Doctor puts stethoscope on baby's back while mother holds the baby, all seated on ground, tarps in background

Global health research benefits people everywhere

To protect the health and safety of Americans, Fogarty programs build scientific expertise in developing countries, ensuring there is local capacity to detect and address pandemics at their point of origin; accelerate scientific discovery; and provide national and international health leadership.

Photo by John Moore/Getty Images, Health worker in personal protective equipment carries a child suspected of having Ebola in treatment center

Fogarty protects Americans by building pandemic response capacity in Ebola-hit West Africa

In Brazil, a mother kisses baby, who has a smaller than usual head

Fogarty trainee heads Peru site of an NIH trial to evaluate a Zika vaccine candidate

Views of Fogarty @ 50

As we mark our 50th year, our community shares how our programs have aided careers and advanced research.

"Fogarty understands that global change starts within individual countries, and during its 50 years of existence, its unique, sustained focus on supporting people in their own countries to solve their own problems has been a critical piece of the architecture and development of global health."
Dr. Peter Singer, University of Toronto, CEO of Grand Challenges Canada, Former Fogarty bioethics grantee