Center for Global Health Studies

Topic: Childhood Obesity
Childhood Obesity Prevention Across Borders: The Promise of US-Latin American Research Collaboration
Workshop | Journal Publication
A workshop to catalyze collaborations between U.S. and Latin American scientists on childhood obesity prevention.

Topic: Stigma Reduction
Science of Stigma Reduction: New Directions for Research to Improve Health
Workshop | Journal Publication
Convening U.S. and LMIC researchers, policymakers and program implementers focused on reducing health-related stigma across disease areas, populations and settings.

Topic: HIV and Adolescent Health
Adolescent HIV Prevention and Treatment Implementation Science Alliance (AHISA)
Collaboration
Supporting implementation science to address HIV prevention, screening and treatment for adolescent girls in eligible PEPFAR countries.

Topic: Humanitarian Crises
Advancing Health Research in Humanitarian Crises
Collaboration
Convening researchers, humanitarian organizations and policymakers to share learning and strategies on conducting global health research in the context of humanitarian crises, such as armed conflict, natural disasters, forced displacement and disease outbreaks.

Topic: Emergency Care
Advancing Emergency Care Research in LMICs
Workshop | Journal Publication
Articulating barriers and solutions to conducting research in emergency or acute care settings in low- and middle-income countries.

Topic: HIV-NCDs
Enhancing HIV/AIDS Platforms to Address NCDs in sub-Saharan Africa
Collaboration | Journal Publication
An NIH / PEPFAR / LMIC collaboration of researchers, implementers and government representatives joining together to articulate goals, approaches and a research agenda to incorporate prevention, care and treatment for NCDs into HIV/AIDS platforms in LMICs.

Topic: Global Collaboration
ESSENCE on Health Research
Collaboration
Helps donors and funders identify synergies, establish coherence and increase the value of resources and action for health research.

Topic: Household Air Pollution
Clean Cooking Implementation Science Network
Collaboration | Journal Publication | Research Projects
A partnership to advance the science of uptake and scale-up of clean cooking technology in the developing world.

Topic: Brain Disorders
Learning Collaborative for Implementation Science in Global Brain Disorders
Collaboration | Journal Publication
Improving communications and collaboration between multi-disciplinary, multi-sector stakeholders with a focus on implementation science challenges related to neuro-health and brain disorders in LMICs.

Topic: Childhood Obesity
Prevention of Childhood Obesity in Latin America: Opportunities in Science and Policy
Workshop | Journal Publication
A workshop to address factors relating to childhood obesity in Latin America; and a writing retreat to work toward a series of articles addressing the state of the science, pressing research questions, models for translation of evidence into policy and program, and research capacity building priorities.

Topic: PMTCT
NIH-PEPFAR Prevention of Mother-to-child HIV Transmission (PMTCT) Implementation Science Alliance
Collaboration | Journal Publication
A project to convene implementation scientists focusing on PMTCT, PMTCT implementers, and in-country policymakers to catalyze collaboration and communication, resulting in publications in leading journals.

Topic: mHealth
Global mHealth Research Training Institute
Training
An in-person, scenario-based training institute to promote multidisciplinary research, implementation science and novel research methodologies to a cohort of researchers from diverse fields.

Topic: Scientific Journals
African Journal Partnership Program (AJPP)
Collaboration
Partnering African journals with U.S. and U.K. journals to strengthen the ability of African journal editors to disseminate scientific findings more broadly.

Topic: Brain Disorders
Brain Disorders in Low- and Middle-income Countries: a Vision for Future Research and Training
Journal Publication
A writing retreat joining U.S. and LMIC researchers to work on articles articulating the current scientific landscape and research priorities related to brain disorders. The retreat generated a collection of articles, published as a supplement to Nature.

Topic: Tobacco Control
Using Research Evidence and Capacity to Inform Tobacco Control in LMICs
Workshop | Journal Publication
A two-day workshop for leading researchers, funders, scientists, policymakers and other critical stakeholders in tobacco control on effective tobacco control policy and programs.

Topic: Bioethics
International Research Ethics: Lessons Learned and Future Priorities
Journal Publication
A gathering of Principal Investigators of Fogarty's bioethics program to plan for a collection of papers to address a range of topical and regional issues related to research ethics.

Topic: HIV-NCDs
HIV and Noncommunicable Disease Comorbidities in LMICs in the ART Era
Workshop | Journal Publication
A scientific forum to discuss the state of the science and identification of key HIV and NCD comorbidities research priorities to catalyze research collaborations and investment.

Topic: Information and Communications Technology
Global Education + Technology Health (GETHealth) Summit-IT Infrastructure Stakeholders Consultation and Planning Meetings
Collaboration
A series of consultations in partnership with Johns Hopkins to help lay the groundwork for the Global Education and Technology Health (GETHealth) Summit.

Topic: Household Air Pollution
Household Air Pollution Research Training Institute
Training
A training institute to gather U.S. and LMICs scientists interested in developing research projects on the health effects of traditional and improved cookstoves.

Topic: Child Survival
Consultation on Child Survival and Ending Preventable Child Deaths
Collaboration | Journal Publication
A consultation of child survival experts from around the world to accelerate progress in meeting child survival goals.

Topic: Mental Health
Translating the Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health into Policy and Practice
Journal Publication
A writing workshop to establish research priorities for global mental health, resulting in a series of publications on the integration of mental health services into health care delivery systems.