⇒ Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar addressed the inaugural session of the 4th Indo-US Health Dialogue, hosted by India, at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on 27 September 2021.
The two-day Dialogue leveraged as a platform to deliberate upon multiple ongoing collaborations in the health sector between the two countries.
Discussion:
The issues related to areas of concern pertaining to strengthening of epidemiological research and surveillance, vaccine development, One Health, zoonotic and vector-borne diseases, health systems and health policies etc. were discussed during the two-day dialogue.
Concluding session:
Shri Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare addressed the closing session of 4th Indo-US Health Dialogue on 28 September.
Two MoUs were also signed at the concluding session.
» One MoU was signed between the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare of the India and Department of Health and Human Services of the USA concerning cooperation in the field of Health and Biomedical sciences.
» Another MoU was signed between Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) & National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for cooperation on International Centre for Excellence in Research (ICER).