CIET’s work in the United States has been to provide technical support to community organizations interested in doing their own research.
 
In the New York metropolitan area CIET has worked with El Puente of Williamsburg, the Polish and Slavic Center of Greenpoint and Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice in the Bronx. 
 
The CIET-El Puente partnership is the subject of the lead editorial in the December 1999 issue of the American Journal of Public Health entitled “Building International Public Health Vision Through Local Community Research: The El Puente–CIET Partnership.” (Am J Public Health 1999; 89(12)).