Trans-NIH effort launched on global health

The Trans-NIH Global Health Research Working Group, formed to analyze global health research activities at NIH and explore better ways to coordinate efforts, holds its inaugural session.
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PHOTO: Dr. Francis Collins, seated at a panel table in a conference room to the right of two women, speaks into a microphone, with people seated in rows of chairs behind him.

GRAPHIC: A section of a still image of a ribbon diagram of hemagglutinin molecule, captured from a 3D video. On a black background, a complex, overlapping collection of long green cylinders, short green cylinders, light blue threads, and tan arrows.

New approach could speed flu vaccine

NIH scientists have developed a way to drastically cut the time needed to mass produce flu vaccines by cloning the protective antigen protein and growing it in bacteria instead of eggs.
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"Stars are aligned" for global health

For global health programs at universities these may be the best of times – a confluence of public support, funding for new policy initiatives, and an alliance of universities to strengthen a field that students are demanding in unprecedented numbers.
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PHOTO: Ambassador Eric Goosby speaks into a microphone at a podium, with a small segment of a slide projected in the background.

PHOTO: A Kenyan woman holding a baby holds up a blue and white patient ID card.

Informatics Training Grants awarded

Seeking to increase informatics expertise in low- and middle-income countries, Fogarty has awarded more than $9.23 million to eight global health informatics programs over the next five years.
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Recovery Act supports Challenge Grants

Fogarty has awarded five NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research with Recovery Act funds for diverse studies in chronic diseases, climate change, emerging technologies and the effect of cultural beliefs on health.
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PHOTO: A group of women in Bangladesh, dressed in colorful robes and headscarves, wash laundry in a pool of murky water, with buildings in the background.

PHOTO: Dr. Roger I. Glass, Director Dr. Francis Collins, and Dr. Patricia Garcia, all smiling, speak together.

Campuses embracing global health

Enrollment in global health programs in universities across the United States and Canada doubled in just three years, according to a survey of 37 institutions conducted by the Consortium of Universities for Global Health.
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Save the Date: Barmes Lecture at NIH

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - Dr. Julio Frenk, the Dean, Harvard School of Public Health, gives the 2009 David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture on the NIH campus. Read more.

Fogarty Funding Opportunities

Ecology of Infectious Diseases Initiative - Deadline December 9, 2009
Global Research Initiative Program, Basic/Biomedical Research Award (GRIP-BB) (R01) - Deadline December 18, 2009
Fogarty International Research Collaboration, Basic/Biomedical Research Award (FIRCA-BB) (R03) - Deadline January 28, 2010
All Fogarty Funding Opportunities

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