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
September 13, 2016
Stone House, Building 16, NIH Campus
9:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.
Director's Update and Discussion of Current and Planned FIC Activities
- Dr. Roger Glass
- CGHS Update: Ms. Nalini Anand
10:00 A.M. – 10:30 A.M.
Program Concepts:
- BRAIN Disorders (R01, R21)
Dr. Kathy Michels
Program Officer, Division of International Training and Research (DITR), FIC
- Partnership Initiative for Health Professional Education and Research in Selected PEPFAR countries (next phase of the MEPI program)
Dr. Flora Katz
Acting Director, DITR, FIC
10:30 A.M. – 10:45 A.M.
Coffee Break
10:45 A.M. – 12:15 P.M.
Building Global Health Research Careers – FIC’s International Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA)
- Dr. Christine Jessup
Program Officer, DITR, FIC
- Dr. Rachel Sturke
Deputy Division Director and Senior Scientist, Division of International Science Program Planning and Evaluation (DISPPE), FIC
- Ms. Celia Wolfman
Global Health Research and Policy Analyst, DISPPE, FIC
- Dr. Jeffrey M. Bethony
Professor, Vice-Chair for Translational Research, Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine & AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource (ACSR), School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University
- Dr. Mina Hosseinipour
Research Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, Scientific Director, UNC Project-Malawi
- Dr. Rajesh Vedanthan
Assistant Professor, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Department of Medicine, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
12:15 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.
Lunch
1:00 P.M. - 1:45 P.M.
Global Mental Health Research Update
- Dr. Pamela Collins
Director, Office for Research on Disparities and Global Mental Health
Director, Office of Rural Mental Health Research, NIMH
1:45 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.
Global Health Research at NIH
- Dr. Francis Collins
Director, NIH
2:30 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.
Closing Comments
3:00 P.M.
Adjourn