International Health: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, on Joint Resolutions to Establish a National Institute for International Health and Medical ResearchU.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - 280 pages Considers. S.J. Res. 41, H.J. Res. 361, H.J. Res. 129, and H.J. Res. 443, to establish a National Institute for International Health and Medical Research. H.J. Res. 211, H.J. Res. 237, and H.J. Res. 293, to establish within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare a National Advisory Council for International Medical Research, and to establish a National Institute for International Medical Research within the Public Health Service. |
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Page 1 - Facilities with respect to matters bearing on the purposes and administration of this part. "(d) Appointed members of the Council, while attending conferences or meetings of the Council or while otherwise serving at the request of the Surgeon General, shall be entitled to receive compensation at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary but not exceeding $50 per diem, including travel time, and while away from their homes or regular places of business they may be allowed travel expenses, including per...
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Page 12 - ... Sec. 301. The Surgeon General shall conduct in the Service, and encourage, cooperate with, and render assistance to other appropriate public authorities, scientific institutions, and scientists in the conduct of, and promote the coordination of, research, investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and studies relating to the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of physical and mental diseases and impairments of man, including water purification, sewage treatment, and pollution...
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Page 18 - President in his usual budget message has requested the appropriation of nearly $100 million for such international health activities as (a) contributions to the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund, and the United Nations; (6) the malaria eradication program and assistance to underdeveloped countries in improving community water supplies; (c) health activities carried out through the International Cooperation Administration under technical...
Page 1 - Council is hereby exempted with respect to such appointment, from the operation of sections 281, 283, 284, and 1914 of title 18 of the United States Code, and section 190 of the Revised Statutes (5 USC 99) except as otherwise specified in paragraph (2) of this subsection.
Page 41 - We invite the Soviets to join with us in this great work of humanity. Indeed, we would be willing to pool our efforts with the Soviets in other campaigns against the diseases that are the common enemy of all mortals — such as cancer and heart disease. If people can get together on such projects...
Page 2 - Department (including any agency thereof), in addition to other positions for carrying out this joint resolution, not more than ten scientific, professional, and administrative positions to effectuate those activities in the Department in carrying out this joint resolution which require the services of specially qualified scientific, professional, or administrative personnel, in the same manner and subject to the same limitations as in the case of the positions authorized under section 208 (g) of...
Page 1 - ... (B) during the period of such appointment, to the prosecution or participation in the prosecution, by any person so appointed, of any claim against the Government involving any matter with which such person, during such period, is or was directly connected by reason of such appointment.