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The IOM convened the Committee on a National Center on War-Related Illnesses and Postdeployment Health Issues, composed of experts on war-related illnesses, clinical research, military medicine, epidemiology, health services research, operations research, development of interdisciplinary research centers, research ethics, technology transfer, and the integration of clinical and education programs with research. Between January and September 1999?
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· None of the locations of existing or proposed centers provides an adequate model for a national center that not only must be responsible for the conduct of a broad range of research but also must provide for synthesis and coordination of research efforts and for proposing policy changes based on research findings. · Examples exist of centers that cut across agencies and groups to carry out effective research agendas.
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Such a center would be in a position to provide an overarching research agenda that would identify gaps in current research, to coordinate existing and future research, to focus the infusion of new research funding, and to recommend policies related to such research. Therefore, the committee recommends that Congress establish a National Center for Military Deployment Health Research that will focus on the health of active, reserve, and guard forces, and veterans and their families.
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Therefore, the committee recommends that the National Center Governing Board be composed of: · three representatives each from VA, DoD, and HHS; · six independent representatives from the research community; and · six representatives from the community at large, including veterans and their families and the general public. Additionally, the committee recommends that an independent scientific entity nominate, for both the research-community and the community-atlarge positions, twice the number of candidates as there are positions available.
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This structure provides minimum disruption to the ongoing research activities while adding a needed mechanism for research prioritysetting and coordination, for dissemination of research results, and for undertaking tasks most appropriate for a central organization. Therefore, the committee recommends a broad-based Center-initiated research program that would solicit proposals from federal agencies, universities, and other research sites and that would be managed by the National Center.
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for the study of war-related illnesses and postdeployment health issues that could focus research on answering these questions. The committee has recommended the establishment of a National Center for Military Deployment Health Research, to be governed by an independent board composed of representatives of the scientific community, the veterans' community, and relevant federal agencies.
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