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1 1.BackgroundCooperation between public health professionals from the territ-ory represented by the American Institute in Taiwan (hereinafterreferred to as the "AIT") and the territory represented by theCoordination Council for North American Affairs ( hereinafter r-eferred to as the "CCNAA") isfurthered pursuant to the Agreementdated September 4, 1980, between AIT and CCNAA, which was renew-ed by an exchange of letters effective March 10, 1987. The "Tai-wan Relations Act" (Public Law 96-8, 22 U.S.C. 3301et seq., Apr-il 10, 1979) authorizes the continuation of commercial , cultur-al and other relations between the people of the territory repr-esented by AIT and of the people in the territory represented bythe CCNAA. Such relations are conducted by or through AIT, a no-n-profit Corporation, incorporated under the laws of the Distri-ct of Columbia. CCNAA is the instrumentality which has been est-ablished to provide assurances and take actions on behalf of thepeople in the territory represented by the CCNAA. AIT works inassociation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, in administering the program. CCNAAperforms a similar function in affiliation with the Departmentof Health, Executive Yuan (DOH), in Taipei.2.Program GoalsGoals of this agreement are:■To increase the contacts and cooperation between public healthprofessionals and institutions ofthe two sides; ■To provide public health professionals and institutions withopportunities to exchange information, ideas, experience and techniques; ■To enhance opportunities to collaborate in solving public hea-lth problems of common interest; Cooperation may be in the areas of public health, management sk-ills including cost effectiveness and ecological impact assessm-ents, and behavioral sciences. The types of cooperative activit-ies may include the exchange of scientific information, visits,training, seminars and workshops, and cooperative projects.3.Implementation and CoordinationCCNAA and AIT will coordinate and implement the activities agre-ed to under these Guidelines with the Centers, Institute, and P-rogram Offices of CDC and similar organizations allied to the D-OH. Each side shall designate a program coordinator to be respo-nsible under its auspices for the overall coordination of coope-rative activities under these Guidelines. For each topic identi-fied as the subject of a formal cooperative activity, each sideshall also name a topic coordinator.Research activities, which remain the responsibility of individ-ual researchers themselves, are not covered under these Guideli-nes.4.FundingFunding of cooperative activities under these Guidelines shallbe carried out on the basis of mutuality, reciprocity,' and fle-xibility. In general, each side will fund the cost of its parti-cipation in cooperative activities (unless agreed on and specif-ied otherwise) or may, if it chooses. provide full or partial s-upport for participation in these activities by scientists of t-he other side. Receipt of funding in such cases either from AITto CCNAA or from CCNAA to AIT will be officially signed and sub-mitted by CCNAA to AIT or by AIT to CCNAA upon receipt of funds.Decisions on funding for joint activities will be made by mutualagreement and specified in letters of understanding exchanged p-rior to initiation of a proposed activity.5.FellowshipsThe CDC, through its visiting programs (fellows/assoeiates/scie-ntists and guest researcher/special volunteer programs), provid-es collaborative program and training opportunities at the CDCin the United States for $cientists sponsored by the DOH. AIT w-ill undertake to facilitate the participation of public healthprofessionals from the territory represented by CCNAA in such p-rograms. As a reciprocal measure, CCNAA will undertake, in coor-dination with the DOH, to implement a program of fellowships forUnited Stated public health professionals applying to conduct c-ollaborative projects and/or training in the territory represen-ted by CCNAA. This program will be administered in the United S-tates by AIT in accordance with the requirements of the visitingprogram of the DOH.6.Review MeetingsCCNAA and AIT program coordinators shall meet at times and plac-es of their choosing to review this program of cooperation, theguidelines, and additions/modifications to same.7.Potential Areas of CooperationA.Scope of Cooperation may cover:(1) Exchange of information in the related areas;(2) Visits and/or training of relevant personnel;(3) Joint seminars on topics of mutual interest and benefit; and(4) Joint projects on mutually agreed topics.B.Potential Areas of Cooperative Study and Prevention may inclu-de: (1) Chronic disease surveillance, prevention and health promoti-on (including cancer, heart disease and stroke);(2) Infectious disease surveillance and control (including food-borne, vector-borne, blood-borne, sexually-transmitted, andvaccine-preventable diseases);(3) Injury surveillance and prevention;(4) Birth defects and maternal mortality surveillance and preve-ntion;(5) Behavioral risk factor surveillance and intervention (inclu-ding smoking, seatbelt/helmet non-use, sedentary lifestyle,alcohol abuse, and drug abuse) ;(6) Occupational Health;(7) Environmental Health;(8) Information Resource Management (including medical library,database management, communications systems);(9) Public health laboratory improvement (quality central stand-ards and techniques for establishing a national reference l-ab);(10)Training in applied epidemiology and management science.Other areas of cooperation may be added from time to time as maybe mutually agreed to by CDC and DOH with the concurrence of CC-NAA and AIT.for CCNAA:For AIT:[Signed][Signed]James Wen-Chung Chang J. Richard BeckDeputy Representative Deputy Managing DirectorJuly 19, 1994 June30,1994