HCM City enhances international cooperation in preventive medicine
The Ho Chi Minh City Centre for Disease Control (HCDC) signed a cooperation agreement on preventive medicine with the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) on August 31, aiming to make strides toward improving the disease control capability at the centre.
HCM City (VNA) - The Ho Chi Minh CityCentre for Disease Control (HCDC) signed a cooperation agreement on preventivemedicine with the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) on August 31, aiming to make strides t🌜oward improving the disease control capability at the centre.
Accordingly, both sides will share knowledge,techniques, and scientific information in the field, including testing, diseasescreening, data analysis and management, and scientific research over a periodof five years. The OUCRU will assist the HCDC in trainingdiagnostic techniques for infectious diseases, such as isolating and detectingdisease agents using molecular biological methods and decoding genes. They will alsostep up research topics related to emerging infectious diseases and evaluatecommunity intervention measures. OUCRU Director in Ho Chi Minh City GuyThwaites said over the course of more than 30 years in Vietnam, the unithas conducted numerous studies on infectious diseases that could affect thehealth and lives of Vietnamese citizens as well as those in Southeast Asiancountries in general. With this collaboration, Deputy Director ofthe municipal Health Department Nguyen Van Vinh Chau hoped for more communityhealth studies and assessments of the effectiveness of disease controlpolicies. This, in turn, could pave the way for new directions in research cooperationin preventive medicine. He also asked the HCDC to strengthen itsinternal strength and enhance its capacity to engage in effective studies,which is also one of the key components of a relevant project launched by themunicipal People's Committee early this year./.
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At the signing ceremony (Photo: VNA) 
