World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centers
The
objective of WHO is the attainment by all peoples of the highest
possible level of health. In support of this objective, the organization
directs, coordinates, stimulates and advances work on issues related to
health.
Since its inception, WHO has been heavily involved in research activities
in the fields of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, environmental
health, HIV/AIDS, human reproduction, immunology, malaria control, mental
health, tropical diseases, tuberculosis, etc., working with many top
research institutions world wide, officially designated as "Who
Collaboration Centers".
Telecommunication with these collaborating centers is one of the essential
requirements for the activities of the WHO. An increasing number of
projects have high-bandwidth requirements. WHO will no doubt gain
substantial benefit from being connected, via CERN, through the
Internet2/vBNS via Chicago STAR TAP to its partners in the USA (who are or
will be I2, NGI or vBNS members) with assurance of high-bandwidth, low
latency and quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees on an end-to-end basis.
Finally, the WHO web site is an important information resource for US
academic institutions. The .edu top-level domain name is its fourth largest
user, with half a million accesses per month. Being connected on the
high-speed backbone will bring the information on the WHO web site and on
its Internet servers closer to all students and researchers in US academic
institutions connected to Internet2.
Collaborators
Worldwide collaborators: Two hundred centers exist in the US alone, many
located in major medical and public health research centers and universities
http://www.who.int