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US university consortia receive $26M to train early-career global health researchers

July / August 2017 | Volume 16, Issue 4

Fogarty and its NIH partners are continuing efforts to build a network of U.S. academic institutions to provide early-career physicians, veterinarians, dentists and scientists with a significant mentored research experience in a developing country. Support is planned through Fogarty's Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars, with awards totaling more than $25.9 million over five years to consortia at six U.S. universities.

One award supports a new consortium led by Harvard University, together with Boston University, Northwestern University and University of New Mexico. The remaining awards renew support for consortia led by University of California, Berkeley; University of California, San Francisco; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; University of Washington; and Vanderbilt University.

To participate in the program, students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty from the U.S. or from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) apply through one of the consortia for placement at an LMIC institution. Read profiles of fellows and scholars working around the world on mental health following the Ebola outbreak, point-of-care diagnostics for tuberculosis and HIV, pediatric cardiology, and other pressing global health issues.

The current iteration of the program is based on the success and experience of Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars and Fellows (FICRS-F).

Support for the program comes from partners across NIH, including the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) and NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH).

2017 Awards for the Fogarty Global Health Training Program

• Fogarty Global Health Research Training Program
  Principal institution: Harvard University
  Consortium members: Boston University, Northwestern University, University of New Mexico
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Wafaie W. Fawzi
  Details in NIH RePORTER: Partnership for Global Health Research Training Program (TW010543)

• GloCal Health Fellowship
  Principal institution: University of California, San Francisco
  Consortium members: University of California, San Diego, University of California, Los Angeles and University of California, Davis
  Principal Investigators: Drs. Craig R. Cohen and Steffanie A. Strathdee
  Details in NIH RePORTER: University of California Global Health Institute Program for Fellows and Scholars (TW009343)

• UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellows Program
  Principal institution: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Consortium members: Johns Hopkins University, Morehouse School of Medicine, Tulane University
  Principal Investigators: Drs. Benjamin H. Chi, Pierre Buekens, Kofi A. Kondwani and Yukari C. Manabe
  Details in NIH RePORTER: The UJMT Global Consortium: Building Research Capacity through Mentored Training (TW009340)

• Northern/Pacific Global Health Research Fellows Training Consortium
  Principal institution: University of Washington
  Consortium members: University of Hawaii, University of Michigan and University of Minnesota
  Principal Investigators: Drs. Joseph Raymond Zunt, Joseph C. Kolars, Vivek Ramchandra Nerurkar and Shailendra Prasad
  Details in NIH RePORTER: Northern/Pacific Universities Global Health Research Training Consortium (TW009345)

• VECD Fogarty Global Health Fellowship Consortium
  Principal institution: Vanderbilt University
  Consortium members: Duke University, Emory University and Weill Cornell Medical College
  Principal Investigators: Drs. Douglas Corbett Heimburger and Muktar Hassan Aliyu
  Details in NIH RePORTER: Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke Consortium for Global Health Fellows (VECDOR) (TW009337)

• All awards supported by Fogarty Global Health Training Program (D43) (RFA-TW-16-002) in NIH RePORTER.

More Information

• Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars
• Profiles of Fogarty Fellows and Scholars
• NIH renews funding for Fogarty training consortium, led by UW
  Unviersity of Washington Department of Global Health news, August 07, 2017
• NIH renews UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellows Program
  UNC Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases, July 2017
• Fogarty program bolsters research network for students
  Tulane University news, July 25, 2017

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Related Fogarty Programs

• Global Health Fellows and Scholars/LAUNCH