INCLEN comprises health specialists concerned with the availability, effectiveness and efficiency of health care in their home countries. Created in 1980 as a project of The Rockefeller Foundation, INCLEN has been an independent non-profit organization since 1988.

    For 21 years INCLEN has helped clinicians and other scientists obtain the knowledge and tools to improve the health of people in the developing world. Through carefully designed training and other support, INCLEN helps them critically to assess the factors that determine the most effective prevention and treatment strategies.

    Today our membership includes 64 medical institutions in 26 countries throughout the world. The multi-disciplinary faculty includes clinical epidemiologists, health social scientists, biostatisticians, and clinical economists, each of whom believes that fighting disease in an age of limited financial resources depends on integrating the principles of clinical epidemiology into his or her own practice.

    INCLEN provides a forum for researchers to discuss critical health issues through educational programs, global meetings, and an international communications network. It supports young researchers and provides network members opportunities to participate in collaborative clinical studies. As a partnership of clinicians and health scientists who are trained to use and produce the best possible evidence in their medical decision making, INCLEN can have a profound impact on health care practices globally.