An institution whose primary output is original public health, epidemiological or nutrition research conducted by its own staff, distinct from a body that trains students or a body that funds others research. Belongs here: a standalone research institute. Does not belong here: a degree granting school, grouped under schools of public health, or a funding-only foundation, grouped under philanthropic foundations.
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In London, the Royal Society was founded in 1660, and in France, Louis XIV founded the Académie royale des sciences in 1666, which came after private academic assemblies had been created earlier in the seventeenth century to foster research.
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