All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal and the National Institute of Research in Environmental Health (ICMR-NIREH) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to increase cooperation & stimulate research in the field of environmental attributes of human health. The MOU signing took place at AIIMS Bhopal on Monday and the MOU was signed by Dr Ajai Singh, Executive Director & CEO, AIIMS Bhopal and Dr Rajnarayan R Tiwari, Director, ICMR-NIREH Bhopal.
AIIMS Bhopal is an autonomous Institute of National Importance (INI) functioning under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) with the objectives of a) correcting regional imbalances in the availability of affordable and reliable tertiary healthcare services b) augmenting facilities for quality medical education to create a critical mass of healthcare professionals, and c) conducting research in the country relevant to the area. Whereas ICMR-NIREH is an institute of the Indian Council of medical research mandated with studies on environmental health to meet health challenges in environmental disasters and/or degradation in the country.
The MOU focuses on increasing collaborative research, exchanging experimental facilities, and conducting joint academic activities in the fields of communicable and non-communicable diseases and the environmental attributes of human health such as air, water, and soil pollution, environmental sanitation, urbanization, climate change and chemical disasters.