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Poi)uhuinii Fund, and UXICKF. Some of tliese funds are made avail- 

 able to WHO and PAHO. 



The principal limitations of AID as an organization to serve the 

 Nation's interests in health in all parts of the world are its lack of ade- 

 (luate stati' in the medical field and its practice of concentrating as- 

 sistance in relatively few countries. In the fiscal year 1060. 87 percent of 

 aid's countrv assistance went to only 15 nations. 



[nfiriKitional Actlvitic.s of the Department of Health, Education, 

 and Welfare 



Tiie Public Ilealtli Service (PHS) in the Department of Health. 

 Education, and Welfare (DHEW), is the primary U.S. (iovermnont 

 resouiT7> ill both national and international health. It is tiie official 

 teclinic:i! liaision of the U.S. Government with the World Health 

 Organization and the Pan American Health Organization. (The liai- 

 son is in the Office of International Health, now under the Assistant 

 Secretary for Health and Scientific xVffairs.) Its Chief Medical Officer 

 played a major role in the drafting of the WHO constitution and has 

 usually served as the liead of the U.S. delegation to the World Health 

 Assembly. 



In addition to its constitutional role in WHO. PHS prepares tlie 

 U.S. teclmical i)osition ])apcrs for the World Health Assembly, sup- 

 plies or assists in providing experts for the WHO advisory commit- 

 tees, and is tiio teclmical point of contact between the World Health 

 Organization and the U.S. (lovcrnment. 



Many of DIIEW's ]al>oratories and institutes participate as Refer- 

 ence Centers for the World Health Organization. There are 40 such 

 WHO renters or laboratories in tlie United States. The National Cen- 

 ter for Disease Control in Atlanta. Georgia, is the home of at least 8 of 

 these Reference Centei's for the World Health Organization at the 

 present time. 



The Department's prominent role in international health organiza- 

 tions does not make for an exclusively multilateral orientation on its 

 part. It ••"• * * has actively participated in bilateral health and sanita- 

 tion ]>i-ograms supported by the I'.S. Government in many countries 

 since World War II." ^ '- t'nder interagency agreements witli AID. 

 200 or more PHS staff membei-s work in cooperation with AID head- 

 quarters or are on field location with AID missions. Additional PHS 

 medical officei-s and other officers are assigned to the Peace Corps. 



ovf:rskas I'xrrs of iiif, xatioxal ixstitutes or health 



The National Institutes of Health (NIH) maintains overseas offices 

 in U.S. E:iil)assies in Paris. Rio de Janeii-o, Tokyo, and New Delhi. It 

 also supports research laboratories in the Panama Canal Zone (the 

 Middle America Research T'nit), in Puerto Rico (Laboratory of Peri- 

 natal Diseases), in Guam (Epidemiology and Genetics Centers) ; and 

 adniipisteis tlie Pakistan (^holera Research Lal)oratory for 

 SEATO.^^^ 



3-- •Iiiteriiatioiial Cdoperation in Health and Sanitation Programs," (19Go), op. clt., 

 IKitif !i4. 



'M"Nin Almanac, 1970," (Washing-ton U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970), pages 

 IMT-tt : See also: U.S. Congre.^s, House, Committee on Science and Astronautics. "The 

 PMrtiiip.itioii 1,1" Federal A-incies in International Scientific Programs," Rei)ort of the 

 Science I'ldicv Research and Foreign Affairs Divisions, Legislative Reference Service, to the 

 Subconiiiiittee on Science. Research, and Development, 90th Congress, first session, (Wash- 

 ington, I'.S. (J.ivernment I'rinting Ottice, 19G7), pages 137-9. 



