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population problems is centered in the Agency for International De- 

 velopment. Second only to the work of AID is that of the Department 

 of Health, Education, and Welfare, with its expanding relationship 

 to the World Health Organization.^^^ 



THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE 



The Department of State is perforce involved in the U.S. effort to 

 cope with the worldwide population explosion. The impact of the 

 expanding population on international relations is a pervasive one. 

 Tne Department has concluded that its officers serving abroad must 

 have a greater knowledge of population dynamics, and the Foreign 

 Service Institute has introduced material on population and family 

 matters into its courses for junior, middle level, and senior personnel. 

 In addition, the Institute conducts a series of seminars on population 

 for key officers at State and other foreign affairs agencies. The Special 

 Assistant for Population Matters, whose office was established by the 

 Secretary of State in 1966, consults with other agencies which have 

 responsibilities in the population field and also acts as the Depart- 

 ment's liaison man with U.S. embassies, particularly in the LDCs. 

 He sees to the exchange of information on developments in popula- 

 tion matters. In addition he maintains liaison with private organiza- 

 tions active in population work. In each regional bureau an official is 

 noSv designated as the Population Officer tor that bureau ; moreover 

 an official is similarly designated in each of the U.S. embassies, in- 

 cluding those in countries where there is no AID mission. 



THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE 



The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare is directly 

 concerned with U.S. international population programs, principally 

 in the field of research. Under the Public Health Service's administra- 

 tive umbrella, the National Institutes of Health, the Health Services 

 and Mental Health Administration, and the Consumer Protection and 

 Environmental Health Services are all conducting research, both in this 

 country and abroad, on aspects of family planning. The Center for 

 Population Research of the National Institute of Child Health and 

 Human Development coordinates the research programs carried on 

 in those countries where the United States owns excess local curren- 

 cies accumulated imder PL 480. A number of such projects are cur- 

 rently going f orward- 



The Center for Population Research is also the focal point for 

 HEW's contract research program in contraceptive development, 

 which was initiated in 1969. TMs program looks to the development 

 of contraceptive methods that will be effective, safe, reversible, inex- 

 pensive, and adapted to the diverse needs of the world's varied popu- 

 lation. Research has been concentrated in four areas : corpus luteum 

 function, sperm capacitation, oviduct function and gamete transport, 

 and the biology of the ovum ; each has demonstrated particular pro- 



ps' For a discussion of the relationship, see Chapter Nine, "The Politics of Global Health. 



