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Advancing Science for Global Health
Advancing Science for Global Health

Fogarty International Center

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Tackling unhealthy environments:
It takes a network

Global Environmental and Occupational Health hubs, supported by Fogarty and its partners, are helping to develop a critical mass of LMIC scientists who understand how the environment triggers disease, identify effective interventions and spur policy changes to improve health.

Focus on GEOHealth hubs

Global Health Matters

Part of the Global Health Matters newsletter

Current issue: May / June 2019 Global Health Matters newsletter

Making a Difference

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Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass: Academia can benefit from engaging in global health.

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Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Eric Coker sheds new light on Uganda's indoor air pollution.

More global health research news

Fogarty Trainees

Fogarty’s programs have made significant contributions by filling the pipeline of global health leaders.

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“I was inspired ... to return to Cambodia and nurture the next generation of researchers.”

Dr. Vonthanak Saphonn
National Institute of Public Health, Cambodia
Former Fogarty HIV/AIDS trainee

More featured Fogarty trainees

Global Health Research at NIH

Many of NIH's 27 Institutes and Centers are engaged in global health activities.

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Three decades of frontier science advances celebrated by the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) together with its partners, including the NIH.

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$17M awarded by Fogarty and NIH partners to train HIV researchers, reduce stigma in developing countries.

Global Health Research Topics

Fogarty and its NIH partners invest in a variety of research topics vital to global health.

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Household air pollution news, funding, information and resources for global health researchers

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HIV/AIDS news, funding, information and resources for global health researchers

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