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Global Health Fellows & Scholars 20th Anniversary

Fogarty's flagship Global Health Fellows and Scholars program, now known as LAUNCH, is celebrating its 20th Anniversary! To mark the occasion, Fogarty hosted a commemorative event on Thursday, April 13, 2023.

Event Details

Watch: Recorded video of the event

Agenda

8:30 a.m.–Welcome & Introductions

UnJa Hayes–LAUNCH Program Officer

8:40 a.m.–Keynote Address

Roger Glass–Former Director, Fogarty International Center

9:00 a.m.–Then and Now: Moving Beyond Early Career

Moderators

Leonardo Cubillos–Director, Center for Global Mental Health Research, NIMH
George A. Mensah–Director, Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science, NHLBI

Alumni

Anubha Agarwal–Assistant Professor and Co-director, Global Cardiovascular Health Program, Washington University
Roxanna Garcia–Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University
Yvetot Joseph–Research Physician and Research Coordinator, GHESKIO Centers, Haiti
Ashley Karczewski–Resident, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center; Research Consultant, Timothy A. DeRouen Center for Global Oral Health, University of Washington School of Dentistry
Andrew Kim–Assistant Professor, Unversity of California, Berkeley
Joseph Matovu–Senior Lecturer, Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Uganda; Senior Research Associate, Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda
Siana Nkya–Senior Lecturer, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania
Ivan Segawa–Researcher, Makerere University, Uganda

10:10 a.m.–Break

10:40 a.m.–Then and Now: A Discussion with Later-Career Alumni

Moderators

Walter Koroshetz–Director, NINDS
Satish Gopal–Director, Center for Global Health, NCI

Alumni

Nauzley Abedini–Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle
Jacqueline Firth–Branch Chief, Pediatric and Maternal Clinical HIV Branch, USAID
Eric Nelson–Assistant Professor, University of Florida (UF) Department of Pediatrics; Faculty member, UF Emerging Pathogens Institute
Christine Sekaggya-Wiltshire–Director, TB and HIV Clinic, Infectious Diseases Institute Makerere University, Uganda
Omar Siddiqi–Director, Global Neurology Program, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Visiting Lecturer, University of Zambia School of Medicine
Weiming Tang–Co-director, UNC Project-China; Advisor, SESH Global
Richard van Zyl-Smit–Consultant Pulmonologist, Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa; Deputy Head, Division of Pulmonology, University of Cape Town Lung Institute, South Africa

11:50 a.m.–Concluding Thoughts

Sten Vermund–Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Public Health

11:55 a.m.–Closing Remarks

Peter Kilmarx–Acting Director, Fogarty International Center

About the Global Health Fellows & Scholars/LAUNCH Program

The Fellows and Scholars program, established in 2003, aims to foster the next generation of global health scientists by providing trainees, early in their careers, a one-year mentored research training experience at established biomedical and behavioral research institutions and project sites in (LMICs) as well as opportunities for post-professional trainees from the U.S. and LMICs.

Updated April 19, 2023