, Organizational, and Priorities Act of 1976 (P.L 94-282): in additional 

 to establishing the Office of Science and Technology in the Executive Office of the President (OSTP), Title IV of this 

 law established the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (FCCSET) to consider 

 problems in the field of science, engineering and technology, inter alia, to recommend pohcies to further internation- 

 al cooperation in this area. The law provides for State representation (typically the Under Secretary for International 

 Security Affairs) on FCCSET, which is chaired by OSTP (codified at 42 U.S.C. 6601). A subcommittee of FCCSET 

 on International Science, Engineering and Technology (CISET) is chaired by State/T. 



E.O. 12591 (April 10, 1987): provides for the creation of a central mechanism for the prompt dissemination of 

 science and technology information developed abroad on a fee-for-service basis. This Executive Order requires that 

 negotiators of international science and technology accords determine, in consultation with USTR, that contracting 

 countries give reciprocal access to U.S. researchers and businesses and provide for the protection of intellectual 

 property. It requires the Secretary of State to develop a recruitment policy to seek quabfied scientists and engineers 

 to serve in U.S. embassies abroad. 



DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (VA) 

 PERSPECTIVE 



General Description of Current Relationship: 



The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) of the Department of Veteran's Affairs has close affiliations with 

 104 of the Nation's University Medical Schools and over 1400 Associated Health Professionals Schools. Through 

 these public-private sector partnerships, VA hospitals participate in the education of health care professionals for VA 

 and provide a suitable laboratory environment for such faculty. Approximately 7,000 VA physicians and some 2,000 

 other hospital personnel held faculty positions in 1991. VA's research and development program not only resjjonds to 

 the perceived needs of veterans, but also identifies needs that require a research response. Thus, many of the current 

 research projects deal with complex special problems such as those of Vietnam veterans as well as those of older 

 veterans. 



Public Benerit(s) from Research-Intensive Universities/Federal Government Relationship: 



The Nation's veterans receive first class health care and benefit from research advances; the quality and stand- 

 ards of excellence of academic medicine are provided to veterans. Integration of health professions training insures a 

 single national quality standard for education, and affords all health professions students the opportunity to par- 

 ticipate in federal health care during their training. 



VAAJniversity partnerships contribute to the diffusion of scientific and clinical research. The academic col- 

 laboration of VA hospitals and their partner research universities and academic health centers promotes biomedical, 

 prosthetics, and health services research of benefit to the health of all Americans. The list of VA research accomplish- 

 ments includes such milestones as pioneering work in: 



• drug therapy for tuberculosis and mental illness; 



• organ transplantation; 



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