These include a joint clean energy research and development center, the establishment of a global disease detection center in India, and an agreement for cooperation in weather and crop forecasting.

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It undertakes staff development and training programmes in peace pedagogy and peace research methods at partner universities and is working to lead the establishment of the first ever African Peace University.

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In 2002 the Institute of Medicine (which is not part of the NIH, but is the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences) called for the creation of a National Vaccine Authority that would have sweeping responsibilities, including market research, the establishment of priorities, control of intellectual-property rights, the conduct of in-house research and development and the financing of clinical trials of candidate vaccines.

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