March/April 2011 Global Health Matters Newsletter

Global Health Matters, Fogarty International Center's newsletter, includes the latest information on global health research, and is published by the Office of Communications. The newsletter is distributed by email every two months.

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Inside this Issue

• Africa’s medical educators gather for historic meeting
  • More on the Medical Education Partnership Inititive (MEPI):
• Q & A with MEPI grantee Dr. Emilia Noormahomed
• New hope for African medical education: opinion by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass
• Fogarty hosts global health advocate Crisp
• Focus on Addiction
• The global health cost of addiction
• Researching the roots of addiction in Yemen
• Meth takes a toll in South Africa
• Anti-smoking programs target Indian youth
• Brain drain: heroin use in Bulgaria
• NIH aids stricken Chile, Haiti with equipment loans
• Something new under the sea: promising malaria treatment found in Fiji
• New website to assist unfunded NIH applicants
• Implementation science experts push the envelope
• Lois Quam details Global Health Initiative strategy
• Global health briefs
• People in the news