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February 9, 2016 Advisory Board Meeting Open Session Agenda

Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences

FIC Advisory Board Meeting
February 9, 2016
Stone House, Building 16, NIH Campus

9:00 A.M. – 10:30 A.M.

Director's Update and Discussion of Current and Planned FIC Activities

  • Dr. Roger Glass
    • CGHS Update: Ms. Nalini Anand
    • Global Fund Update: Dr. Michael Johnson
    • CSIS Perspectives on Global Health Priorities: Dr. Steve Morrison
    • IOM Study on the U.S. Commitment to Global Health: Dr. Patrick Kelley

10:30 A.M. – 10:45 A.M.

Fellows and Scholars Program Concept

  • Dr. Flora Katz, Acting Director, Division of International Training and Research, FIC

10:45 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.

Coffee Break

11:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.

Brain disorders across the lifespan Nature Supplement

  • Dr. Kathy Michels, Program Officer, DITR, FIC
  • Ms. Nalini Anand, Director, Center for Global Health Studies, FIC
  • Dr. Donald Silberberg, Professor, Dept. of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
  • Dr. Rajesh N. Kalaria, Professor of Cerebrovascular Pathology (Neuropathology), Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University

Discussants:

    • Dr. Wilson Compton, Deputy Director, NIDA
    • Dr. Patricia Powell, Acting Deputy Director, NIAAA
    • Dr. Ken Warren, Senior Consultant to the NIAAA Director

12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.

Lunch

1:00 P.M. - 2:45 P.M.

Accomplishments of Fogarty's International Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity Building Program: A New Concept

  • Dr. Marya Levintova, Program Director, TOBAC Program, DITR, FIC
  • Dr. Kristie Foley, Professor and Program Leader, Cancer Prevention and Control, Wake Forest University; Building Capacity for Tobacco Research in Romania
  • Dr. Jim Thrasher, Associate Professor, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina; Cinema Smoking and Youth Smoking in Latin America (Co-PI)
  • Dr. Michele Bloch, Chief, TCRB Tobacco Control Research Branch (TCRB), Behavioral Research Program (BRP), NCI
  • Dr. Wilson Compton, Deputy Director, NIDA
  • Dr. David Abrams, Executive Director, Steven A. Schroeder National Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies, Legacy
  • Dr. Joanna Cohen, Director, Institute for Global Tobacco Control, John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Discussion moderated by Dr. Steve Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

2:45 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Closing Comments

  • Dr. Roger Glass

3:00 P.M.

  • Adjourn