Fogarty International Center newsletter articles and press releases - 2013

December 2013

• Top NIH global health research news stories of 2013 - Fogarty news, December 31, 2013
• Fogarty supported New York State International HIV Training and Research Program (NYS-ITRP) celebrates 20 years - December 20, 2013
• Researchers Identify Genetic Marker of Resistance to Key Malaria Drug - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) news, December 18, 2013
• Related publication information: PubMed info on A molecular marker of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria, published online in Nature on December 18, 2013
• Bill Gates celebrates research collaborations with NIH - Fogarty news, December 4, 2013
• Recorded webcast: Bill Gates presents the 2013 David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture: Why the Future Needs Biomedical Innovation [Video]
  December 2, 2013

November 2013

• Bill Gates to deliver 2013 Barmes lecture at NIH
• The road ahead for PEPFAR: Q and A with Ambassador Eric Goosby
• NIH programs build synergy, capacity in Africa
• WHO's Chan urges greater focus on chronic diseases
• Fogarty funding spurs global health innovations
• Focus on global tobacco use:
• Fogarty considers evolving global tobacco landscape
• We must do more to discourage global tobacco use: Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Profile: Fulbright-Fogarty Fellow Navid Shams analyzes long-term outcomes in ICU patients in Peru
• Fogarty funds ecology, genetics studies of malaria in Ghana
• NIDA Director Dr Nora D Volkow discusses addiction with the Dalai Lama
• People in the news - November 2013
• Global health briefs - November 2013
• Researchers suggest phased flu vaccination for China
• Fogarty researchers suggest China consider national flu vaccination plan with staggered timing
  NIH news, November 19, 2013
• Related publication: Characterization of Regional Influenza Seasonality Patterns in China and Implications for Vaccination Strategies: Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Surveillance Data
  PLOS Medicine, November 19, 2013
• Chinese, Americans Research Flu Patterns and Prevention
  IIP Digital from State Department, November 25, 2013
• NIH launches trial of investigational genital herpes vaccine - NIH news, November 8, 2013
• Grantee news: Belarusian University and Union Graduate College Cooperate on New, Online [Bioethics] Course - Union Graduate College news, November 4, 2013

October 2013

• Chinese bats likely source of SARS virus, researchers report
  Fogarty news, October 30, 2013
• New SARS-like Coronavirus Discovered in Chinese Horseshoe Bats
  EcoHealth Alliance news, October 30, 2013
• Fogarty awards $7M in global health innovation grants
  Fogarty news, October 29, 2013
• Grantee news: University of Florida receives new grant to address zoonotic diseases in Mongolia - University of Florida news, November 6, 2013
• Grantee news: Nigerian universities get biomedical engineering programs, Northwestern [University] sets up programs to develop HIV/AIDS testing and treatment products
  Northwestern University news, November 4, 2013
• Grantee news: Can food production increase without disease risk?
  Michigan State University news, November 1, 2013
• Grantee news: University of Georgia researcher receives NIH grant to improve women's health in Liberia
  University of Georgia news, October 22, 2013
• African medical schools see profound culture change
• NIH Clinical Center 60th anniversary:
• NIH Clinical Center celebrates 60 years of research
• Researchers at Clinical Center show mouse virus may cause breast cancer in humans
• Focus on the Human Microbiome Project: Research shows promise, may result in treatments
• Evaluating Fogarty's impact: Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Dr Glass presents at Oct 2013 NIH Scientific Management Review Board: What does the US have to gain from investments in global health research? [Video]
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Robin Petroze studies Rwanda's surgical capacity
• Role of gender in global health researcher: Q and A with Dr Janine Clayton, Director, NIH Office of Research on Women's Health
• Disease mapping is critical planning tool for researchers
• Malaria vaccine is safe, effective
• Researchers study human dynamics to track bird flu
• Fogarty marks namesake's 100-year milestone
• Global health briefs - October 2013
• People in the news - October 2013
• Institute of Medicine elects 70 new members, 10 foreign associates, Fogarty grantees and collaborators among those elected
  IOM news release, October 21, 2013

September 2013

• Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease grants support research on disease transmission: Awards fund studies of how diseases spread among humans, other animals and the environment - National Science Foundation news, September 30, 2013
• Fogarty awards $22M through new HIV research training program - Fogarty news, September 25, 2013
• Fogarty grantee news: Johns Hopkins HIV/AIDS Experts Awarded More Than $5 Million in Fogarty Training Grants for India and Africa - Johns Hopkins Medicine news, November 12, 2013
• Fogarty grantee news: Duke-KCMC HIV research training program funded by US government - Duke Global Health Institute news, September 30, 2013
• Fogarty grantee news: Dartmouth Medical Researchers Receive 5-Year NIH Fogarty Grant Establishing First HIV-TB Research Institute in East Africa - Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine News, September 9, 2013
• Postponed > Bill Gates to present 2013 Barmes global health lecture on October 7, 2013 at NIH
• With MEPI support University of Botswana School of Medicine and Ministry of Health developed symptom-cased primary care guidelines - University of Botswana news, September 20, 2013
• Fogarty awards new infectious disease research training grants - Fogarty News, September 6, 2013
• Grantee news: NIH Fogarty Center funds Ethiopia-Emory TB Research Training Program - Emory news, September 19, 2013
• Viewpoint by Fogarty Dir Dr Roger I Glass: What the United States has to gain from global health research - Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), September 4, 2013

August 2013

• Fogarty grantee news: Case Western Center for Global Health and Diseases' growth adds jobs in Cleveland, as researchers work to eradicate illnesses worldwide - cleveland.com, August 29, 2013
• Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) grantee news: Researchers study dynamics of workers at poultry farms and markets to track bird flu - Stanford School of Medicine news, August 19, 2013
• Fogarty Brain Disorders grantee news - The War Inside: fighting depression in Palestine [includes Video], The Verge, August 20, 2013
• Fogarty awards 2013 bioethics grants - Fogarty news, August 19, 2013
• New door opens in the effort to stave off mosquito-borne diseases - NIGMS Biomedical Beat blog, August 16, 2013
• Investigational Malaria Vaccine Found Safe and Protective: NIH Vaccine Researchers Publish Results of Early-Stage Clinical Trial - NIH / NIAID news release, August 8, 2013

July 2013

• Fogarty grantee news: Evaluating institutional capacity for research ethics in Africa: a case study from Botswana - BMC Medical Ethics via PubMed, July 30, 2013
• PEER Health grants:
• Fogarty news: USAID, NIH announce global health research collaboration awards
• USAID news: USAID and NIH announce 16 new health research projects - USAID News Release, July 23, 2013
• PEPFAR celebrates a decade of helping prevent AIDS deaths
• Marking 10 years of PEPFAR's accomplishments: opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Focus: Mental health must be integrated into care delivery
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Ramnath Subbaraman examines mental health in Indian slums
• Chronic disease battle needs global collaboration
• Nations vote unanimously to fight chronic disease
• NIH grants cut by 5 percent due to sequestration
• Q and A with Dr Sally J Rockey, NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research
• US, Russia continue to forge research collaborations
• African science journals and paper submissions grow
• Research must validate cleaner cookstoves
• Global health briefs - July 2013
• People in the news - July 2013
• Fogarty grantee news: African Fever Patients Commonly Over-diagnosed With Malaria - Duke Global Health Institute News, July 18, 2013
• Related journal article: Etiology of Severe Non-malaria Febrile Illness in Northern Tanzania: A Prospective Cohort Study - PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, July 18, 2013
• NIH World REPORT - A database on global health research in Africa - The Lancet Global Health July 5, 2013

June 2013

• Household Air Pollution in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Health Risks and Research Priorities - PLOS Medicine, June 4, 2013
• Cervical Cancer: paradigms at home and abroad [in India] - National Cancer Institute news, June 2, 2013
• Fact sheet: Impact of Sequestration on the National Institutes of Health - NIH News, June 3, 2013

May 2013

• FDA acts against compromised antimalarial drugs
• New Indian rotavirus vaccine provides hope: opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Focus on genomics and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI):
• Genomics breakthroughs mount to fight disease
• Africa's genetic diversity holds promise
• Fogarty-funded scientists help clarify dengue risk
• Changes needed to address AIDS as a chronic illness
• Initiative seeks to reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission
• Data use key in fighting child pneumonia, diarrhea
• Fogarty welcomes new advisory board members
• Q and A with Ambassador Leslie V Rowe, Office of Global Health Diplomacy, Dept of State
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Mark Siedner adapts medical practices in Uganda
• Examining ethics in study recruitment manipulation
• NCI's Varmus visits Fogarty Fellows, Scholars in China
• Obama plan aims to unlock secrets of the brain
• Global health briefs - May 2013
• People in the news - May 2013
• Learning from disasters to save lives every day in Pakistan - The Lancet, May 17, 2013
• New rotavirus vaccine provides hope: opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass - May 2013
• ROTAVAC clinical trial results news release, fact sheets and media statements from PATH project site, defeatDD.org, May 14, 2013
• Indian scientists see cheap rotavirus vaccine as start of homegrown drug industry - Deutsche Welle (DW), May 24, 2013
• The making of Rotavac - Livemint.com, May 20, 2013
• India clears path for new, more affordable rotavirus vaccine - GlobalPost, May 17, 2013
• India develops new vaccine against diarrhoea [Video] - New Delhi Television (NDTV), May 14, 2013
• Results of the ROTAVAC Rotavirus Vaccine Study in India
  Statement of Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Director, NIAID, May 14, 2013
• Background: The Neonatal Rotavirus Vaccine Project (Strain 116E) Rotavac: A Brief Review for the 25th Anniversary of the Indo-US Vaccine Action Program (VAP) by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• NIDA and INSERM forge new collaboration on the neuroscience of addiction - National Institute on Drug Abuse news, May 14, 2013
• NIH Fiscal Policy for Grant Awards FY 2013 (NOT-OD-13-064) - May 8, 2013
• Fogarty Brain Disorders grantee news: Rutgers Graduate Student Joman Natsheh Selected As International Neuroscience Fellow - Rutgers News, May 6, 2013

April 2013

• FDA launches partnership to protect against counterfeit anti-malarial medicines with FDA-developed handheld detection tool - FDA News, April 24, 2013
• Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) 2013 meeting:
• Partnerships, capacity building needed to strengthen universities in developing nations
• NIH pursuing unprecedented opportunities in global health
• News from CUGH 2013 meeting: US Plays Unique Role in Fighting Deadliest Diseases [Video] - Voice of America, April 10, 2013
• Information and communications technology (ICT) research:
• Fogarty launches eCapacity program to spur technology use
• Realizing ICT's promise for global research, training: opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• GETHealth summit mulls widening technology use
• Q and A with Dr Christopher P Austin, NCATS director
• US and India advance diabetes research plans
• India research agency transitions to new director
• Focus on moving science to policy more quickly:
• Scientists must transfer findings to practice
• Smoking research influenced policy in Hungary
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Evelyn Hsieh studies bone loss and cancer in China
• Congressman John Edward Fogarty: a good life
• Global health briefs - April 2013
• People in the news - April 2013
• Fogarty AITRP grantee news: UB helps to launch two Zimbabwe national programs in nanotechnology and HIV/AIDS eradication - University at Buffalo news, April 5, 2013
• Climate Change, Human Health, and Biomedical Research: Analysis of the National Institutes of Health Research Portfolio
  Environmental Health Perspectives, April 2013

March 2013

• Training and Capacity Building: Dr. Luz Claudio: A Mission to Build Capacity in Latin America - Global Environmental Health newsletter from NIEHS, March 2013
• Fogarty-supported researchers at UCLA predicting hotspots for future flu outbreaks - UCLA news release, March 13, 2013
• Related journal article: Predicting Hotspots for Influenza Virus Reassortment - Emerging Infectious Diseases, March 13, 2013
• Fogarty study sheds light on role of climate in influenza transmission - NIH News, March 8, 2013
• Flu Risk And Weather: It's Not The Heat, It's The Humidity - Shots, Health News from NPR, March 8, 2013
• Cancer-slowing compound also combats malaria, researchers find - Medical Xpress, March 8, 2013

February 2013

• NIH Awards the Rutgers/Al-Quds Brain Health Alliance A Two-Year Research Grant - Al-Quds University News, February 2013
• NIH Operation Plan in the Event of a Sequestration (NOT-OD-13-043) - February 21, 2013
• Genomics is transforming infectious disease studies
• Global disease study reveals successes, challenges
• Confronting the shifting disease burden: opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Focus on water and its impact on global health:
• Water poses complex issues for global health scientists
• An international research collaboration develops clay water filters to reduce diarrheal disease
• Searching for causes of Buruli ulcers in Ghana
• Uruguay herbicide test spurs regional interest
• Identifying leptospirosis and saving patients
• NIH's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) celebrates 50 years of improving children's health
• Network discovers ways to save mothers, babies
• Research discoveries protect babies from HIV
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow researches pediatric cardiology in Malawi
• Mobile health technology spurs rapid advancements
• Mobile health researchers seek to improve emergency obstetric care in Bangladesh
• New partnership models emerge for research training
• NIH and its health disparities institute call for more partnerships, policies and community action
• US steps up efforts to protect world's children
• Q and A with Dr Francis G Omaswa, MBChB, MMed, FRCS, MEPI Coordinating Center PI
• Mysterious Chinese herb holds promise for malaria, cancer
• Global health briefs - February 2013
• People in the news - February 2013
• Former Fogarty Scholar Melissa Ketunuti is mourned - Fogarty News, February 1, 2013

January 2013

• Researchers Hunt for Causes of Nodding Syndrome - NIH Record, January 18, 2013
• GETHealth Summit to Address Health Workforce Shortages in Developing Countries
  The Huffington Post, January 10, 2013