Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) - Guatemala City, Guatemala

Center of Excellence Activity Sites

Mesoamerica and the Caribbean, which includes the following areas:

• Southern Mexico
• Central America (Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama)
• Dominican Republic

Developed Country Partner

Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Principal Investigator: Benjamin Caballero, M.D., Ph.D. ...

Objectives

To reduce the burden of CVD [cardiovascular diseases] in Mesoamerica by establishing a Center of Excellence to carry out research, training, and capacity-building for prevention and management of CVD and related risk factors."

-- National Heart Blood and Lung Institute, National Institutes of Health (2009). Global Health Initiative: Centers of Excellence: Guatemala. Retrieved January 27, 2009 from

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/globalhealth/centers/guatemala-center-of-excellence.htm

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I have been excitedly surprised to discover the existence, previously unknown to me,  of a large system of interconnected health organizations that start with major agencies of the US government, branch out to more local levels of health service in this country, and ramify across international borders to developing countries, including Latin America, which naturally will be a focus of my attention as my career develops. It's good to know that infrastructure is growing out from our country to help our neighbors. ~ Luis