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November 2018

• Supplement: Mentorship training and global health research [Open access]
  The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, November 14, 2018 (online, ahead of print)
• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) announces the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2017
  Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation news, November 8, 2018
• The Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
  The Lancet, November 10, 2018
• People in the news
  Fogarty news, November 7, 2018
• Grantee news: Big boost for infectious diseases research
  University of the West Indies, State University of New York at Buffalo awarded US$1 million to train 15 young scientists
  Jamaica Observer, November 7, 2018
• Grantee news: [GSU professor] receives diversity research supplement [to Fogarty tobacco grant] to study smoking cessation in China, Vietnam
  Georgia State University news, November 6, 2018

October 2018

• New data for 2017 from NIH and other partners now available in World Report
  Fogarty news, October 30, 2018
• Final HIV prevention research highlights from HIV R4P 2018
  NIAID Now blog, October 25, 2018
• Using World Report to measure how much HPV-related research is being funded throughout the world
  NCI Center for Global Health CGH Spotlight blog, October 19, 2018
• Genomic analysis [supported in part by NIAID, NHGRI and NIH Common Fund's H3Africa] offers insight into 2018 Nigeria Lassa fever outbreak
  NIAID/NIH news, October 18, 2018
• Grantee news: New center to jumpstart point-of-care technologies for HIV treatment in Africa with support from NIH Office of AIDS Research, NIBIB and Fogarty
  Northwestern University news, October 17, 2018
• The Medical Education Partnership Initiative: Strengthening Human Resources to End AIDS and Improve Health in Africa, co-authored by Fogarty leadership
  Academic Medicine courtesy of PubMed, October 16, 2018
• Scientists develop novel vaccine for Lassa fever and rabies
  NIAID/NIH news, October 11, 2018
• Grantee news: New grant to build research capacity in infectious diseases
  Aga Khan University news, October 8, 2018
• Cities’ population, transportation patterns affect how flu epidemics play out
  Oregon State University news, October 3, 2018
• Related publications:
  Urbanization and humidity shape the intensity of influenza epidemics in U.S. cities, co-authored by Fogarty's Dr Cecile Viboud
  Science, October 5, 2018
  Perspective: Metropolitan versus small-town influenza
  Science, October 5, 2018
• Fogarty website improves security, users must update older web browsers
  Fogarty news, October 1, 2018

September 2018

• Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER) cycle 7 grant recipients, including grants supported by NIH
  U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, September 2018
• Africa’s health, research workforce gets $26M boost
• Prof. Sewankambo, Prof. Kiguli win 5-year Fogarty International Center awards
  Makerere University College of Health Sciences news, October 17, 2018
• MUHAS receives Fogarty grant for transforming health professions education in Tanzania
  Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) news, October 2, 2018
• AAU receives over $3.5 million USD for Health-Professional Education Partnership Initiative (HEPI) through the US government fund
  Addis Ababa University news, September 26, 2018
• NIH trying to change science culture, boost women’s role
• Fogarty-supported research revolutionizes hydrocephalus care
• Focus on Alzheimer's disease and dementia:
• Tackling the growing, global burden of dementia
• Study in India sets stage for US tests of screening tool for cognitive impairment
• Fogarty grantees receive supplemental funding for training in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
• As dementia rises in Africa, urgent need for research
• Encouraging research innovations that improve health
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Leading the fight against HIV/AIDS in Cambodia
  Q and A with Dr Vonthanak Saphonn
• First Fogarty ophthalmology Fellow Dr Fran Wu studies rare pediatric cancer in Ethiopia
• Fogarty trainees in Dhaka collaborate on diarrheal diseases
• People in the news - September 2018
• Global health briefs - September 2018
• Combination HIV antibody infusions safely maintain viral suppression in select individuals
  NIAID/NIH news, September 26, 2018
• NIH releases strategic plan to address tuberculosis research
  NIAID/NIH news, September 26, 2018
• AAU receives over $3.5M for Health-Professional Education Partnership Initiative (HEPI) through the US government fund
  Addis Ababa University news, September 26, 2018
• NIH launches study to test combination antibody treatment for HIV infection
  NIAID/NIH news, September 20, 2018
• NIH funds study to prevent, treat HIV among adolescents in poor countries
  Study seeks to identify high-risk youth and get them into medical care
  NICHD/NIH news, September 19, 2018
• Changing the culture of science to end sexual harassment
  Statement by NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins
  NIH news, September 17, 2018
• Gene variations linked to severity of Zika-related birth defects, small NIH study suggests
  NICHD/NIH news, September 17, 2018
• Grantee news: Physical activity associated with cognitive benefits in women living with HIV
  Infectious Disease Advisor, September 17, 2018
• NIH launches initiative to accelerate genetic therapies to cure sickle cell disease
  NHLBI/NIH news, September 13, 2018
• Early stage clinical trial of antimalarial drug begins
  NIAID/NIH news, September 10, 2018

August 2018

• HIV/AIDS research yields dividends across medical fields
  NIAID/NIH news, August 28, 2018
• Related publciation: The extended impact of Human Immunodeficiency Virus/AIDS research [Free access]
  The Journal of Infectious Diseases, August 28, 2018
• Rapid development in Central Africa increases the risk of infectious disease outbreaks
  Scientists call for proactive investments in health care infrastructure
  NIAID/NIH new release, August 23, 2018
• Related publication: Perspective: Outbreaks in a rapidly changing Central Africa - lessons from Ebola
  New England Journal of Medicine, August 22, 2018
• Grantee news: New NIH grant to focus on electronic cigarette use and policies in Latin America
  University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health news, August 23, 2018
• Grantee news: Científico del Instituto Leloir recibe subsidio internacional para estudiar la plasticidad y el envejecimiento cerebral
  Fundación Instituto Leloir news, August 22, 2018
• Viewpoint: Oral rehydration therapy for diarrheal diseases: a 50-year perspective co-authored by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
  JAMA, August 17, 2018
• Fogarty launches program to reduce HIV/AIDS stigma, lower disease transmission
• $17M is awarded to support HIV, disease ecology, mHealth projects
• Focus on cancer:
• NIH supports cancer research to reduce disease burden
• Research, technology fight cancer in LMIC women
• Vietnam project studies text messages to curb smoking
• Global studies show single dose of HPV vaccine provides protection
• Fogarty and NIH have catalyzed cancer research in Malawi
• Training cancer researchers in Malawi:
  Q and A with Dr Tamiwe Tomoka
• Study explores how to repurpose HIV platform to combat NCDs
• Implementing clean cookstoves is ongoing challenge
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Profile: First Fogarty dermatology Fellow Dr Aileen Chang studies Kaposi’s sarcoma in Uganda
• Fogarty Fellows and Scholars welcomed by NIH Director Dr Francis S Collins
• Fogarty awards new Clayton-Dedonder mentorship grants to support HIV/AIDS research and training
• People in the news - August 2018
• Global health briefs - August 2018
• NIH study shows how MERS coronavirus evolves to infect different species
  NIAID/NIH news, August 14, 2018
• Experts highlight Ebola vaccine progress and suggest next steps
  NIAID/NIH news, August 13, 2018
• Related publication: Prevention of Ebola virus disease through vaccination: where we are in 2018
  The Lancet, August 10, 2018
• New study finds fake, low-quality medicines prevalent in the developing world
  UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health news, August 12, 2018
• NIH researchers discover highly infectious vehicle for transmission of viruses among humans
  NIAID/NIH news, August 8, 2018
• Obesity extends duration of influenza A virus shedding, research supported by NIAID and Fogarty
  NIAID news, August 2, 2018
• Influenza: Adults who are obese may be contagious longer [Video]
  University of Michigan news, August 3, 2018

July 2018

• Strengthening health research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa: mapping the 2012–2017 landscape of externally funded international postgraduate training at institutions in the region [using World Report]
  Globalization and Health, July 31, 2018
• Are we doing enough for malaria research? - using World Report to investigate
  Malaria.com blog, July 31, 2018
• Q&A: HIV and the gut microbiome
  NIAID Now blog, July 30, 2018
• Eliminating poor quality medicines: ‘Caveat emptor, Caveat venditor’ (buyer beware, seller beware) by Dr Joel Breman, Fogarty senior scientific adviser emeritus
  International Health, July 28, 2018
• Scaling up clean fuel cooking programs [Open access] edited by Fogarty scientists
  Energy for Sustainable Development special issue, July 25, 2018 (online)
• Multi-disease health fairs, universal “test and treat” help East African communities achieve HIV benchmarks
  NIAID/NIH news, July 25, 2018
• Fauci at International AIDS Conference: HIV remission free of antiretroviral therapy is a feasible goal
  NIAID/NIH news, July 25, 2018
• Grantee news: Estimated prevalence of neurodevelopmental disorders is nearly 1 in 8 among children in India
  PLOS Medicine news, July 24, 2018
• Second NIH Rwandan Fellow Dr. J. Damascene Kabakambira works to prevent diabetes in Africa
  NIMHD/NIH news, July 24, 2018
• Genetic diversity of noroviruses circulating in a pediatric cohort in Bangladesh, co-authored by Fogarty scientists
  The Journal of Infectious Diseases, July 23, 2018
• Fogarty awards new Clayton-Dedonder mentorship grants to support HIV/AIDS research and training
  Fogarty news, July 19, 2018
• Yale joins the ‘surge’ to prepare African scientists to lead HIV treatment and prevention
  Yale news, July 18, 2018
• Advancing global health and strengthening the HIV response in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals
  International AIDS Society-Lancet Commission, July 19, 2018
• Cancer scientists have ignored African DNA in the search for cures, featuring the NIH-supported Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) program
  Newsweek, July 18, 2018
• Broadly acting antibodies found in plasma of Ebola survivors
  NIAID/NIH news, July 17, 2018
• Grantee news: Deaths from cardiovascular disease rising in India, [Fogarty-supported] study finds
  St. Michael's Hospital news, July 16, 2018
• Making implementation science work for children and adolescents living with HIV co-authored by Fogarty staff
  Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS) Supplement, July 12, 2018 (online)
• NIAID scientists create 3D structure of 1918 influenza virus-like particles
  NIAID/NIH news, July 11, 2018
• NIH researchers identify sequence leading to release of malaria parasites from red blood cells
  NICHD/NIH news, July 11, 2018
• Building bioethics capacity: the Johns Hopkins Fogarty African Bioethics Consortium
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health blog, July 6, 2018
• Pregnancy loss occurs in 26 percent of Zika-infected monkeys
  NIAID/NIH news, July 2, 2018
• Research to guide practice: enhancing HIV/AIDS platform to address non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa [Open access], generated by a project led by Fogarty’s Center for Global Health Studies
  Supplement to AIDS, July 1, 2018

June 2018

• Grantee news: Georgia CTSA-supported research confirms cost-effectiveness of WHO-recommended algorithms for tuberculosis screening in Ethiopia
  Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance news, June 27, 2018
• NIAID responds to Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  NIAID Now blog, June 25, 2018
• Focus on Fogarty at 50:
  • Fogarty marks 50 years of global health partnerships, considers future directions
  • Considering the new frontiers of global health research
    Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
  • Viewpoints of Fogarty at 50
• The power of multigenerational mentorship at Makerere University in Uganda: Q and A with Dr Mark Kaddumukasa
• Profile: Dr Vivek Naranbhai enters global network via Fogarty fellowship program
• Fogarty’s Glass receives Carter humanitarian award
• People in the news - June 2018
• Global health briefs - June 2018
• Ethical guidelines for genomic research in Africa from the H3Africa consortium
  JAMA, June 19, 2018
• Grantee news: Geisel receives Fogarty grant to fund research collaboration in East Africa
  Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine news, June 13, 2018
• Delay in HIV treatment associated with brain atrophy:
  Findings indicate the importance of early diagnosis and treatment
  NIMH/NIH news, June 13, 2018
• Rapid growth of biomedical research in Peru [Open access]
  The Lancet Global Health, June 12, 2018 (online)
• HIV infection in patients with sexually transmitted infections in Zimbabwe - Results from the Zimbabwe STI etiology study [Open access] co-authored by Fogarty Deputy Director Dr. Peter H. Kilmarx
  PLOS ONE, June 11, 2018
• Emergence and evolution of novel reassortant influenza A viruses in canines in southern China, led by Fogarty scientists Drs. Nidia Trovao and Martha Nelson
  mBio, June 5, 2018
• Related news: Dogs carry a surprising variety of flu viruses
  Science News, June 5, 2018
• Related news: Dogs can be a potential risk for future influenza pandemic
  American Society for Microbiology news, June 5, 2018
• HIV vaccine elicits antibodies in animals that neutralize dozens of HIV strains
  NIH study results represent major advance for structure-based HIV vaccine design
  NIAID/NIH news, June 4, 2018

May 2018

• Tracing spread of Zika virus in the Americas
  Blog post by NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins, May 29, 2018
• NIH begins testing Ebola treatment in early-stage trial
  NIAID/NIH news, May 23, 2018
• Strong clinical research capacity in at-risk countries key to global epidemic prevention
  The World Bank news, May 22, 2018
• NIH-funded researchers identify target for chikungunya treatment
  NIAID/NIH news, May 21, 2018
• In utero exposure to carbon monoxide increases infants' risk of poor lung function co-authored by Fogarty scientist Dr. Ashlinn Quinn
  American Thoracic Society news, May 20, 2018
• NIH statement on HIV Vaccine Awareness Day
  NIAID/NIH news, May 18, 2018
• Experimental MERS treatments enter clinical trial
  NIAID/NIH news, May 18, 2018
• Tagging essential malaria genes to advance drug development
  Blog post by NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins, May 15, 2018
• Roger Glass: celebrating the Fogarty at 50
  The Lancet, May 5, 2018
• NIAID-sponsored trial of a universal influenza vaccine begins
  NIAID/NIH news, May 4, 2018
• Essential malaria parasite genes revealed
  NIAID/NIH news, May 3, 2018
• Whole-exome sequencing reveals uncaptured variation and distinct ancestry in the southern African population of Botswana from the H3Africa Consortium
  American Journal of Human Genetics courtesy of PubMed, May 3, 2018
• Fogarty's 50 years and new frontiers
  Global Health NOW, May 2, 2018
• Grantee news: Nurse-led task shifting an effective strategy to control hypertension in Ghana
  NYU School of Medicine news, May 1, 2018
• Related publciatoin: Health insurance coverage with or without a nurse-led task shifting strategy for hypertension control: A pragmatic cluster randomized trial in Ghana supported by NHLBI as a part of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) network
  PLOS Medicine, May 1, 2018
• Issue: The Path to US-Cuba Health and Science Cooperation [Open Access], including articles on collaboration and cooperation with NIH
  MEDICC Review: International Journal of Cuban Health and Medicine, April 2018

April 2018

• Special Issue on the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and the Nursing Education Partnership Initiative (NEPI)
  Annals of Global Health, April 30, 2018
• Grantee news: UB receives $1.1 million to improve study of Zika, dengue, HIV, hepatitis and other viruses in Jamaica
  University at Buffalo news, April 24, 2018
• On 50th anniversary, Fogarty reviews progress
• NIH, Fogarty discuss health inequities at Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) annual meeting
• We have come so far, yet much remains to be done
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Focus on adolescent health research:
• Fogarty's adolescent research key to future good health
• Teen pregnancy can impact health for a lifetime
• Healthy habits in teens help reduce noncommunicable disease burden
• HIV/AIDS a key battleground for teen health researchers
• Low-cost mental health innovation enables access to care in Africa, US
• Advancing research in Peru: Q and A with Dr Patricia Garcia
• Profile: Armed with career development award, former Fogarty Fellow fights rheumatic heart disease in Malawi
• Research!America honors Fogarty Director Roger Glass
• People in the news - April 2018
• Global health briefs - April 2018
• Japanese and US researchers celebrate partnerships at 2018 JSPS-NIH Forum
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) news, April 23, 2018
• Celebrating global health with Fogarty International Center
  Johns Hopkins Nursing magazine, April 17, 2018
• Genetically altered broadly neutralizing antibodies protect monkeys from HIV-like virus
  NIAID/NIH news, April 16, 2018
• Grantee news: Higher cigarette prices would save millions of people from extreme poverty and poor health around the world
  St. Michael's Hospital, April 12, 2018
• Air-pollution trackers seek to fill Africa’s data gap with support from the GEOHealth program
  Nature, April 11, 2018
• New biological research framework for Alzheimer's to spur discovery
  NIA/NIH news, April 10, 2018
• Research offers clues for improved influenza vaccine design
  NIAID/NIH media advisory, April 6, 2018

March 2018

• Research!America honors Fogarty Director Roger Glass
  Fogarty news, March 23, 2018
• NIH scientists say advanced vaccines could limit future outbreaks
  NIAID/NIH news, March 22, 2018
• Funding innovation in neglected diseases, co-authored by Fogarty Deputy Director Dr. Peter H. Kilmarx
  BMJ, March 20, 2018
• Newly described human antibody prevents malaria in mice
  NIAID/NIH news, March 19, 2018
• Fogarty- and NIH-related sessions at 2018 Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) annual meeting
  Fogarty news, March 12, 2018
• NIH experts call for transformative research approach to end tuberculosis
  NIAID/NIH news, March 9, 2018
• Monoclonal antibodies crucial to fighting emerging infectious diseases, say NIH officials
  NIAID/NIH news, March 8, 2018
• Antiviral drug not beneficial for reducing mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B when added to existing preventatives: NIH-funded study [in Thailand] observes no significant reduction of infection rates at age 6 months
  NICHD/NIH news, March 7, 2018
• Infection forecasts powered by big data, featuring Fogarty scientist Dr. Cecile Viboud
  Nature Outlook, March 7, 2018
• High uptake and use of vaginal ring for HIV prevention observed in open-label study
  NIAID/NIH news, March 6, 2018
• How historical disease detectives are solving mysteries of the 1918 flu, co-authored by Fogarty-affiliated Dr. Gerardo Chowell, and Fogarty Senior Research Scientist Dr. Cecile Viboud
  The Conversation, March 5, 2018
• One-month tuberculosis prophylaxis as effective as nine-month regimen for people living with HIV
  NIAID/NIH news, March 5, 2018

February 2018

• NIAID unveils strategic plan for developing a universal influenza vaccine
  NIAID/NIH news, February 28, 2018
• A Universal Influenza Vaccine: The Strategic Plan for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
  The Journal of Infectious Diseases, February 28, 2018
• A review of the 1918 herald pandemic wave: importance for contemporary pandemic response strategies, co-authored by Fogarty scientists
  Annals of Epidemiology, February 27, 2018
• Grantee news: Texting can enhance medical education in resource-limited settings
  Boston Unviersity School of Public Health news, February 27, 2018
• Fogarty continues to advance African health education
• Making the case for African investment in research
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Focus on multigenerational research training:
• Multigenerational research in South Africa leads to HIV discoveries
• Generations of mentorship improve health in Haiti
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr. Brian Hall studied health of African migrants to China
• Q and A with Dr Andrew Dykens: Collaboration with Peace Corps in Senegal enhances Fogarty career development award
• NIH scientists update Congress on global Alzheimer’s disease epidemic
• TDR survey shows effectiveness of training program
• Innovation and global health leadership celebrated with Global Health Technologies Coalition award
• Fogarty provides training to build expertise in managing disease outbreaks
• People in the news - February 2018
• Global health briefs - February 2018
• Grantee news: Children in developing countries can benefit from proton therapy
  medicalphysicsweb, February 22, 2018
• NIEHS and Fogarty program support research to improve global brain health
  NIEHS/NIH Global Environmental Health newsletter, February 2018
• Building capacity in Africa for genomics and environmental health research
  NIEHS/NIH Global Environmental Health newsletter, February 2018
• Genomics centre in Cape Town to decode genes
  South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) news, February 14, 2018
• Open data sharing and the Global South - Who benefits?
  Science, February 9, 2018
• Ebola virus infects reproductive organs in monkeys
  NIAID/NIH news, February 8, 2018
• Grantee news: [NIH funded] research shows 9zest app guided at home therapy helps in stroke rehabilitation
  Business Wire, February 6, 2018
• Related publication: Pilot trial of a tele-rehab intervention to improve outcomes after stroke in Ghana: A feasibility and user satisfaction study
  Journal of Neurological Sciences via PubMed, February 1, 2018 (online)
• The impact of a Fogarty International Center-supported tuberculosis research training program in the country of Georgia
  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, February 5, 2018

January 2018

• The Fogarty International Center at 50: accomplishments and priorities for the next 50 years by Dr. Paul K. Drain, former Fogarty Scholar, and King K. Holmes, Fogarty Advisory Board member
  Clinical Infectious Diseases, January 31, 2018
• 15 years later, PEPFAR continues to save lives
  NIAID experts highlight federal program's unprecedented impact on HIV pandemic
  NIAID/NIH news, January 24, 2018
• Related publication: PEPFAR - 15 years and counting the lives saved
  by NIAID's Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., and Robert W. Eisinger, Ph.D.
  New England Journal of Medicine, January 25, 2018
• WHO grants prequalification to Bharat Biotech's rotavirus vaccine, ROTAVAC(r)
  featuring Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass, who contributed to the development process
  Bharat Biotech news courtesy of Business Wire, January 24, 2018
• Grantee news: Link found between genes in mosquitos and the spread of diseases, fragments of transfer RNA molecules may hold the key to halting the spread of dengue fever, other diseases, supported in part by Fogarty and NIAID
  University of Missouri news, January 24, 2018
• Study links gut-homing protein levels with HIV infection risk, disease progression
  NIAID/NIH news, January 24, 2018
• Related publication: Integrin α4β7 expression on peripheral blood CD4+ T cells predicts HIV acquisition and disease progression outcomes
  Science Translational Medicine, January 24, 2018
• NIH begins large HIV treatment study in pregnant women, clinical trial will compare three antiretroviral drug regimens
  NIAID/NIH news, January 24, 2018
• Zika infection during pregnancy may disrupt fetal oxygen supply
  NICHD/NIH news, January 18, 2018
• Related publication: Zika virus infection in pregnant rhesus macaques causes placental dysfunction and immunopathology
  Nature Communications, January 17, 2018
• NIH study supports use of short-term HIV treatment interruption in clinical trials
  NIAID/NIH news, January 11, 2018
• MERS antibodies produced in cattle safe, treatment well tolerated in Phase 1 trial
  NIAID/NIH news, January 10, 2018
• Updates from the Center for Global Health Studies
  Fogarty news, January 9, 2018

December 2017

• Zika remains a research and public health challenge, say NIAID scientists
  NIAID/NIH news, December 21, 2017
• Zika virus: A new threat emerges
  Supplement to The Journal of Infectious Diseases, December 15, 2017
• Grantee news: One-time hydrocephalus operation, alternative to shunting, brings good outcomes for babies
  Boston Children's Hospital Vector blog, December 21, 2017
• Proceedings from the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR)’s “Ethics of Research in Pregnancy” meeting
  Supplement to Reproductive Health, December 14, 2017
• Clean cooking and the SDGs: Integrated analytical approaches to guide energy interventions for health and environment goals co-authored by Fogarty scientists
  Energy for Sustainable Development via ScienceDirect, December 8, 2017 (online)
• Top global health research stories of 2017
  Fogarty news, December 7, 2017
• Grantee news: Brazil's babies [Fogarty grantee Dr Albert Ko redirects leptospirosis research to study Zika]
  Yale School of Public Health news, December 6, 2017
• Gene-based Zika vaccine is safe and immunogenic in healthy adults
  NIAID/NIH news, December 4, 2017
• Trials show inactivated Zika virus vaccine is safe and immunogenic, results support further clinical development
  NIAID/NIH news, December 4, 2017
• NIH Statement on World AIDS Day 2017
  NIAID/NIH news, December 1, 2017

November 2017

• NIH and partners launch HIV vaccine efficacy study, Public-private partnership begins clinical trial in sub-Saharan Africa
  NIAID/NIH news, November 30, 2017
• NIH launches HIV prevention trial of long-acting injectable medication in sexually active women
  NIAID/NIH news, November 30, 2017
• Combination HIV prevention reduces new infections by 42 percent in Ugandan district: NIH-supported study provides evidence for implementing approach broadly
  NIAID/NIH news, November 29, 2017
• Scientists gather to celebrate Fogarty’s Global Infectious Disease research training program
• Some Fogarty applicants tripped up by NIH appendix policy
• NIH urges grantees to publish only in credible journals
• Focus: Fogarty is building research capacity to fight noncommunicable diseases
• Customizing stroke prevention research in Pakistani population
• Energizing psychiatric research in Egypt, India
• Training Africans to fight NCDs in Africa
• Examining diet's role in NCDs in Nigeria
• Studying food industry’s impact on obesity in Latin America
• Grateful for progress toward a disease-free world
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Mohammad Aminul Islam battles antimicrobial resistance in Bangladesh
• Q and A with Dr John Nkengasong, director of Africa CDC and former Fogarty trainee
• Global Health Technology Coalition unveils fact sheets
• People in the news - November 2017
• Global health briefs - November 2017
• Emerging global health leaders receive $5M in research support
  Fogarty news, November 16, 2017
• Grantee news: Fogarty grantee Dr Najeeha Iqbal is stopping malnutrition in its tracks
  Aga Khan University news, November 27, 2017
• Air pollution exposure in early pregnancy linked to miscarriage, NIH study suggests
  NICHD/NIH news, November 16, 2017
• Early-career scientists receive $3.3M to help establish independent research careers
  Fogarty news, November 15, 2017
• What recent history has taught us about responding to emerging infectious disease threats, co-authored by NIAID Director Dr. Anthony S. Fauci
  Annals of Internal Medicine, November 14, 2017
• The critical role of biomedical research in pandemic preparedness, co-authored by NIAID Director Dr. Anthony S. Fauci
  JAMA Viewpoint, November 14, 2017
• Imagine a disease-free world
  Blog post by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass for Public Health Thank You Day
  Research!America news, November 13, 2017
• National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) selects Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass to receive 2018 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award
  NFID news, November 9, 2017
• Cellphone-based microscope leads to possible strategy for treating river blindness
  NIAID/NIH news, November 8, 2017
• Lower-income countries that face the most rapid shift in noncommunicable disease burden are also the least prepared
  Health Affairs, November 6, 2017
• NSF, NIH and USDA make new awards to combat infectious diseases
  National Science Foundation news, November 3, 2017
• Grantee news: Teen childbirth linked to increased risk for heart disease
  American Heart Association news, November 1, 2017

October 2017

• NIH study identifies new targets for anti-malaria drugs
  NICHD/NIH news, October 26, 2017
• Grantee news: US helps Pakistan, Afghanistan improve trauma care
  ShareAmerica, October 23, 2017
• High doses of vitamin D3 may decrease bone loss associated with anti-HIV drug
  NICHD/NIH news, October 20, 2017
• Medical education in decentralized settings: how [MEPI] medical students contribute to health care in 10 sub-Saharan African countries
  Academic Medicine, October 17, 2017
• Grantees assess long-term benefits of Fogarty training during session at global AIDS meeting
• Q and A with former Fogarty trainee, Dr Linda-Gail Bekker, President of the International AIDS Society
• NIH-supported HIV research spawns new hope
• US Senate proposes $2M funding increase for Fogarty
• Fogarty funds additional grants to support research training in Ebola-affected countries
• How can we conduct research in humanitarian crises?
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Dorothy Dow studies suicide prevention in teens with HIV in Tanzania
• Focus: Preventing childhood obesity in Latin America
• Tech designed for Africa helps US fight disease, save money
• Funding partners relaunch World Report
• Four new members join Fogarty advisory board
• Fogarty grantee icddr,b receives Hilton Humanitarian Prize
• People in the news - October 2017
• Global health briefs - October 2017
• Experimental Ebola vaccines elicit year-long immune response
  NIAID/NIH news, October 11, 2017
• Findings from MAL-ED: The significant role of malnutrition, intestinal infection and disease on child development
  Q and A with Michael Gottlieb, Ph.D., FNIH deputy director of science
  Foundation for NIH news, October 11, 2017
• Global health: what’s in it for us? by former Fogarty Fellow Dr. Satish Gopal
  JAMA, October 10, 2017
• Multiple research approaches are key to pandemic preparedness, NIAID officials say
  NIAID/NIH news, October 5, 2017
• Grantee news: UTHealth researchers receive $2.6 million to study gene-environment interactions in cocaine addiction
  Univerity of Texas Health Science Center at Houston news, October 2, 2017
• Global Environmental Health Day emphasizes community involvement
  NIEHS/NIH news, October 2017
• Geospatial analysis of household spread of Ebola virus in a quarantined village - Sierra Leone, 2014
  Epidemiology and Infection, October 2017

September 2017

• HIV research training grantees receive supplements to focus on behavioral, social sciences
  Fogarty news, September 28, 2017
• Disease resistance successfully spread from modified to wild mosquitoes
  NIAID/NIH news, September 28, 2017
• Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass to receive 2018 Advocacy Award from Research!America
  Research!America news, September 26, 2017
• Fogarty awards $5M for bioinformatics research training in Africa
  Fogarty news, September 25, 2017
• Fogarty awards $10.7M to build tobacco control and prevention research capacity in developing countries
  Fogarty news, September 20, 2017
• Grantee news: NIH supports Emory tobacco control models in Eastern Europe
  Emory news, September 27, 2017
• Grantee news: Loma Linda University researchers awarded $1.4 million NIH grant to study tobacco control in Asia
  Loma Linda University Health news, September 19, 2017
• Three-in-one antibody protects monkeys from HIV-like virus
  NIAID/NIH news, September 20, 2017
• $11.5M awarded from Fogarty to train HIV researchers
  Fogarty news, updated September 18, 2017
• 100 years after the lethal 1918 flu pandemic, we are still vulnerable
  Scientific American, September 15, 2017
• Medical Education Partnership Initiative gives birth to AFREhealth
  The Lancet Global Health, September 15, 2017 (online)
• In Haiti, a building fights cholera, featuring Fogarty grantee Dr. Bill Pape of GHESKIO and Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass
  New York Times, September 12, 2017
• Congress rejects president's FY 2018 proposals to cut health research funds
  New York Times, September 11, 2017
• Grantee news: Purdue researchers receive grant to improve mobile testing for anemia
  Purdue University news, September 8, 2017
• Editorials from the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, September 2017:
• The Fogarty International Center is essential to global health security
  by the Honorable John Edward Porter
• Let's eliminate diseases, not Institutes: the case for the Fogarty International Center
  by Dr. Philip J. Rosenthal, Karen A. Goraleski, Dr. N. Regina Rabinovich and Dr. Patricia F. Walker
• Congressman John E. Fogarty: a champion for global health
  by Mary Fogarty McAndrew
• Advocating for the Fogarty International Center: an unsung hero for global health research and development
  by Jamie Bay Nishi of the Global Health Technologies Coalition
• Global Brain Disorders grantee news from The Lancet Global Health, September 2017:
• Comment: Cassava, konzo, and neurotoxicity
• Article: Cognitive and motor performance in Congolese children with konzo during 4 years of follow-up: a longitudinal analysis
• Related Fogarty newsletter article: Cassava root causes cognitive damage in Congolese villages
  Jan/Feb 2014 Global Health Matters
• CWRU and University Hospitals Physician-Researcher Martha Sajatovic receives international brain health grant
  Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine news, September 6, 2017
• Drug combination reduces risk of HIV infection among teen males
  NICHD/NIH news, September 5, 2017
• Zika virus selectively infects and kills glioblastoma cells in mice
  NIAID/NIH news, September 5, 2017
• GloCal fellows: Getting into the trenches for global health research
  University of California Global Health Institute news, September 1, 2017

August 2017

• NIAID scientists illuminate mechanism of increased cardiovascular risks with HIV
  NIAID/NIH news, August 30, 2017
• Probiotic prevents infant infections in rural India
  NIH Research Matters, August 29, 2017
• Grantee news: Untangled web: Mapping environmental, economic and health factors may point the way to sustainable development
  Harvard Medical School news, August 7, 2017
• WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus consults with NIH during US tour
• US House of Representatives proposal preserves Fogarty, boosts NIH by $1B
• NIH CTSA Program may benefit from global health research collaborations
• Focus on the International Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA) program
• Fogarty investment in early-career scientists pays off
• IRSDA alumna Dr Marcy Balunas explores marine life to find new cancer drugs
• Fogarty support launches career in infectious diseases for Dr Jeffrey Bethony
• Cardiologist Dr Thomas Gaziano examines cost-effective strategies
• How can we encourage female leaders in global health?
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• US university consortia receive $26M to train early-career global health researchers
• Q and A with Dr Peter Singer of Grand Challenges Canada
• First fellow graduates from NIH-Rwanda program
• NIMH's Dr Pamela Collins leaves NIH to head global mental health at University of Washington
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Lily Gutnik boosts breast cancer screening in Malawi
• CDC exhibit explores Ebola outbreak, aftermath
• People in the news - August 2017
• Global health briefs - August 2017
• Pioneering HIV researchers tell how public health leadership started with Fogarty fellowships from the International AIDS Society (IAS) 2017 conference
  Science Speaks, August 1, 2017
• Cuts to NIH program could disrupt infectious disease research at Mass General and around the world
  Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute news, August 2017

July 2017

• Closing the NIH Fogarty Center threatens US and global health
  The Lancet, July 29, 2017
• Ending AIDS through research training and capacity building in low- and middle-income countries: lessons learned and future directions [Video]
  Fogarty@50 session at the International AIDS Symposium (IAS), July 25, 2017
• Experimental HIV vaccine regimen is well-tolerated, elicits immune responses
  NIAID/NIH news, July 24, 2017
• Drug interaction concerns may negatively affect HIV treatment adherence among transgender women
  NIAID/NIH news, July 24, 2017
• Child living with HIV maintains remission without drugs since 2008
  NIAID/NIH news, July 24, 2017
• US university consortia receive $26M to train early-career global health researchers
  Fogarty news, July 17, 2017
• 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
• Experimental Zika virus vaccines restrict in utero virus transmission in mice
  NIAID/NIH media advisory, July 13, 2017
• NIH-funded team uses smartphone data in global study of physical activity
  NIBIB/NIH news, July 10, 2017
• Related publication: Large-scale physical activity data reveal worldwide activity inequality
  Nature, July 10, 2017 (online)
• ​NIH launches prospective study of Zika and HIV co-infection during pregnancy​
  NICHD/NIH news, July 10, 2017
• Malaria drug protects fetal mice from Zika virus, NIH-funded study finds
  NICHD/NIH news, July 10, 2017
• Related publication: Inhibition of autophagy limits vertical transmission of Zika virus in pregnant mice
  The Journal of Experimental Medicine, July 10, 2017
• Preserving the Fogarty International Center - benefits for Americans and the world, co-authored by former Fogarty Scholar and Fogarty Fellow, and current Fogarty grantee
  New England Journal of Medicine Perspective, July 6, 2017
• Interview with Dr. Paul Drain on proposed NIH budget cuts, including elimination of Fogarty [podcast]

June 2017

• Congressional appropriators consider Fogarty's impact
• Fogarty cheered by supporters at CUGH annual meeting
• FOCUS: how Americans benefit from global health research
• Zika vaccine trial site in Peru led by Fogarty trainee
• Fogarty-supported Chagas, dengue researchers redirect efforts to tackle Zika virus
• HIV research by Fogarty trainees brings changes to US treatment protocols
• Fogarty trainees study Colombian family for clues to prevent Alzheimer's
• Related news: Can Alzheimer's be prevented? An extended family in Colombia with a genetic mutation causing Alzheimer's may help scientists prevent the disease someday
  60 Minutes, July 9, 2017
• Fogarty protects US by strengthening pandemic response in West Africa
• Opinion: Empowering developing countries to direct their own research
  by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Co-founder of Fogarty’s RAPIDD modeling program Dr Ellis McKenzie is remembered
• Q and A with Dr Elioda Tumwesigye, former Fogarty trainee and Ugandan Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation
• People in the news - June 2017
• Global health briefs - June 2017
• The impact of Fogarty training has been extraordinary
  Science Speaks, June 22, 2017
• Study to examine effects of Zika infection in Guatemalan infants and children
  NIAID/NIH news, June 19, 2017
• Exhibit: Ebola: People + Public Health + Political Will
  at the David J. Sencer CDC Museum, opened June 19, 2017
• US stands to lose as much as Africa if Fogarty closes
  University World News, June 16, 2017
• Grantee news: Plant compound more powerful than AZT against HIV, supported in part by the NIH and NSF International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups (ICBG)
  University of Illinois, Chicago news, June 14, 2017
• Grantee news: New York State International Training and Research Program receives $1.5M to conduct HIV research training program in Ukraine
  SUNY Downstate Medical Center news, June 13, 2017
• Grantee news: YSPH grant to train health professionals in China in bioethics renewed
  Yale School of Public Health news, June 13, 2017
• NIH cuts proposed in president’s budget would extend far beyond US by Fogarty grantee Dr. Andrew Dykens
  Kansas City Star, June 11, 2017
• Fund global health: Save lives and money co-authored by Fogarty grantees
  Science, June 9, 2018
• Fogarty International Center, a linchpin of global health research
  JAMA, June 6, 2017
• The Fogarty International Center, a national treasure for global health
  JAMA Forum, April 27, 2017
• NIAID-sponsored trial of experimental chikungunya vaccine begins
  NIAID/NIH news, June 5, 2017
• Details of Lassa virus structure could inform development of vaccines, therapies
  NIAID/NIH news, June 2, 2017
• Global health experts call on Trump to protect the Fogarty Center from elimination
  Devex news, June 1, 2017

May 2017

• Preserving the Fogarty International Center - benefits for Americans and the world
  co-authored by former Fogarty Scholar and Fogarty Fellow, and current Fogarty grantee
  New England Journal of Medicine Perspective, May 24, 2017 (online)
• Zika virus spread undetected for many months, NIH-supported study finds
  NIAID/NIH news, May 24, 2017
• Related publications co-authored by Fogarty's Dr. Andrew Rambaut
  Nature, May 24, 2017:
• Zika virus evolution and spread in the Americas
• Genomic epidemiology reveals multiple introductions of Zika virus into the United States
• Establishment and cryptic transmission of Zika virus in Brazil and the Americas
• Statement of the ASM on the administration's FY 2018 budget to Congress
  American Society for Microbiology (ASM) statement, May 23, 2017
• Key Republican wants to honor legacy of late Representative John Edward Fogarty
  Bloomberg news, May 19, 2017
• Fogarty-supported Chagas, dengue research teams help tackle Zika outbreak
  Fogarty news, May 16, 2017
• HIV treatment approach in US result of global research conducted by Fogarty trainees
  Fogarty news, May 26, 2017
• NIH malaria research benefits from Fogarty training programs
  Fogarty news, May 16, 2017
• Americans lose when funds for global health research are cut
  Opinion by Dr. Jennifer Slyker of the University of Washington
  The Seattle Times, May 14, 2017
• Fogarty trainee heads Zika vaccine trial site in Peru
  Fogarty news, May 9, 2017
• Fogarty trainees study Colombian family for clues to prevent Alzheimer's
  Fogarty news, May 1, 2017

April 2017

• Zika virus persists in the central nervous system and lymph nodes of Rhesus monkeys
  NIAID/NIH news, April 28, 2017
• NIH funds seven International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research that work in 14 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America
  NIAID/NIH news, April 21, 2017
• Why President Trump should use foreign aid for health [including NIH research] to make America great, co-authored by Dr. Sten Vermund, Fogarty grantee and Fogarty Advisory Board member emeritus
  Health Affairs blog, April 17, 2017
• Academia takes on global health
  Research and Evaluation (R&E) Search for Evidence blog, April 12, 2017
• Cutting collaborations will not put 'America first'
  Nature, April 11, 2017
• CUGH 2017: The lessons of global health come home in Fogarty fellow stories, questions, plans
  Science Speaks, April 10, 2017
• Value of the Fogarty Fellowship: When it comes to taking care of patients, Tanzania and North Carolina have a lot in common
  Duke Global Health Institute news, April 10, 2017
• Fogarty's essential role in implementation by Dr. Arthur Ammann
  PLOS Blogs, April 6, 2017
• Fogarty protects Americans by building pandemic response capacity in Ebola-hit West Africa
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Gilberte Bastien tackles Ebola's unseen mental scars in Liberia
• NIH leaders, grantees to present at Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) 2017 meeting
• Viewpoint: Dr Ruth Nduati, University of Nairobi
• Viewpoint: Dr Elioda Tumwesigye, Uganda Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation
• International scientific teams find potential approach against parasites
  NCATS/NIH news, April 3, 2017
• We must protect the Fogarty International Center - it is a truly exceptional global health resource
  Nature Microbiology, April 1, 2017

March 2017

• Phase 2 Zika vaccine trial begins in U.S., Central and South America
  NIAID/NIH news, March 31, 2017
• Scientific drought, golden eggs, and global leadership - Why Trump's NIH funding cuts would be a disaster
  New England Journal of Medicine, March 29, 2017 (online)
• This NIH program is crucial to global health. And its future is in danger
  by Dr. Arthur L. Reingold, Fogarty grantee, and Dr. Madhukar Pai, Fogarty trainee
  Stat, March 29, 2017
• Global health leadership role at risk in Trump budget
  by Fogarty Advisory Board members Drs. Michele Barry and Derek Yach
  USA Today, March 28, 2017
• Trump proposes shuttering NIH program that promotes medical research overseas
  Stat, March 16, 2017
• Trump plan eliminates a global sentinel against disease, experts warn
  New York Times, March 16, 2017
• Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Initiative fosters collaboration
  Blog post by NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins, March 23, 2017
• Rwandan physician will bring home lessons learned at NIH
  NIH Catalyst, March-April 2017

February 2017

• Open Science Prize announces epidemic tracking tool as grand prize winner
  NLM/NIH news, February 28, 2017
• Grantee news: [Johns Hopkins] health systems program receives NIH grant for mHealth project in Uganda
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health news, February 27, 2017
• NIH begins study of vaccine to protect against mosquito-borne diseases
  NIAID/NIH news, February 21, 2017
• Experimental PfSPZ malaria vaccine provides durable protection against multiple strains in NIH clinical trial
  NIAID/NIH news, February 21, 2017
• Related publication: PfSPZ vaccine induces strain-transcending T cells and durable protection against heterologous controlled human malaria infection
  PNAS, February 21, 2017 (online)
• Investigational PfSPZ malaria vaccine demonstrates considerable protection in Malian adults for duration of malaria season
  NIAID/NIH news, February 16, 2017
• Related publication: Safety and efficacy of PfSPZ Vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum via direct venous inoculation in healthy malaria-exposed adults in Mali: a randomised, double-blind phase 1 trial
  The Lancet Infectious Diseases, February 15, 2017 (online)
• International study suggests Nodding syndrome caused by response to parasitic protein
  NINDS/NIH news, February 15, 2017
• Related publication: Nodding syndrome may be an autoimmune reaction to the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus
  Science Translational Medicine, February 15, 2017
• Rare disease mystery: Nodding syndrome may be linked to parasitic worm
  Blog post by NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins, February 28, 2017
• Disease ‘superspreaders’ accounted for nearly two-thirds of Ebola cases, study finds
  Washington Post, February 13, 2017
• Related publication: Spatial and temporal dynamics of superspreading events in the 2014–2015 West Africa Ebola epidemic, co-authored by Fogarty Scientist
  PNAS, February 13, 2017 (online)
• The vital case for global health investments by the United States government
  by Dr. Sten H. Vermund, current Fogarty grantee and emeritus member of the Fogarty Advisory Board
  Clinical Infectious Diseases, February 2, 2017

January 2017

• New awards provide mentored career development for promising global health researchers
  Fogarty news, January 31, 2017
• Humanitarian Paul Farmer discusses global health equity
• Focus: Big data for infectious disease surveillance, modeling
• Fogarty invests $10M in trauma, injury training
• Grantee news: Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit receives NIH Grant on Trauma and Injury Research Training in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit news, February 6, 2017
• Looking forward to 2017 with optimism
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Q and A with former Fogarty trainee Dr Soumya Swaminathan of the Indian Council of Medical Research
• Profile: Fogarty Global Health Fellow Dr Emmanuel Balandya studies sickle cell immunity
• Analysis shows return on investment for global health R&D
• People in the news - January 2017
• Global health briefs - January 2017
• Final rule enhances protections for research participants, modernizes oversight system
  HHS news, January 18, 2017
• Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects
  Federal Register, January 19, 2017
• Africa's future depends on its scientists. Time to stop the brain drain
  World Economic Forum news, January 18, 2017
• Tobacco control can save billions of dollars and millions of lives
  WHO news release, January 10, 2017

• Report: The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control (Monograph 21)
  from the WHO and the National Cancer Institute at NIH, released January 10, 2017
• The global economic burden of tobacco: An interview with Dr. Mark Parascandola
  Cancer Currents blog, January 18, 2017
• Updates from the Center for Global Health Studies
  Fogarty news, January 5, 2017
• Implementation science to accelerate clean cooking for public health
  Environmental Health Perspectives, January 2017

December 2016

• Final trial results confirm Ebola vaccine provides high protection against disease
  WHO news release, December 23, 2016
• Grantee news: Challenges remain in HIV care in Africa
  University of Rochester Medical Center news, December 21, 2016
• What are the top global health research stories of 2016?
  Fogarty news, December 15, 2016
• Global health community pays tribute to NIH Director Dr Francis S Collins
• Recognizing NIH Director Dr Francis S Collins, a global health hero
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• NIH Director Dr Francis S Collins discusses the value of global health research and training
• Fogarty provides support to Ebola-affected countries
• Focus on the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS):
• Developing neurological research capacity in LMICs
• Chagas disease studies inform Zika research in Brazil
• NIH funds research network to reduce stroke in Africa
• NIH-funded trial to assess benefits of clean cookstoves
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Laura Lewandowski studies lupus in South African children
• Global research funders launch World Report tool to aid funding analysis
• NIH gathers experts to discuss Zika and child development
• People in the news - December 2016
• Global health briefs - December 2016
• Building regional capacity for environmental and occupational health research in West Africa
  NIEHS/NIH Global Environmental Health newsletter, December 2016

November 2016

• First new HIV vaccine efficacy study in seven years has begun
  South Africa hosts historic NIH-supported clinical trial
  NIAID/NIH news, November 28, 2016
• Birth year predicts bird flu risk
  Blog post by NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins, November 22, 2016
• Related publication: First flu is forever, co-authored by Fogarty's Dr Cecile Viboud
  Science, November 11, 2016
• Related publication: Potent protection against H5N1 and H7N9 influenza via childhood hemagglutinin imprinting
  Science, November 11, 2016
• Your flu risk may be linked to the year you were born, featuring Fogarty's Dr Cecile Viboud
  CNN, November 10, 2016
• New study finds clean cookstoves may improve women's heart health
  Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves news, November 21, 2016
• NIH-led effort examines use of big data for infectious disease surveillance
  Fogarty/NIH news, November 14, 2016
• Related publication: Big Data for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Modeling
  Supplement to the Journal of Infectious Diseases, December 1, 2016
• Georgetown Unviersity Medical Center selects global health champion [Fogarty Director] Roger I Glass as recipient of highest award
  Georgetown Unviersity Medical Center news, November 11, 2016
• The promise of a strong US-Cuba health partnership
  State Department DipNote blog post by HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, November 7, 2016
• Testing of investigational inactivated Zika vaccine in humans begins
  NIAID/NIH news, November 7, 2016
• Ebola virus glycoprotein with increased infectivity dominated the 2013–2016 epidemic (supported by NIH)
  Cell, November 3, 2016
• Timing and periodicity of influenza epidemics
  co-authored by Fogarty's Dr. Cecile Viboud
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), November 3, 2016 (online)
• Fogarty awards $3.8M in exploratory grants for chronic disease and injury research
  Fogarty news, November 3, 2016
• Five viruses added to HHS report on carcinogens
  NIH news, November 3, 2016
• Grantee news: Mexico's soda tax could reduce diabetes, heart disease and health costs, new study [supported in part by Fogarty] finds
  University of California San Francisco news, November 1, 2016

October 2016

• Grantee news: Data indicate significant impact of NIH African bioethics training programs
  Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics news, Oct 31, 2016
• Related publication: Bioethics training programmes for Africa: evaluating professional and bioethics-related achievements of African trainees after a decade of Fogarty NIH investment
  BMJ Open, September 15, 2016
• Ebola-affected countries receive NIH support to strengthen research capacity
  Fogarty/NIH news, October 26, 2016
• Charles A Sanders Partnership Award recipients [Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Pfizer] announced
  Foundation for the National Institutes of Health news, October 19, 2016
• NIH contributes to global effort to prevent and manage lung diseases
  NIH-funded trial will measure health benefits of clean cookstoves
  Fogarty/NIH news, October 19, 2016
• NIH awards $30M to Emory, Johns Hopkins, Colorado State for household air pollution study
  Emory University news, October 18, 2016
• Emory, Johns Hopkins researchers get $30M to study household air pollution
  Atlanta Business Chronicle, October 26, 2016
• Hopkins to use $30 million grant to study impact of cooking methods on air pollution
  Baltimore Sun, November 7, 2016
• Women report vaginal ring for preventing HIV [as part of NIAID-supported trial] had little effect on sexual intercourse
  NIAID/NIH news, October 18, 2016
• National Academy of Medicine elects 79 new members, including former Fogarty grantees Dr. Patricia J. Garcia and Dr. Prabhat Jha
  National Academy of Medicine news, October 17, 2016
• US and EU sign implementing arrangement on Horizon 2020
  US Mission to the European Union news, October 17, 2016
• NIH project focuses on integration of HIV and NCD care
  The Lancet, October 15, 2016
• Study finds Ebola treatment ZMapp holds promise, although results not definitive
  NIAID/NIH news, October 13, 2016
• A path to global health security
  HHS Blog, October 12, 2016
• Event: Development is not destiny: Launching the 2015 Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study
  Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), October 7, 2016
• Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2015
  Special issue of The Lancet, October 8, 2016
• Uganda National Council of Science and Technology (UNCST) signs MoU [with NIH] to support Ugandan scientists, research
  New Vision - Uganda, October 5, 2016

September 2016

• US-India joint effort targets genes and traits to improve glaucoma screening, prevention and treatment
  National Eye Institute news, September 29, 2016
• Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases tackles the global burden of lung diseases
  Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases news, September 27, 2016
• African medical education program enters next phase
• Continuing to strengthen science capacity in Africa
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Fogarty awards $3M to support emerging research leaders in developing countries
• HHS makes progress on Zika, yellow fever vaccines
• Focus on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at 70:
  CDC celebrates 70 years of global health leadership
• Cuba is new site for NIH-funded research training program
• Fogarty program develops bioethics expertise in Uganda
• Q and A with Fabio Mesquita: Building global HIV research capacity
• Profile: Fulbright-Fogarty Fellow Dr Brie Falkard studies cholera in children in Bangladesh
• Fogarty posts mHealth training materials
• Child dehydration diagnostic tool validated
• NIH Director advises Fogarty Fellows and Scholars
• People in the news - September 2016
• Global health briefs - September 2016
• Planning grants for global noncommunicable disease research centers announced by National Cancer Institute
  NCI Center for Global Health news, September 21, 2016
• HHS takes steps to provide more information about clinical trials to the public
  NIH news, September 16, 2016
• Federal prize competition seeks innovative ideas to combat antimicrobial resistance
  NIH news, September 8, 2016
• HHS accelerates development of mRNA-based Zika vaccine
  HHS news, September 7, 2016

August 2016

• NIH collaboration helps advance potential Zika treatments
  NIH news, August 29, 2016
• Progress and challenges in scaling up laboratory monitoring of HIV treatment
  co-authored by Fogarty Deputy Director Dr. Peter Kilmarx
  PLOS Medicine, August 23, 2016
• Related publication: Availability and use of HIV monitoring and early infant diagnosis technologies in WHO member states in 2011–2013: Analysis of annual surveys at the facility level
  PLOS Medicine, August 23, 2016
• Addressing NCDs through research and capacity building in LMICs: lessons learned from tobacco control
  Global Health Action, August 19, 2016
• NIAID scientists explore connection between Ebola survival and co-infection with malaria parasites
  NIAID/NIH news, August 16, 2016
• Related publication: Plasmodium Parasitemia Associated with Increased Survival in Ebola Virus-Infected Patients
  Clinical Infectious Diseases, August 15, 2016 (online)
• NIH awards $3M to support emerging research leaders in developing countries
  Fogarty news, August 4, 2016
• NIH begins testing investigational Zika vaccine in humans
  NIAID/NIH, August 3, 2016

July 2016

• HHS forges unprecedented partnership to combat antimicrobial resistance
  HHS news, July 28, 2016
• NIH launches early-stage yellow fever vaccine trial
  NIAID/NIH news, July 27, 2016
• HIV therapy for breastfeeding mothers can virtually eliminate transmission to babies
  NIAID/NICHD/NIH news, July 18, 2016
• Fogarty awards $13M to train HIV researchers in LMICs
• Case Western Reserve Researcher Receives NIH grant for HIV Research in Uganda
  Drs. Henry Boom at CWRU and Moses Joloba at Makerere University will direct effort
  Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine news, July 21, 2016
• University at Albany, Downstate Medical combat AIDS epidemic in Republic of Georgia
  University at Albany news, June 6, 2016
• UB partners with University of Zimbabwe to launch $1.3 million HIV research program
  University at Buffalo news, May 19, 2016
• New York State International Training and Research Program (NYS-ITRP) receives $1.5M from NIH to conduct HIV research training in Kazakhstan
  SUNY Downstate Medical Center news, May 9, 2016
• New grants will help develop expertise in research ethics
• Dartmouth receives renewal grant for international research ethics training
  Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine news, June 22, 2016
• Focus: Using implementation science to reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission
• Related publication: Advancing Implementation Science in Prevention of Maternal-Child HIV Transmission
  Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS) Supplement, June 30, 2016 (online)
• Fogarty training will expand mHealth research capacity
• Partnerships are essential to Fogarty's success
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Q and A with Dr Peter Mason:
  Training researchers in Zimbabwe
• Profile: Fogarty Dental Fellow Lilliam Pinzón studies Mexican children with HIV
• Fogarty trains Pakistani scientists in biorisk management
• People in the news - July 2016
• Global health briefs - July 2016
• NIH expands investment in HIV cure research
  Six research teams to lead collaborative investigations worldwide
  NIAID/NIH news, July 13, 2016
• International collaboration to create new cancer models to accelerate research
  NCI/NIH news, July 11, 2016
• NIH launches largest-ever study of breast cancer genetics in African-ancestry populations
  NCI/NIH news, July 6, 2016
• PREVAIL treatment trial for men with persistent Ebola viral RNA in semen opens in Liberia
  NIAID/NIH news, July 5, 2016
• NIH funds Zika virus study involving U.S. Olympic team:
  Researchers will monitor potential infections among group of U.S. athletes traveling to Brazil
  NICHD/NIH news, July 5, 2016

June 2016

• NIH-led effort uses implementation science approaches to reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission
  NIH/Fogarty news, June 30, 2016
• Related publication: Advancing Implementation Science in Prevention of Maternal-Child HIV Transmission
  Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS) Supplement, June 30, 2016 (online)
• Analysis of 1976 Ebola outbreak holds lessons relevant today
  Fogarty news, June 29, 2016
• Related publication: Discovery and description of Ebola Zaire Virus in 1976 and relevance to the West African epidemic during 2013-2016
  The Journal of Infectious Diseases, June 29, 2016
• History credits [Dr Peter Piot] with discovering Ebola on his own. History is wrong
  STAT, July 14, 2014
• Zika vaccines protect mice from infection
  NIH-funded research suggests human vaccine is possible
  NIAID/NIH news, June 28, 2016
• Related publication: Vaccine protection against Zika virus from Brazil
  Nature, June 28, 2016
• Researchers discover the 2009 swine flu pandemic originated in Mexico
  Mount Sinai Hospital news, June 27, 2016
• Related publication: Origins of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic in swine in Mexico, co-authored by Fogarty scientists
  eLife, June 28, 2016
• Grantee news: Study: One-third of hospitals in developing world lack running water
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health news, June 22, 2016
• NIH launches large [international] study of pregnant women in areas affected by Zika virus
  NIAID/NIH news, June 21, 2016
• Single IRB policy to streamline reviews of multi-site research
  NIH news, June 21, 2016
• HHS engages in historic health collaboration with Cuba
  HHS news, June 13, 2016
• Building global capacity and training to support household air pollution research
  NIEHS Global Environmental Health newsletter, June 2016

May 2016

• Grantee news: Unmet surgical needs high for world’s 60 million refugees
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health news, May 26, 2016
• World leaders and advocates unite in Washington, DC for one mission: Make mental health a global priority
  NIMH/NIH news, May 20, 2016
• Universities consider sustainable future in global health
• Academic partnerships key to success, study says
• Bill Gates visits NIH for ongoing talks
• Fogarty's RAPIDD program has catalyzed the field of infectious disease modeling
• Focus on the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA):
• Advancing research on alcohol abuse and dependence
• Studying alcohol and HIV: a dangerous combination
• NIAAA advances fetal alcohol exposure research
• Urgent vs Important global health issues
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Q and A with Dr Alain Beaudet of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research on the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases
• Profile: Fogarty Scholar Dr Andrew Gardner casts light on alcohol injuries in Ghana
• Japanese fellows contribute to NIH research for more than 20 years
• MenAfriVac vaccine slashes meningitis cases in Africa
• Cuban delegation makes historic visit to NIH
• People in the news - May 2016
• Global health briefs - May 2016
• Investigational malaria vaccine protects healthy U.S. adults for more than one year
  NIAID/NIH news, May 9, 2016

April 2016

• NIH creates Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations
  NIH / NHGRI news, April 29, 2016
• A Big 'Woo-Hoo' for Europe on World Malaria Day: No New Cases in 2015 featuring Fogarty Senior Scientist Emeritus Dr Joel Breman
  NPR Goats and Soda blog, April 25, 2016
• Establishing an African association for health professions education and research
  The National Academies Press, April 19, 2016

March 2016

• Cuban delegation visits NIH
  Fogarty news, March 30, 2016
• NIH-funded scientists develop mouse model for Zika:
  Journal article: Characterization of a Novel Murine Model to Study Zika Virus
  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, March 28, 2016 (online)
• NIAID's Fauci urges continued global vigilance on Zika, other diseases
  Fogarty news, March 23, 2016
• Experimental dengue vaccine [developed by NIH and FDA scientists] protects all recipients in virus challenge study
  NIH news, March 16, 2016
• Ebola, Zika modelers aim to inform policy decisions
• PAHO's Dr Marcos Espinal on global partnerships to fight Zika, Ebola and other diseases
• Commission considers how to improve global disease outbreak response
• Focus on the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS):
  50 years of research and training to improve global health
• Scientists study aflatoxins, foodborne carcinogens
• School program in rural Bangladesh reduces arsenic exposure, study shows
• Researchers help prevent heat-related deaths in India
• Profile: Fogarty engineering fellow Dr Arti Kundu tests water purity in India
• We have much to learn from research in Haiti
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Poll says supporting global health is the right thing to do
• HHS revises global health strategy
• People in the news - March 2016
• Global health briefs - March 2016
• Grantee news: Building capacity in implementation science research training at the University of Nairobi
  Implementation Science, March 8, 2016
• HHS revises global health strategy
  Fogarty news, March 4, 2016
• Global partnerships for global health
  Blog post by HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell, March 4, 2016

February 2016

• Ebola research news from NIAID:
• Experimental Ebola antibody protects monkeys: Antibody isolated from Ebola survivor can advance to clinical trials
  NIAID/NIH news, February 25, 2016
• Ebola survivor study yields insights on complications of disease: Other findings may have implications for potential sexual transmission of Ebola
  NIAID/NIH news, February 23, 2016
• Vaginal ring provides partial protection from HIV in large multinational trial
  NIAID/NIH news, February 22, 2016
• NIH seeks research applications to study Zika in pregnancy, developing fetus
  NICHD/NIAID media advisory, February 5, 2016
• Related resource: Zika virus information and resources from Fogarty
• FAPESP and NIH announce new [parallel funding] research opportunity to support research collaboration between investigators in the U.S. and in the State of São Paulo, Brazil
  FAPESP news, February 2, 2016
• Related NIH funding opportunity: Parallel Funding Initiative for Collaborative Research Between Investigators in the USA and in the State of São Paulo, Brazil (NOT-TW-16-001) released Jan 12, 2016
• Related FAPESP funding opportunity: FAPESP and NIH Collaborative Research Opportunity - Call for Proposals released Feb 2, 2016

January 2016

• What dose of medication is best to prevent the evolution of drug resistance?
  Penn State news, January 28, 2016
• Related journal article: Does High-Dose Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Prevent the Evolution of Resistance?
  PLOS Computational Biology, January 28, 2016
• Zika virus: an emerging health threat
  Blog post by NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins, January 26, 2016
• Anticipating the international spread of Zika virus from Brazil
  Authors supported in part by Fogarty
  The Lancet, January 14, 2016 (online)
• Zika virus in the Americas - yet another arbovirus threat
  co-authored by NIAID Director Dr. Anthony S. Fauci
  New England Journal of Medicine, January 13, 2016
• PEPFAR’s Dr Deborah Birx urges sharper focus to halt HIV globally
• New Fogarty programs build capacity, spur research
• Focus on Global Burden of Disease study: Dr Chris Murray discusses findings and future of GBD at NIH
• Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases partners publish hypertension findings
• The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases: a partnership blossoms
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Testing curbs malaria drug misuse in Kenya
• Profile: Fogarty Scholar Dr John Stanifer studies kidney disease in Tanzania
• Value of Fogarty-supported research training
  Q and A with Dr Peter Cherutich
• South African cohort studies yield key health insights
• NIH unveils Strategic Plan for 2016-2020
• People in the news - January 2016
• Global health briefs - January 2016
• NIH experts offer lessons learned from the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak
  NIAID/NIH news, January 14, 2016
• Special issue on Ebola
  Clinical Trials, January 14, 2016 (online)
• Dengue vaccine [developed at NIH] enters phase 3 trial in Brazil
  NIAID/NIH news, January 14, 2016

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