Fogarty International Center newsletter articles and press releases - 2011

December 2011

• Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls for evidence-based efforts to defeat AIDS
• Focus on Bioethics
• Bioethics: protecting lives in service to research
• Bioethics takes root in Nigeria
• Trainee to teacher: Leveraging bioethics learning in India
• NIH Common Fund supports bioethics study, training
• Examining the connections between climate change and diarrheal disease
• Fogarty scholar paves career path in India
• Sparking a career combating HIV/AIDS in Cambodia
• NIH aids effort to produce meningitis vaccine for Africa
• CDC combats global infectious disease threats
• Q and A with Dr E William Colglazier, Science and Technology Adviser to the US Secretary of State
• A research agenda for indoor air pollution: opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Congressman Fogarty's widow dies
• Former Fogarty Director Dr Philip E Schambra is remembered
• Inaugural US-Russia Scientific Forum held in Moscow
• Global health briefs - December 2011
• People in the news - December 2011
• Nurturing the Global Workforce in Clinical Research: The National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Clinical Scholars and Fellows Program - The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, December 2011
• News from NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins's trip to India
• A microscopic view - Hindustan Times, December 4, 2011
• All human beings are one big family - The Times of India, December 4, 2011
• Fogarty ICBG Grantee News: Scientists in Sulawesi Discover New Species Hidden in Mountains - Jakarta Globe, December 1, 2011
• Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass on World AIDS Day: Building developing country capacity is key in the battle against HIV/AIDS, Breakthroughs, a blog by the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC), December 1, 2011

November 2011

• UF receives $1.1 million to support behavioral health training, research partnerships in India - University of Florida News, November 28, 2011
• Weigh Disease Eradication Campaigns With Broader Health Goals, Experts Say at AAAS, featuring Fogarty Acting Deputy Director Dr. Joshua Rosenthal - News from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), November 18, 2011

October 2011

• Obituary: Luise R. Fogarty, global health advocate and widow of late congressman John E. Fogarty - Providence Journal, October 21, 2011
• Fogarty Framework grant supports Duke e-library training for developing country researchers - Duke Global Health Institute News, October 25, 2011
• Malaria vaccine shows promise - Philadelphia Inquirer, October 19, 2011
• First Results of Phase 3 Trial of RTS,S/AS01 Malaria Vaccine in African Children - The New England Journal of Medicine, October 18, 2011
• Inefficient developing world stoves contribute to 2 million deaths a year - NIH News, October 14, 2011
• A Major Environmental Cause of Death - Science Policy Forum, October 14, 2011
• NIH launches research program to explore health effects from climate change - NIH News, October 6, 2011
• Fogarty Funds Continued Research in Suicide Prevention in China - University of Rochester Medical Center News Release, October 5, 2011

September 2011

• Knaul Urges World To Close the Cancer Divide - NIH Record Newsletter, September 30, 2011
• Fogarty-supported UCLA scientists find H1N1 flu virus prevalent in animals in Africa - UCLA News Release, September 22, 2011
• Call to action on drug-resistant malaria - Fogarty News, September 21, 2011
• Are Pigs Bringing the Flu to Your State? Fogarty Researcher Maps Influenza Spread by Hogs - Scientific American, September 21, 2011
• Accelerating progress on non-communicable diseases, co-authored by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass in The Lancet, September 19, 2011
• Fogarty supported study finds early HIV treatment cost-effective in resource-limited settings from PLoS Medicine September 20, 2011
• UN meets on chronic, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), adopts declaration on prevention
• Shining a spotlight on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs): opinion by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass
• Q and A with NHLBI Acting Director Dr. Susan Shurin
• Focus on Chronic Diseases
• Chronic, non-communicable diseases (NCDs): A silent scourge threatening to overwhelm global health
• Fogarty funds new non-communicable disease programs
• Reducing the guesswork and cost of rating heart disease
• Inexpensive polypills may add years for heart patients
• The chronic challenge of household air pollution
• Confronting South Asia's diabetes epidemic
• Changing the color of the rice bowl to beat diabetes
• India residents build park, exercise more to reduce diabetes risk
• Building the capacity to battle cancer
• Former Fogarty Director Dr. Phillip E. Schambra dies
• Solving a math puzzle to stop infectious disease
• Fogarty supports zoonotic disease research in Tanzania
• Lessons learned from history's influenza pandemics
• Syrian Tobacco Center rated most productive in research
• The promise of rotavirus vaccine in developing nations
• Call for new research to slow drug-resistant diseases
• Italy and US reach drug abuse research accord
• African genetics and nursing funding opportunities released
• Global health briefs - September 2011
• People in the news - September 2011
• Fogarty director Dr. Roger I. Glass previews UN summit on NCDs for State Department, from State Department's IIP Digital newsfeed, September 6, 2011
• BMJ Editor Fiona Godlee presents "Lessons from the MMR scare" on September 6, 2011

July 2011

• Non-communicable disease (NCD) panel highlights need for comprehensive solutions
• Arab Spring provides new opportunities for US collaborations with Egypt
• New research details spread of swine flu virus
• Domesticated foxes provide insight into human behavior
• Focus on the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
• About NIAID
• HIV/AIDS: 30 years of hard-won victories
• Q and A with NIAID Director Dr. Anthony S. Fauci
• NTDs and the skewed burden of disease
• Research targets new diagnostics, drugs and vaccines for TB
• NIAID-funded centers seek to enhance malaria control
• Basis for key parasite function in malaria found
• ICER program fosters research collaborations in developing countries
• Centers expand global reach of influenza research
• NIAID funding and training for foreign scientists and institutions
• Giant steps in the battle against HIV/AIDS: opinion by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass
• Focusing on new medicines for the developing world
• Ambassador Goosby's long view on the fight against HIV/AIDS
• First Lady Michelle Obama visits Fogarty grantee in Botswana
• Global health briefs - August 2011
• People in the news - August 2011
• HHS announces proposal to improve rules protecting human research subjects - HHS News Release, July 22, 2011
• Fogarty grantee and former trainee work to improve mental health in Indonesia [Video] - PBS Newshour, July 18, 2011
• Renewal grants for HIV/AIDS programs awarded - Fogarty News, July 11, 2011
• Fogarty awards new bioethics grants - Fogarty News, July 11, 2011
• Fogarty funds new and ongoing trauma research - Fogarty News, July 11, 2011
• Thinking globally to improve mental health: NIH announces international research initiative - NIH News Release, July 6, 2011
• Related publication: Grand challenges in global mental health - article from nature.com, July 6, 2011

June 2011

• Fogarty supported scientists work to slow the spread of drug-resistant disease organisms from Penn State Science News, June 22, 2011
• Moscow talks further US-Russia scientific collaboration
• A Russian spring for research: opinion by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass
• Global Health Initiative (GHI) administrative supplements available
• Focus on Trauma
• Taking trauma care and injury prevention to the next level
• Seeds of progress in Chinese agriculture
• Developing injury research in Guatemala
• Driving Ghana to a safer future
• National Library of Medicine (NLM) puts 175 years in the books
• African journals partnership moves forward
• RAPIDD program veteran tracks viruses transmitted by bats
• Cookstove workshop targets research gaps, priorities
• Multiplying the impact of reproductive health research
• Mexican flu study by Fogarty supports social distancing
• Q and A with USAID's science chief Dr. Alex Dehgan
• Smoking ban in China follows Fogarty-supported work
• mHealth gaining, but still limited to small projects
• Global health briefs - June 2011
• People in the news - June 2011

May 2011

• Mexican flu pandemic study supports social distancing, Fogarty research published in PLoS Medicine - Fogarty press release, May 24, 2011
• Closing Schools Seems to Prevent Flu's Spread - U.S. News and World Report, May 24, 2011
• Characterizing the Epidemiology of the 2009 Influenza A/H1N1 Pandemic in Mexico - PLoS Medicine, May 24, 2011

April 2011

• The Foundation for the NIH and Fogarty Launch First U.S.-Russia Scientific Forum Planning Meeting to Advance Research Collaborations - April 20, 2011 from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH)
• Africa's medical educators gather for historic meeting
• More on the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI):
• Q and A with MEPI grantee Dr. Emilia Noormahomed
• New hope for African medical education: guest 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 April 2011
• People in the news April 2011

March 2011

• News on the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) launch:

• News from MEPI partner University of Cape Town

• NIH visit to [University of Cape Town] Faculty hailed a success - March 12, 2011
• Balancing hype and hope is the challenge for genome science - March 11, 2011
• NIH's Collins: New opportunities for global health research in Africa - March 14, 2011, Science Speaks: HIV and TB News, an interview with NIH Director Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD
• New U.S. program puts African scientists in charge - March 11, 2011, Science Speaks: HIV and TB News, an interview with Fogarty Deputy Director Michael P. Johnson, MD
• The Associated Press via The Washington Times, US funding to train 140,000 African health workers - March 8, 2011
• Mail and Guardian, US funding to train 140 000 African healthcare workers - March 9, 2011
• Gaps in Research, an essay by Fogarty staff Robert Eiss and Dr. Roger I. Glass - GLOBAL HEALTH, Winter 2011

February 2011

• USAID's Shah says science key to global health gains
• Fogarty program saves lives amid Egyptian turmoil
• Focus on Cancer
• Cancer takes growing toll in developing world
• Partnerships aim to build cancer expertise abroad
• Researchers advance cancer care in Bangladesh
• Considering culture when providing cancer care
• Guest opinion: Health diplomacy: where science meets culture, by Dr Jorge Gomez
• Russians seek further collaboration with Fogarty
• Research in viral disease aims at ending malaria
• President requests small increase for Fogarty
• QDDR: USAID role in global health is enhanced
• PEPFAR adopting implementation science
• U.S., Russia team in polio eradication effort
• UNESCO's science report 2010
• Global health briefs February 2011
• People in the news February 2011
• U.S. Program Helping Save Lives in Egypt - MedPage Today, February 3, 2011, discusses Fogarty-funded trauma programs in Egypt
• Egypt's Medical Front Lines: First Frantic, then Calm - MedPage Today, February 3, 2011, discusses Fogarty-funded trauma programs in Egypt
  
  

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