America promotes scientific cooperation with Vietnam

The US President's Science Envoy comes to Vietnam, to promote research cooperation programs between the two countries.

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During a visit from October 6, Dr. Rita Colwell, the South Asia and Southeast Asia science envoy of US President Barack Obama, met senior Vietnamese government officials and representatives scientific, educational, non-profit, and business communities.

Discussions focused on cooperation in the areas of climate change; public health; science, engineering, math education; technology and innovation for economic development; and joint research.

Dr. Rita Colwell.

On February 7, the scientific envoy had a meeting with the Minister of Science and Technology, Nguyen Quan. Rita Colwell emphasized the exchange program of scientists of the two countries. Accordingly, the two sides may send US scientists to Vietnam to teach short-term courses or may send students from Vietnam to the US to participate in research activities in the laboratories, or focus on projects that both countries are interested in.

"The expansion of cooperation between Vietnam and the US in the fields of science, technology, and technology is one of the best ways to strengthen the dynamism of the Vietnamese economy and people," said Dr. Colwell. to speak.

During this visit to Vietnam, Ms. Riata Cowell and her delegation will visit Ho Chi Minh City to visit a number of companies to find ways to increase their innovation and innovation activities, enhance the technology development, to be successful. Technology goes from the laboratory to a specific product.

President Obama announced the 2009 Science Enrollment Program. Since the program started, six of America's best scientists representing this country have traveled around the world building partnerships through endings. push science.

This is Dr. Colwell's third foreign business trip since being appointed as a Science Envoy in September 2010. The first business trip in her capacity as a Science Envoy took place in July 2011 in Malaysia and the second in January 2012 in Bangladesh.

A former director of the National Science Foundation, Dr. Colwell is a renowned microbiologist and infectious disease specialist. She is currently the president and CEO of CosmosID, a professor at both the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.