NDRI stands for National Development Research Institutes. NDRI-USA believes that Public Health and social parity is achieved through collaborative partnerships in which practitioners are offered state-of-the-art learning interventions, research, and evaluation to improve their skills and programs. We improve outcomes for clients and patients by helping practitioners to do their jobs better.

NDRI-USA, Inc. has been in existence as an affiliate of National Development Research Institutes, Inc (a not-for-profit social and behavioral science research and training organization with an over 40 year history of public health service) since 1996. Re-instated as a separate 501(c)(3) in January of 2013, NDRI - USA, Inc. continues the long tradition of work begun by its founding organization as a leader on public health issues such as Substance Abuse, HIV/AIDS Viral Hepatitis and other STIs, Mental Health, Health Care Reform, and Criminal Justice problem solving courts.

MISSION STATEMENT
NDRI-USA’s mission is to build relationships between research and practice in the public health arena to ensure the advancement of state of the art techniques and supports for practitioners and clients. We do this through:

- fostering relationships at the federal, state, local, international, philanthropic and private sector levels, and
- reducing health and social disparities by creating sustainable change through learning interventions, curriculum development, training of trainers and health care professionals, needs assessments, technical assistance and capacity building, research and evaluation.