The United States and India are enhancing their collaboration in science, technology, innovation, and health. This partnership aims to strengthen bilateral relations, drive economic growth, and develop technologies to tackle global challenges like climate change, health, education, food security, water, and energy.
Both nations are committed to gender equality in the scientific workforce and have conducted exchanges to encourage women's participation in science. Over the past year, two endowments—the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and the U.S.-India Science and Technology Endowment Fund—have provided around $3 million for exchange visits and technology commercialization through joint ventures.
The India-U.S. Technology Summit is scheduled for November 18-19 in New Delhi under the theme "Tackling 21st Century Challenges Together." It will involve companies, academic institutions, and scientists working on joint research and development. The summit will include a government-to-government program led by India's Department of Science and Technology and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
The U.S.-India Science and Technology Joint Commission Meeting (JCM) will occur from November 14-17 in New Delhi. Co-chaired by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and India's Ministry of Science and Technology, it provides strategic guidance on science agency collaborations.
The U.S.-India Science and Technology Endowment Board has announced awards under its Fourth Call for proposals. These awards support projects under "Healthy Individual" and "Empowering Citizens" categories such as low-cost medical equipment development.
USAID's Millennium Alliance brings together public-private partners to address development challenges in health, agriculture, water, energy, and education sectors. Other USAID-supported initiatives include READ Alliance, Urban Water/Sanitation/Hygiene (WASH) Alliance among others.
In civil space cooperation, NASA collaborates with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on various missions including NISAR mission aimed at generating earth observation data for applications like food security.
USAID is also focusing on providing safe drinking water in urban areas through public-private alliances aiming to reduce preventable morbidity among children.
In health cooperation efforts between both countries aim at ending preventable child deaths by 2035 with USAID partnering with Indian private sector firms.
The Global Health Security Agenda sees India collaborating with other nations to combat infectious disease threats while promoting global health security as an international priority.
Health research partnerships focus on diabetes research among other areas while antimicrobial resistance is being addressed collaboratively at various levels to ensure effective treatment measures remain available.
Environmental health efforts see both countries finalizing a Memorandum of Understanding focusing on pollution control among other areas while high-energy physics cooperation involves agreements between respective departments of energy from both countries facilitating further understanding of fundamental physics.