As the year comes to an end, Fogarty and NIH reflect on the accomplishments of the global health research community. Readers and editors of our Global Health Matters newsletter identified these stories as the top news of 2019.
Current issue: Nov / Dec 2019 Global Health Matters newsletter
Humanitarian health should be recognized as a key research priority, according to a recently published article resulting from a Fogarty-supported project.
Fogarty is helping to build scientific capacity to combat Ebola and other viral hemorrhagic fevers in West Africa.
To help train the next generation of global health leaders, Fogarty provides Fellows and Scholars with collaborative, mentored global health research training opportunities in low- and middle-income countries.
“It’s only by collaborating with partners who understand the local setting that we’ve been able to do anything that really matters - to generate good research that changes people’s lives.”
Dr. Lisa BebellFormer Fogarty Fellow
Many of NIH's 27 Institutes and Centers are engaged in global health activities.
NIH and the Gates Foundation are collaborating to develop affordable gene-based cures for sickle cell disease and HIV.
Fogarty and its NIH partners invest in a variety of research topics vital to global health.
Advancing women’s leadership in global health research: news, resources and funding