Last month Dr. Varmus, a co-chair of the Obama administration's Council of Science Advisors, was in London and the Times of London published an article based on an interview with him.
Dr Varmus said that American diplomacy had undervalued the role of medicine and science in fostering friendly relations with developing nations.Comment: This is good news, adding to the body of evidence that the next few years will make more progress in the application of knowledge to American development policy. JAD
He is asking President Obama to endorse a plan from the US Institute of Medicine that would almost double annual US support for global health to $15 billion by 2012.Dr Varmus is also advocating a “Global Science Corps” of scientists willing to spend at least a year working in a poor country, and a network of science attachés for every US embassy.
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