All Latin American Research Institutes

Research institutes and foundations of Latin America and the Caribbean, many of them public bodies created to meet a national need such as tropical disease, agriculture or astronomy, and later grown into regional centers of training and research. They often combine laboratory work, field studies and public service in one organization, and work closely with national health or science ministries. An institution belongs here when its cited article describes it as a research institute or research foundation based in a Latin American or Caribbean country, as the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation is a public health research foundation of Brazil. It excludes universities, which sit in the university groups, and institutes of other regions, which sit in their own groups.