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September 2022

• Exposure Contrasts of Pregnant Women during the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Randomized Controlled Trial, authored by HAPIN Trial investigators, supported by Fogarty and other NIH Institutes and Centers
  Environmental Health Perspectives, September 16, 2022
• NIH-funded team develops method to identify future SARS-CoV-2 mutations that could affect rapid antigen test performance
  NIH/NIBIB news, September 15, 2022
• Prenatal cannabis exposure associated with mental disorders in children that persist into early adolescence
  NIH/NIDA news, September 12, 2022
• U.S. clinical trial evaluating antiviral for monkeypox begins
  NIH/NIAID news, September 9, 2022
• New fund for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response formally established
  WHO news, September 9, 2022
• Understanding PrEP decision making among pregnant women in Lilongwe, Malawi: A mixed-methods study, co-authored by Fogarty Fellow Friday Saidi and grantee Benjamin Chi
  Journal of the International AIDS Society, September 8, 2022
• Umbilical cord milking may improve health in non-vigorous term and near-term infants
  NIH/NICHD news, September 7, 2022
• Bedaquiline–Pretomanid–Linezolid Regimens for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, co-authored by Fogarty trainees Lali Mikiashvili and Ebrahim Variava
  New England Journal of Medicine, September 1, 2022

August 2022

• Global Health Matters, July / August 2022
  • World Health Assembly emphasizes strengthening global health workforce
  • Using sociology to tackle AIDS in Indonesia: Q & A with Dr. Judith Levy
  • Early career researchers in Ethiopia and India find common ground
  • Former Fogarty Fellow Abigail Link evaluates meningitis causes among patients in Uganda
  • Opinion: Fogarty’s continuing support of Ebola research is a point of pride
  • Focus: Fogarty’s response to Ebola: Where are we now?
    • Building a bench of researchers in post-Ebola Liberia
    • South-South partnership bolsters the fight against viral disease in West Africa
    • Developing a new generation of researchers in Sierra Leone
  • Preventing road injuries saves countless lives
  • People in global health news
  • Global health news briefs
• Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Pesticides Are Key Topics for GEOHealth Programs
  Global Environmental Health, August 2022
  
• SARS-CoV-2 antigen levels linked to patient outcomes
  NIH/NIAID news, August 29, 2022
• Epidemiological and viral characteristics of undiagnosed HIV infections in Botswana, co-authored by Fogarty grantees Sikhulile Moyo and Simani Gaseitsiwe
  BMC Infectious Diseases, August 28, 2022
• NIH experts review monkeypox challenges
  NIH/ NIAID news, August 25, 2022
• Statement on NIH plans to speed access to federally funded research results
  NIH Director’s Blog, August 25, 2022
• Cross-sectional analysis of the association between personal exposure to household air pollution and blood pressure in adult women: evidence from the multi-country household air pollution intervention network (HAPIN) trial, authored by HAPIN Trial investigators, supported by Fogarty and other NIH Institutes and Centers
  Environmental Research, August 24, 2022
• African health ministers endorse new strategy to curb chronic disease crisis
  WHO Africa news, August 23, 2022
• Factors Contributing to and Reducing Delays in the Provision of Adequate Care in Ghana: A Qualitative Study of Trauma Care Providers, co-authored by Fogarty grantees Peter Donkor, Adam Gyedu and Charles Mock and Fogarty Fellows Kajal Mehta and Barclay Stewart
  World Journal of Surgery, August 22, 2022
• WHO makes new recommendations for Ebola treatments, calls for improved access
  WHO News, August 19, 2022
• NIH-funded researchers develop same-day test to detect abnormal fetal chromosomes
  NIH/NICHD news, August 17, 2022
• Restoring cell and organ function after the heart stops
  NIH Research Matters, August 16, 2022
• Blood-based biomarkers help predict outcomes after traumatic brain Injury
  NIH/NINDS news, August 10, 2022
• A Global-Local Paradigm for Mental Health: A Model and Implications for Addressing Disparities Through Training and Research Fogarty grantee Kristina Korte lead author
  Academic Psychiatry, August 9, 2022
• Bibliometric analysis of sub-Saharan African and US authorship in publications about sub-Saharan Africa funded by the Fogarty International Center, 2008-2020, co-authored by Fogarty's Ezinne Akudinobi and Fogarty Deputy Director Peter Kilmarx
  BMJ Global Health, August 7, 2022
  
• Monoclonal antibody prevents malaria in U.S. adults, NIH trial shows
  NIH/NIAID news, August 4, 2022
• Differences in Reasons for Late Presentation to HIV Care in Uganda Among Men and Women co-authored by former Fogarty Fellows Sarah Lofgren, Nakita Natala, Anna Stadleman, and David Meya
  AIDS and Behavior, August 2, 2022

July 2022

• It is time to end AIDS in children once and for all: Global Alliance launched
  UNAIDS news, July 30, 2022
• WHO considers single-dose HPV vaccine schedule
  Global Health Matters, July / August 2022
• Analysis: What Do Global Health Practitioners Think about Decolonizing Global Health?, co-authored by Fogarty Deputy Director Peter Kilmarx
  Annals of Global Health, July 27, 2022
• Climate Change and Health Initiative to Expand Research, Build Resiliency
  NIH Director’s blog, July 26, 2022
• WHO releases global COVID-19 vaccination strategy update to reach unprotected
  WHO news, July 22, 2022
• Perspective: Syndemics and clinical science authored by former Fogarty Scholar Emily Mendenhall
  Nature Medicine, July 21, 2022
• Accuracy of Tongue Swab Testing Using Xpert MTB-RIF Ultra for Tuberculosis Diagnosis, co-authored by Fogarty trainees Alfred Andama and William Worodria
  Journal of Clinical Microbiology, July 20, 2022
• Compliance with Health Recommendations and Vaccine Hesitancy During the COVID Pandemic in Nine Countries authored by Fogarty grantee Jennifer Lansford
  Prevention Science, July 20, 2022
• Podcast: Risk Prediction for Pediatric Patients with Suspected Ebola Virus Disease
  CDC, July 20, 2022
  • Related article: Risk Prediction Score for Pediatric Patients with Suspected Ebola Virus Disease
    Emerging Infectious Diseases, June 2022
• Global influenza surveillance systems to detect the spread of influenza-negative influenza-like illness during the COVID-19 pandemic: Time series outlier analyses from 2015-2020, co-authored by Fogarty Fellow Sigrid Collier 
  PLOS Medicine, July 19, 2022
• Finding HIV’s ‘Sweet Spot’
  NIH Director’s Blog, July 19, 2022
• Vaccine-Induced Immune Response to Omicron Wanes Substantially Over Time
  NIH/NIAID news, July 19, 2022
  
• The prevalence of Post-Ebola Syndrome hearing loss, Sierra Leone, Fogarty Fellows Samuel Ficenec and Donald Grant lead authors
  BMC Infectious Diseases, July 18, 2022
• A Randomized Trial of Point-of-Care Early Infant Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Diagnosis in Zambia, co-authored by Fogarty grantees Carla Chibwesha, Benjamin Chi, and Jeffrey Stringer
  Clinical Infectious Diseases, July 15, 2022
• Origins and Evolution of Seasonal Human Coronaviruses, co-authored by Fogarty’s James Otieno, Joshua Cherry, David Spiro, and, Nídia Trovão
  Viruses, July 15, 2022
• Pediatric HIV Case Identification Across 22 PEPFAR-Supported Countries During the COVID-19 Pandemic, October 2019–September 2020
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), CDC, July 15, 2022
• Angiogenic and angiostatic factors present in the saliva of malaria patients, co-authored by Fogarty Fellows Celia Lekpor and Felix Botchway
  Malaria Journal, July 14, 2022
• NIH launches clinical trial of mRNA Nipah virus vaccine
  NIH/NIAID news, July 11, 2022
• Preterm birth more likely with exposure to phthalates
  NIH/NIEHS news, July 11, 2022
• Hotspots and super-spreaders: Modelling fine-scale malaria parasite transmission using mosquito flight behaviour, co-authored by Fogarty grantee Robert McCann
  PLOS Pathogens, July 6, 2022
• Small NIH study reveals how immune response triggered by COVID-19 may damage the brain
  NIH/NINDS news, July 5, 2022
• Rapid diagnostic tests versus RT–PCR for Ebola virus infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization, July 1, 2022

June 2022

• Epidemiological characteristics of injury in Georgia: A one-year retrospective study co-authored by Fogarty grantee Corinne Peek-Asa
  Injury, June 2022
  
• Working Together to Advance Cancer Control and Reduce Stigma: Anal Cancer Prevention in the Nigerian SGM Community
  NCI Center for Global Health blog, June 30, 2022
• Projecting the SARS-CoV-2 transition from pandemicity to endemicity: Epidemiological and immunological considerations, co-authored by Fogarty’s David J. Spiro and Cécile Viboud
  PLos Pathogens, June 30, 2022
• NIH-funded project offers efficient approach when tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants
  NIH/NIBIB news, June 29, 2022
• Spatial distribution of incident pediatric Burkitt lymphoma in central and northern Malawi and association with malaria prevalence, co-authored by Fogarty Fellow and current grantee, Katherine Westmoreland, and NCI’s Center for Global Health Director Satish Gopal
  Pediatric Blood & Cancer, June 22, 2022
• Researchers study a new way to treat sickle cell disease
  NHLBI research news, June 16, 2022
  
• Four multinational, interdisciplinary teams selected to address major challenges in cancer
  NIH news, June 16, 2022
• In people with HIV, treating precancerous anal lesions cuts risk of anal cancer by more than half
  NIH/NCI news, June 15, 2022
• Global Health Matters, May / June 2022
  • Opinion: To improve global health, we need to invest in people 
  • Failing less by listening more: How to create sustainable teen HIV care
  • Profile: Former Fogarty fellow Siana Nkya tackles sickle cell disease in Tanzania
  • Reducing injuries in Egypt: Q & A with Mohamed Seif El-din
  • Focus: Reckoning with the global toll of antimicrobial resistance
  • The paradox of antimicrobial resistance in India
  • Discovering the character of sepsis in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Tracking antimalarial drug resistance in Uganda
  • Resistance in the context of ancient & modern diseases
  • Fogarty welcomes new board members
  • NIH launches new scientific data sharing website
  • Track your scientific contributions with an ORCID iD
  • Global health news briefs
• Lola Kola: developing mHealth for mental health in west Africa, profile of Emerging Global Leader Lola Kola
  Lancet, June 11, 2022
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection and Pregnancy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A 6-Country Retrospective Cohort Analysis, Fogarty grantees Jean Nachega, Nadia Sam-Agudu, Rhoderick Machekano, and Philip J. Rosenthal lead authors
  Clinical Infectious Diseases, June 8, 2022
  • Related commentary: Prioritizing Pregnant Women for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination in African Countries
    Clinical Infectious Diseases, June 8, 2022
    
• T cells protect against COVID-19 in absence of antibody response
  NIH Research Matters, June 7, 2022
• Food allergy is associated with lower risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection
  NIH/NIAID news, June 1, 2022
• Combination Anti-HIV Antibody Infusions Suppress Virus for Prolonged Period
  NIAID news, June 1, 2022
  

May 2022

• The Development of Global Cancer Research at the United States National Cancer Institute
  Journal of the National Cancer Institute, May 28, 2022
• Monkeypox virus: Complete genome from the current outbreak now available in GenBank
  NCBI Insights, National Library of Medicine, May 26, 2022
• NIH requests input on greater equity in global health research
  Global Health Matters, May / June 2022
• Patterns of change of multisite pain over 1 year of follow-up and related risk factors, co-authored by Fogarty grantee Sarah Felknor and trainees Lope Barrero Solano and Marianela Rojas Garbanso
  European Journal of Pain, May 22, 2022
• WHO validates 11th vaccine for COVID-19
  WHO news, May 19, 2022
  
• Podcast: Understanding Infectious Diseases, featuring Fogarty's Nídia Trovão
  Lessons from Lab & Life Podcast from New England Biolabs, May 19, 2022
• Fogarty awards $29M to U.S. university consortia in revamp of Fellows and Scholars program
  Global Health Matters, May / June 2022
• Scientists identify characteristics to better define long COVID
  NIH/NCATS news, May 16, 2022
  
• NIH Licenses COVID-19 Research Tools and Early-Stage Technologies to WHO Program
  HHS news, May 12, 2022
  
• Unique binding of Delta variant may explain high transmissibility
  NIH news, May 11, 2022
• Modeling transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron in China, co-authored by Fogarty’s Kaiyuan Sun
  Nature, May 10, 2022
  
• WHO launches first ever global report on Infection Prevention and Control
  WHO news release, May 6, 2022
• Priorities and Opportunities in Global Health Research, Fogarty Deputy Director Peter Kilmarx panelist
  Hosted by New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing, May 3, 2022
• Domestic Dogs as Sentinels for West Nile Virus but not Aedes-borne Flaviviruses, Mexico
  Emerging Infectious Diseases from the CDC, May 2022

April 2022

• Global Health Matters, Mar /Apr 2022
  • CUGH 2022 examines pandemic corruption, anti-science movement
  • H3Africa resources endure beyond its end
  • Profile: Fogarty Fellow Ivan Segawa investigates nurse-led PrEP delivery in Uganda
  • Finding the true burden of RSV and influenza in Sierra Leone: Q & A with Dr. Robert Samuels
  • Focus: Rethinking the scientific diaspora
  • Health disparities research provides lessons for U.S. and LMICs — Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass
  World Report data aids entrepreneurship in Africa
  • Global health news briefs: Fogarty's Center for Global Health Studies (CGHS)compiles implementation science case studies, 2021 G-Finder report released, African CDC releases vaccine framework, and more
    
• Viability of an urban maternity waiting home in Kumasi, Ghana: A qualitative needs assessment, Fogarty fellow Dr. Julie M Buser lead author
  Midwifery, April 22, 2022
• Paths to Prevention: CDC Evaluates and Shares Lessons Learned from HPV Vaccine Introduction in Three Countries
  Global Immunization, April 21, 2022
• New guidelines from WHO recommend a simpler, safer treatment for cryptococcal disease in people living with HIV
  WHO news release, April 20, 2022
• New global advisory panel convenes for upcoming road safety report
  WHO news release, April 19, 2022
• Nasal antiviral blocks SARS-CoV-2 infection in mice
  NIH Research Matters, April 12, 2022
• One-dose Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine offers solid protection against cervical cancer
  WHO news release, April 11, 2022
• Antibodies recognize new SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant after booster
  NIH news, April 5, 2022
• People in global health news: NCI Director Sharpless steps down; Gerberding named CEO of FNIH; former Fogarty fellows win CUGH awards
  Global Health Matters, Mar /Apr 2022
  
• NIH, Fogarty see budget increases for Fiscal Year 2022
  Global Health Matters, Mar /Apr 2022
• Managing Post-Stroke Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Tertiary Care Level Hospital in Peru
  Fogarty Scholar Jessica Hanae Zafra-Tanaka lead author
  Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, April 2022

March 2022

• Researchers generate the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome
  NIH news release, March 31, 2022
• Podcast: The Science of Connection
  Featuring former Fogarty Fellow Dr. Dixon Chibanda
  A Slight Change of Plans Podcast, March 28, 2022
  
• Epidemiology and genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 lineages circulating in Africa, co-authored by Fogarty's Nidia Trovao
  iScience, March 18, 2022
  
• Spatio-temporal modelling of malaria mortality in India from 2004 to 2013 from the Million Death Study, co-authored by Fogarty grantee Dr. Prabhat Jha
  Malaria Journal, March 17, 2022
• The Impact of Interventions to Prevent Neonatal Healthcare-associated Infections in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Systematic Review, co-authored by Fogarty grantee Dr. Angela Dramowski
  The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, March 2022
• NIH’s All of Us Research Program Releases First Genomic Dataset of Nearly 100,000 Whole Genome Sequences
  NIH news release, March 17, 2022
• Finding the ‘Tipping Point’ to Permanent Kidney Damage
  NIH Director's Blog, March 15, 2022
• NIH launches clinical trial of three mRNA HIV vaccines
  NIH news release, March 14, 2022
• Researchers uncover how the human brain separates, stores, and retrieves memories
  NIH news release, March 7, 2022
• Podcast: When will COVID end in South Africa?
  with former Fogarty grantee Salim Abdool Karim
  from Bhekisisa: Centre for Health Journalism, March 4, 2022
• Blood-feeding patterns of Anopheles vectors of human malaria in Malawi: implications for malaria transmission and effectiveness of LLIN interventions
  co-authored by Fogarty grantees Dr. Don Mathanga and Dr. Miriam Laufer
  Malaria Journal, March 3, 2022
  
• WHO releases new standard to tackle rising threat of hearing loss
  WHO Departmental news, March 2, 2022
• Developing customized stepwise MIRU-VNTR typing for tuberculosis surveillance in Georgia
  co-authored by Fogarty grantees Drs. Nestani Tukvadze and Henry Blumberg
  PLoS One, March 1, 2022

February 2022

• Mortality Associated With Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus in the US, 1999-2018, co-authored by Fogarty's Dr. Chelsea Hansen and Dr. Cécile Viboud
  JAMA Network Open, February 28, 2022
• January / February 2022 Global Health Matters
  • NIH unveils framework for climate change initiative
    
  • Former Fogarty trainees involved in COVID-19 clinical trials
    
  • Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr. Sikhulile Moyo recognized for omicron discovery
    
  • Focus: Importance of including men in global health research
    
  • Projects examine sex, behavior differences that impact men’s health
    
  • Researchers study refugee families’ mental health needs
    
  • Grantees study masculine norms to reduce violence
    
  • From Fogarty grantee to leader at National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), South Africa: Q and A with Dr. Michelle Groome
    
  • Pandemic truths: “none are safe until all are safe,” Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass
    
  • Grantees share approaches to reduce sexual harassment
  • Learn how to acknowledge Fogarty funding
  • People in global health news
    
  • Global health news briefs
    
• For Insight Into Cookstove Use, Researchers Turn to Behavioral Science
  Global Environmental Health from the National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), February 2022
• Updated Guidance for COVID-19 and People with HIV
  from the NIH Office of AIDS Research, February 22, 2022
• Seeking Consensus on the Use of Population Descriptors in Genomics
  NIH Director's Blog, February 22, 2022
  
• Assessing the Effects of Cooking Fuels on Anopheles Mosquito Behavior: An Experimental Study in Rural Rwanda
  co-authored by Fogarty's Dr. Joshua Rosenthal
  The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, February 21, 2022
• Lessons from the field: case studies in global implementation science
  co-edited by Fogarty's Blythe Beecroft and Rachel Sturke
  Implementation Science Communications, February 16, 2022
• Case Study: Global Collaboration on a UV-C Cabinet to Decontaminate and Reuse N95 Respirators in Low- and Middle-Income Environments
  co-authored by Fogarty Scholar Dr. Nichole Starr
  NEJM Catalyst, February 16, 2022
  
• Researchers document third known case of HIV remission involving stem cell transplant
  NIH/NIAID news release, February 15, 2022
• WHO prequalifies first monoclonal antibody - tocilizumab – to treat COVID-19
  WHO news release, February 11, 2022
  
• Through DS-I Africa, NIH is Fostering a New Health Data Science Community
  co-authored by Fogarty's Dr. Laura K. Povlich
  National Library of Medicine director's blog, February 9, 2022
• Multiple expansions of globally uncommon SARS-CoV-2 lineages in Nigeria
  co-authored by Fogarty grantee Dr. Babafemi Taiwo
  Nature Communications, February 3, 2022
• Podcast: Dr. Peter Kilmarx: Distrust in Public Health in America “Is One of Those Wicked Problems”
  Coronavirus Crisis Update podcast from the Center for Strategic & International Studies, February 2, 2022
  
• NIAID Pandemic Preparedness Plan targets ‘prototype’ and priority pathogens
  NIH media advisory, February 2, 2022

January 2022

• SARS-CoV-2 introductions and early dynamics of the epidemic in Portugal
  co-authored by Fogarty's Dr. Nídia Trovão
  Communications Medicine, January 28, 2022
• Hyperimmune intravenous immunoglobulin does not improve outcomes for adults hospitalized with COVID-19
  NIH news release, January 27, 2022
• Association between personal exposure to household air pollution and gestational blood pressure among women using solid cooking fuels in rural Tamil Nadu, India
  authored by HAPIN Trial investigators, supported by Fogarty and other NIH Institutes and Centers
  Environmental Research, January 25, 2022
• Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic bronchitis in eight countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  co-authored (lead) by fomer Fogarty fellow Dr. Prashant Jarhyan
  The Bulletin of the World Health Organization, January 19, 2022
• Assessment of Clinical Outcomes Among Children and Adolescents Hospitalized With COVID-19 in 6 Sub-Saharan African Countries
  co-authored by Fogarty grantee Dr. Jean Nachega
  JAMA Pediatrics, January 19, 2022
  • Related commentary: Global Representation During a Global Pandemic
    JAMA Pediatrics, January 19, 2022
• African genomic data sharing and the struggle for equitable benefit
  authored by Fogarty grantee Michèle Ramsay
  Patterns, January 14, 2022
• WHO recommends two new drugs to treat COVID-19
  WHO news release, January 14, 2022
• Experimental mRNA HIV vaccine shows promise in animals 
  NIH Research Matters, January 11, 2022
• Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in southern Africa
  co-authored by former Fogarty fellow Dr. Sikhulile Moyo
  Nature, January 7, 2022
• Perspective: Covid-19’s Devastating Effect on Tuberculosis Care — A Path to Recovery
  co-authored by former Fogarty trainees Dr. Madhukar Pai and Dr. Soumya Swaminathan
  New England Journal of Medicine, January 5, 2022
• Podcast: Through the Looking Glass: The Bidirectional Benefits Of Investing In Global Health
  Center for Global Health Innovation, January 5, 2022
  
• Video: COVID: Then, Now, and the Future
  Part of the NIH Demystifying Medicine lecture series
  NIAID Director Anthony Fauci and Fogarty Director Roger Glass co-presenters
  January 4, 2022
  
• Climate change spurs big new plan for health research
  Environmental Factor from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), January 2022

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