Multidisciplinary Approach
	INCLEN began as a proposal to improve health care in developing countries by promoting a population-based framework among health care professionals in the planning, measurement, and evaluation of systems. It soon became evident that INCLEN needed the collaboration of other disciplines like anthropology, sociology, economics, demography, and management in order to actually improve health care policy and practice.
	Thus INCLEN has evolved into a "matrix network" that uses diverse disciplinary resources and collaboratve arrangements to address health care problems. Currently, it has a membership of over 1200 graduates in clinical epidemiology, biostatistics, clinical economics, and other social sciences who are based in 78 clinical epidemiology units and 19 clinical research and training centers in 39 countries.
	Global and Regional Networks
	INCLEN today is a worldwide network of health professionals dedicated to improving equity, efficiency, and quality in health care through training and the production and application of the best evidence on interventions. Beginning in October 2000, a critical transition point was hurdled, with the new INCLEN Trust registered as an international NGO based in the Philippines. The new INCLEN Trust has been distinct in its strategic emphasis on regional clinical epidemiology networks functioning as semi-autonomous research and training networks: INCLENAfrica, CanUSACLEN, ChinaCLEN, INCLEN-EuroMed, IndiaCLEN, INCLEN-Southeast Asia, and LatinCLEN.