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International Malaria Research Training Program (IMRTP)
Purpose
The International Malaria Research Training program was developed by the Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to train or expand the capabilities of scientists and health professionals from malaria endemic developing countries, to engage in malaria research. It supports the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) which was established at a meeting in Dakar, Senegal, in January 1997 by malaria experts from sub-Saharan Africa and other countries. FIC's malaria training program supports U.S. malaria researchers in building malaria research capability in endemic developing countries through collaborative training efforts, especially in Africa, to address the scientific priorities identified at the Dakar Conference. The programs provide research training in malaria pathogenesis, epidemiology, vector biology, immunology and vaccines, anti-malarial drugs, and clinical practice.
In an effort to further extend the activities supported by the MIM and FIC, an additional RFA was issued in 2001 to focus on the specific need to understand the basis of severe anemia related to malaria infection that was identified as a scientific priority at the Dakar Conference. These programs incorporate a number of long- and short-term opportunities to provide multidisciplinary research training for endemic country scientists and clinicians in areas such as clinical tropical medicine, hematology, immunology and genetics relevant to understanding the pathogenesis of severe malarial anemia to achieve this goal.
Inquiries
Decisions about whom to accept for training are made by the program directors. All current program directors have developed collaborative activities with specific countries, with major collaborations indicated above. The relevant U.S. program director should be contacted for country-specific information, necessary qualifications, eligibility, and application procedures.
Program Directors/U.S. Institutions/Collaborating Countries
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Johns Hopkins University
School of Public Health
The W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
615 North Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21205
TEL: (410) 955-7177
FAX: (410) 955-0105
Short Term Training Courses to Strengthen Malaria Research and Control Capacity
Zimbabwe
Training/Research: transmission blocking immunity, vector biology, molecular parasitology and epidemiology, and drug resistance |
Center for Vaccine Development
University of Maryland, Baltimore
685 West Baltimore Street, Room 480
Baltimore, MD 21201
TEL: (410) 706-5328
FAX: (410) 706-6205
Mali
Training/Research: Drug resistance, clinical trials, epidemiology, and vector biology |
Department of Epidemiology of Parasitic Diseases
FMPOS / University of Mali
BP 1805, Point G
Bamako, Mali, West Africa
Tel/Fax 223-22-1809
Eligibility Requirement: Students and recent graduates of the Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Odonto-Stomatology at the University of Mali, Bamako Mali. |
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University of California, San Francisco
Division of Infectious Diseases
Box 0811
San Francisco, CA 94143-0811
TEL: (415) 206-8845
FAX: (415) 648-8425
Uganda
Training/Research: Drug resistance, clinical studies, epidemiology, and molecular parasitology |
Harvard School of Public Health
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
665 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
TEL: (617) 432-1563
FAX: (617) 432-4766
Senegal
Training/Research: Molecular epidemiology, HIV and malaria immunity, infected red cell biology, and vector biology |
State University of New York at Buffalo
Department of Biological Sciences
Cooke 109
Buffalo, NY 14260
TEL: (716) 645-2883
FAX: (716) 645-2975
Kenya
Training/Research: Vector biology |
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Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
4 Nickerson Street Suite 200
Seattle, WA 98109-1651
TEL: (206) 284-8846
FAX: (206) 284-0313
Tanzania
Training/Research: Maternal malaria, child malaria |
Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
University of Pittsburgh
Graduate School of Public Health
130 DeSoto St.
603 Parran Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
TEL: (412) 624-5894
FAX: (412) 624-4953
Kenya
Training/Research: Malaria anemia |
Immunology Institute
Universidad del Valle
Calle 4B No. 36-00 San Fernando
Cali, COLOMBIA
TEL: 57-2-558-3937
FAX: 57-2-558-1061
Latin America
Training/Research: Malaria anemia, clinical malaria |
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Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Harkness Pavilion, Room HP 568
180 Fort Washington Avenue
New York, NY 10032-3795
TEL: (212) 305-7005
FAX: (212) 305-8408
Thailand
Training/Research: Severe malarial anemia, hematology, malaria |
US Army Medical Research Unit, Kenya
Unit 64109
APO AE 09831-4109
Tel +254-35-22942
Fax +254-35-22903
Kenya
Training: Pediatric malaria research fellowship.
Research: Severe malaria, molecular pathogenesis of severe malarial anemia and cerebral malaria |
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Updated July 2008
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