* South American Center for Cardiovascular Health (SACECH), Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Partner: Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (SPHTM), New Orleans, La., USA
* International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh*
Partner: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md., USA

* The George Institute, Beijing, China*
Partner: Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, N.C., USA
* Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala City, Guatemala*
Partners: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md., USA; RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif., USA; Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass., USA
* St. John's Research Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka, India*
Partner: Population Health Research Institute (PHRI), Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
* Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India*
Partner: Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., USA
* Moi University, School of Medicine, Eldoret, Kenya
Partner: Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C., USA
* Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
Partner: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md., USA
* University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa*
Partner: Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

*COE also funded by UnitedHealth CDI.

In addition to the above COEs that are supported in part by the UnitedHealth CDI as indicated, UnitedHealth is also funding:

* University Hospital Farhat Hached, Sousse, Tunisia
Partner: Department of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, National Public Health Institute of Helsinki, KTL, Finland
* Pan American Health Organization U.S.- Mexico Border Office, El Paso, TX, USA
Partners: University of Texas, El Paso, TX, USA; The University of Arizona, MEZ School of Public Health, Tucson, Ariz., USA; Whittier Institute of Diabetes, San Diego, Calif., USA

Information on all of the UnitedHealth and the NHLBI Collaborating Centers of Excellence can be found on the NHLBI Global Health InitiativeWebsite, www.globalhealth.nhlbi.nih.gov (to go live at 6:30 p.m. EDT on June 10).

Information on the UnitedHealth Group can be found at www.unitedhealthgroup.com.

To interview an NHLBI spokesperson, contact the NHLBI Communications Office at 301-496-4236 or at nhlbi_news@nhlbi.nih.gov. To interview a UnitedHealth spokesperson, contact Marti Jones at 952-931-5490 or at martha_jones@uhc.com. For a list of in-country media contacts, see http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/globalhealth/media-room/index.htm (live at 6:30 p.m. EDT on June 10)

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