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April 2012

• Smallpox Eradication Continues to Inspire Innovations in Global Health - Sabin Vaccine Institute News via PR Newswire, April 24, 2012
• $20M awarded to establish research training network
• Building the next generation of global health leaders: opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Focus on Fulbright-Fogarty Fellows
• Fogarty partnership with Fulbright provides new overseas training opportunities
• Tracking drug-resistant TB in Malawi
• Studying social networks to combat HIV in South Africa
• Serving individuals while developing lab skills
• Vet uses fellowship to map future course
• White House encourages global health innovations
• US agencies integrating science into development
• Exploring the Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health
• Child health expert Dr Alejandro Cravioto stresses early interventions
• Microbicides provide new hope for HIV prevention in women
• What we're reading: Global Justice and Bioethics
• Global health briefs - April 2012
• People in the news - April 2012
• NIH awards $20M to train next generation of global health researchers - Fogarty News, April 4, 2012
• Global health researchers at Emory receive NIH funds to mentor young scientists - Emory News Center, April 4, 2012
• UW leads NIH-funded consortium to train global health researchers - University of Washington News, April 4, 2012
• UC Berkeley leads $4 million program to train health researchers - University of California, Berkeley News, April 4, 2012
• U-M shares in $5 million grant to train global health researchers, Medical School partners in Ghana and China are among the training sites - University of Michigan News, April 4, 2012
• VU a leader in new global health training program - Vanderbilt University Reporter, April 5, 2012
• Duke Awarded Funding to Train Global Health Researchers - Duke Global Health Institute News, April 9, 2012
• Tulane will share in funding to mentor global health scientists - Tulane News, April 2012
• NIH funds UCGHI GloCal Health Fellowship - UCLS Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) News, April 5, 2012
• National Institutes of Health awards $20 mn to train next generation of global health researchers - Pharmabiz.com News, April 9, 2012
• With Fogarty support, researchers use a game to change how scientists study outbreaks - Public Library of Science (PLoS) News, April 3, 2012
• Related journal article: How to Make Epidemiological Training Infectious - PLoS Biology, April 3, 2012

March 2012

• Tuberculosis (TB) Information and Resources from Fogarty, for World TB Day on March 24, 2012
• Fogarty researchers on past influenza pandemics: The Brazilian Navy faces its worst enemy in WWI: The Spanish flu - Eureka Alert, March 14, 2012
• Related journal article: Exceptionally high mortality rate of the 1918 influenza pandemic in the Brazilian naval fleet, Journal of Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, February 15, 2012

February 2012

• Africa’s medical journals see rapid recovery - Research Africa, February 13, 2012
• Guest Commentary by Dr. Nils Daulaire, Director, HHS Office of Global Affairs: Global Health through Collaboration and Leadership - NCI Cancer Bulletin, February 7, 2012

January 2012

• NIH research essential to global AIDS relief efforts
• NIH Director Francis Collins tours India research sites
• Budget set for NIH, new translational center launched
• USAID introduces strategic framework for global health
• Plan drafted for USAID university engagement program
• Research plays key role in new HHS global health strategy
• NIH-supported biodiversity project is first to receive Nagoya funding
• Q and A with Dr Ted Trimble, Director of NCI's Center for Global Health
• US-Irish cancer collaboration agreement is renewed
• Emerging economies provide new opportunities for research collaborations:
  opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• FOCUS on mHealth
• Mobile health research agenda continues to evolve
• Electronic protocols improve child health in Tanzania
• Managing diabetes with mobile health tools
• Mobile phones help to prevent HIV transmission in breast milk
• Global health briefs - January 2012
• People in the news - January 2012
• GEF Announces Approval of first project under Nagoya Protocol Implementation Fund - News from Global Environment Facility (GEF), January 12, 2012
• Roger Glass named recipient of the 2012 Programme for Global Paediatric Research Award for Outstanding Contributions to Global Child Health - News from the Programme for Global Paediatric Research (PGPR), January 6, 2012

December 2011

• Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls for evidence-based efforts to defeat AIDS
• Focus on Bioethics
  • Bioethics: protecting lives in service to research
  • Bioethics takes root in Nigeria
  • Trainee to teacher: Leveraging bioethics learning in India
  • NIH Common Fund supports bioethics study, training
• Examining the connections between climate change and diarrheal disease
• Fogarty scholar paves career path in India
• Sparking a career combating HIV/AIDS in Cambodia
• NIH aids effort to produce meningitis vaccine for Africa
• CDC combats global infectious disease threats
• Q and A with Dr E William Colglazier, Science and Technology Adviser to the US Secretary of State
• A research agenda for indoor air pollution: opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Congressman Fogarty’s widow dies
• Former Fogarty Director Dr Philip E Schambra is remembered
• Inaugural US-Russia Scientific Forum held in Moscow
• Global health briefs - December 2011
• People in the news - December 2011
• Nurturing the Global Workforce in Clinical Research: The National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Clinical Scholars and Fellows Program - The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, December 2011
• News from NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins's trip to India
• A microscopic view - Hindustan Times, December 4, 2011
• All human beings are one big family - The Times of India, December 4, 2011
• Fogarty ICBG Grantee News: Scientists in Sulawesi Discover New Species Hidden in Mountains - Jakarta Globe, December 1, 2011
• Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass on World AIDS Day: Building developing country capacity is key in the battle against HIV/AIDS, Breakthroughs, a blog by the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC), December 1, 2011

November 2011

• UF receives $1.1 million to support behavioral health training, research partnerships in India - University of Florida News, November 28, 2011
• Weigh Disease Eradication Campaigns With Broader Health Goals, Experts Say at AAAS, featuring Fogarty Acting Deputy Director Dr. Joshua Rosenthal - News from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), November 18, 2011
• Advancing cooperation of Russian and US scientific communities - The Voice of Russia, November 16, 2011

October 2011

• Obituary: Luise R. Fogarty, global health advocate and widow of late congressman John E. Fogarty - Providence Journal, October 21, 2011
• Fogarty Framework grant supports Duke e-library training for developing country researchers - Duke Global Health Institute News, October 25, 2011
• Malaria vaccine shows promise - Philadelphia Inquirer, October 19, 2011
• First Results of Phase 3 Trial of RTS,S/AS01 Malaria Vaccine in African Children - The New England Journal of Medicine, October 18, 2011
• Inefficient developing world stoves contribute to 2 million deaths a year - NIH News, October 14, 2011
  • A Major Environmental Cause of Death - Science Policy Forum, October 14, 2011
• FNIH Announces the First Annual US-Russia Scientific Forum - Foundation for the National Institutes of Health News Release, October 10, 2011
• NIH launches research program to explore health effects from climate change - NIH News, October 6, 2011
• Fogarty Funds Continued Research in Suicide Prevention in China - University of Rochester Medical Center News Release, October 5, 2011

September 2011

• Knaul Urges World To Close the Cancer Divide - NIH Record Newsletter, September 30, 2011
• Fogarty-supported UCLA scientists find H1N1 flu virus prevalent in animals in Africa - UCLA News Release, September 22, 2011
• Call to action on drug-resistant malaria - Fogarty News, September 21, 2011
• Are Pigs Bringing the Flu to Your State? Fogarty Researcher Maps Influenza Spread by Hogs - Scientific American, September 21, 2011
• Accelerating progress on non-communicable diseases, co-authored by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass in The Lancet, September 19, 2011
• Fogarty supported study finds early HIV treatment cost-effective in resource-limited settings from PLoS Medicine September 20, 2011
• UN meets on chronic, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), adopts declaration on prevention
• Shining a spotlight on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs): opinion by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass
• Q and A with NHLBI Acting Director Dr. Susan Shurin
• Focus on Chronic Diseases
• Chronic, non-communicable diseases (NCDs): A silent scourge threatening to overwhelm global health
• Fogarty funds new non-communicable disease programs
• Reducing the guesswork and cost of rating heart disease
• Inexpensive polypills may add years for heart patients
• The chronic challenge of household air pollution
• Confronting South Asia's diabetes epidemic
• Changing the color of the rice bowl to beat diabetes
• India residents build park, exercise more to reduce diabetes risk
• Building the capacity to battle cancer
• Former Fogarty Director Dr. Phillip E. Schambra dies
• Solving a math puzzle to stop infectious disease
• Fogarty supports zoonotic disease research in Tanzania
• Lessons learned from history's influenza pandemics
• Syrian Tobacco Center rated most productive in research
• The promise of rotavirus vaccine in developing nations
• Call for new research to slow drug-resistant diseases
• Italy and US reach drug abuse research accord
• African genetics and nursing funding opportunities released
• Global health briefs - September 2011
• People in the news - September 2011
• Fogarty director Dr. Roger I. Glass previews UN summit on NCDs for State Department, from State Department's IIP Digital newsfeed, September 6, 2011
• BMJ Editor Fiona Godlee presents "Lessons from the MMR scare" on September 6, 2011

July 2011

• Non-communicable disease (NCD) panel highlights need for comprehensive solutions
• Arab Spring provides new opportunities for US collaborations with Egypt
• New research details spread of swine flu virus
• Domesticated foxes provide insight into human behavior
• Focus on the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
• About NIAID
• HIV/AIDS: 30 years of hard-won victories
• Q and A with NIAID Director Dr. Anthony S. Fauci
• NTDs and the skewed burden of disease
• Research targets new diagnostics, drugs and vaccines for TB
• NIAID-funded centers seek to enhance malaria control
• Basis for key parasite function in malaria found
• ICER program fosters research collaborations in developing countries
• Centers expand global reach of influenza research
• NIAID funding and training for foreign scientists and institutions
• Giant steps in the battle against HIV/AIDS: opinion by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass
• Focusing on new medicines for the developing world
• Ambassador Goosby’s long view on the fight against HIV/AIDS
• First Lady Michelle Obama visits Fogarty grantee in Botswana
• Global health briefs - August 2011
• People in the news - August 2011
• HHS announces proposal to improve rules protecting human research subjects - HHS News Release, July 22, 2011
• Fogarty grantee and former trainee work to improve mental health in Indonesia [Video] - PBS Newshour, July 18, 2011
• Renewal grants for HIV/AIDS programs awarded - Fogarty News, July 11, 2011
• Fogarty awards new bioethics grants - Fogarty News, July 11, 2011
• Fogarty funds new and ongoing trauma research - Fogarty News, July 11, 2011
• Thinking globally to improve mental health: NIH announces international research initiative - NIH News Release, July 6, 2011
• Grand challenges in global mental health - article from nature.com, July 6, 2011

June 2011

• Fogarty supported scientists work to slow the spread of drug-resistant disease organisms from Penn State Science News, June 22, 2011
• Moscow talks further US-Russia scientific collaboration
  • A Russian spring for research: opinion by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass
• Global Health Initiative (GHI) administrative supplements available
• Focus on Trauma
  • Taking trauma care and injury prevention to the next level
  • Seeds of progress in Chinese agriculture
  • Developing injury research in Guatemala
  • Driving Ghana to a safer future
• National Library of Medicine (NLM) puts 175 years in the books
• African journals partnership moves forward
• RAPIDD program veteran tracks viruses transmitted by bats
• Cookstove workshop targets research gaps, priorities
• Multiplying the impact of reproductive health research
• Mexican flu study by Fogarty supports social distancing
• Q & A with USAID's science chief Dr. Alex Dehgan
• Smoking ban in China follows Fogarty-supported work
• mHealth gaining, but still limited to small projects
• Global health briefs - June 2011
• People in the news - June 2011

May 2011

• Mexican flu pandemic study supports social distancing, Fogarty research published in PLoS Medicine - Fogarty press release, May 24, 2011
• Closing Schools Seems to Prevent Flu's Spread - U.S. News & World Report, May 24, 2011
• Characterizing the Epidemiology of the 2009 Influenza A/H1N1 Pandemic in Mexico - PLoS Medicine, May 24, 2011
• Crossing Borders to Detect and Prevent Disease: NIH research in Ghana studies malaria to improve diagnostic techniques - from the Spring 2011 National Center for Research Resources NCRR Reporter newsletter

April 2011

• The Foundation for the NIH and Fogarty Launch First U.S.-Russia Scientific Forum Planning Meeting to Advance Research Collaborations - April 20, 2011 from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH)
• Africa’s medical educators gather for historic meeting
  • More on the Medical Education Partnership Inititive (MEPI):
• Q & A with MEPI grantee Dr. Emilia Noormahomed
• New hope for African medical education: guest opinion by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass
• Fogarty hosts global health advocate Crisp
• Focus on Addiction
• The global health cost of addiction
• Researching the roots of addiction in Yemen
• Meth takes a toll in South Africa
• Anti-smoking programs target Indian youth
• Brain drain: heroin use in Bulgaria
• NIH aids stricken Chile, Haiti with equipment loans
• Something new under the sea: promising malaria treatment found in Fiji
• New website to assist unfunded NIH applicants
• Implementation science experts push the envelope
• Lois Quam details Global Health Initiative strategy
• Global health briefs April 2011
• People in the news April 2011

March 2011

• PEPFAR Programs Support African Efforts to Fight Global AIDS - March 19, 2011, post by Ambassador Eric Goosby to DipNote, the U.S. Department of State Official Blog
• News on the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) launch:
  • News from MEPI partner University of Cape Town
    • NIH visit to [University of Cape Town] Faculty hailed a success - March 12, 2011
    • Balancing hype and hope is the challenge for genome science - March 11, 2011
    • Genomics and global health in 2011 [podcast] - Dr. Francis Collins delivers Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture
  • NIH’s Collins: New opportunities for global health research in Africa - March 14, 2011, Science Speaks: HIV & TB News, an interview with NIH Director Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD
  • New U.S. program puts African scientists in charge - March 11, 2011, Science Speaks: HIV & TB News, an interview with Fogarty Deputy Director Michael P. Johnson, MD
  • The Associated Press via The Washington Times, US funding to train 140,000 African health workers - March 8, 2011
  • Mail & Guardian, US funding to train 140 000 African healthcare workers - March 9, 2011
• Gaps in Research, an essay by Fogarty staff Robert Eiss and Dr. Roger I. Glass - GLOBAL HEALTH, Winter 2011

February 2011

• USAID’s Shah says science key to global health gains
• Fogarty program saves lives amid Egyptian turmoil
• Focus on Cancer
• Cancer takes growing toll in developing world
• Partnerships aim to build cancer expertise abroad
• Researchers advance cancer care in Bangladesh
• Considering culture when providing cancer care
• Guest opinion: Health diplomacy: where science meets culture, by Dr Jorge Gomez
• Russians seek further collaboration with Fogarty
• Research in viral disease aims at ending malaria
• President requests small increase for Fogarty
• QDDR: USAID role in global health is enhanced
• PEPFAR adopting implementation science
• U.S., Russia team in polio eradication effort
• UNESCO’s science report 2010
• Global health briefs February 2011
• People in the news February 2011
• U.S. Program Helping Save Lives in Egypt - MedPage Today, February 3, 2011, discusses Fogarty-funded trauma programs in Egypt
• Egypt's Medical Front Lines: First Frantic, then Calm - MedPage Today, February 3, 2011, discusses Fogarty-funded trauma programs in Egypt

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