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July / August 2015
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U.S. and Chinese health officials met on the NIH campus in June to discuss Ebola and global health security, renewing a longstanding commitment to collaborate.
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New awards through Fogarty's eCapacity initiative will support innovative programs to better integrate ICT into research and training in low-resource settings.
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Fogarty has launched the Emerging Global Leader program, a new junior faculty career development award to support scientists in low- and middle-income countries.
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The NIH and global partners are supporting multiple studies to pave the way for treatments and vaccines for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
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NIH's National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) supports international scientists as they make vital research discoveries and build much needed expertise in low-resource countries.
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Prevention research supported by NIDA and Fogarty has helped Vietnam limit the spread of HIV from drug users to the wider population.
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NIDA-supported researchers have designed programs targeting couples, female sex workers and youth to help reduce the impact of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases in Kazakhstan.
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NIDA and Fogarty have funded several projects to produce data, test interventions and develop Argentine expertise in tobacco research.
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As a Fogarty Fellow, Dr. Jennifer Syvertsen measured patterns of drug injection and HIV risk in the Nyanza Province of Kenya.
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Also in This Issue
E-news exclusives
- Vacancy Announcement: Director, Fogarty Division of International Training and Research
Submit applications by August 1, 2014. Open until filled.
- Investigational aerosolized Ebola vaccine shows promise in nonhuman primates
NIAID/NIH news, July 13, 2015
- MEPI grantee publication: Medical education departments: a study of four medical schools in sub-Saharan Africa
BME Medical Education, July 1, 2015
- Focus on foreign investigators: eligibility requirements for NIAID-supported infectious diseases research
NIAID Funding News, July 1, 2015
- Valuing stillbirths, co-authored by Fogarty staff scientist, Dr. Joseph Millum
Bioethics, July 2015
- NCATS-FDA team receives HHS Innovation Ventures support to crowdsource information on treating tropical diseases
NCATS/NIH news, June 2015
- Umbilical cord ‘milking’ improves blood flow in preterm infants
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)/NIH news, June 29, 2015
- Study of Ebola survivors opens in Liberia: trial to examine long-term health effects of Ebola virus disease
NIAID/NIH news, June 17, 2015
- Efficacy of fewer than three doses of an HPV-16/18 AS04-adjuvanted vaccine: combined analysis of data from the Costa Rica Vaccine and PATRICIA trials
The Lancet Oncology, published online June 9, 2015
- Stemming the tide of fake medicines
New York Times editorial, May 18, 2015
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July 18 - 23, 2015
Alzheimer's Association International Conference
Washington, DC July 19 - 22, 2015
IAS 2015: Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention
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