Americas and the Caribbean region news, resources and funding for global health researchers

Fogarty and NIH have a long history of supporting medical science advances in Latin America and the Caribbean, which faces many of the same chronic disease challenges found in the U.S. as well as the perennial threat of infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and Chagas disease. Over the decades, Fogarty has helped build capacity in the region, funding cutting-edge research at institutions like GHESKIO in Haiti and Cayetano Heredia University in Peru.

Countries in Region

Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela

NIH Funded Research Impacting Americas and the Caribbean

• Through grant funding to U.S. universities, NIH facilitates international collaboration in the Americas and the Caribbean in all areas of the biomedical and behavioral sciences.

Fogarty/NIH News

• Prevalence of and factors associated with childhood anaemia in remote villages of the Peruvian Amazon: a cross-sectional study and geospatial analysis, co-authored by Fogarty grantee Andres Lescano and Fogarty trainees John Nesemann, Saloman Durand, and Cristiam Carey-Angeles
  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, April 11, 2023
• Caring for kids (and their moms) in Suriname
  Global Health Matters, Mar / Apr 2023
  
• Human footprint is associated with shifts in the assemblages of major vector-borne diseases, co-authored by Fogarty grantees Caroline K. Glidden, Andrew J. MacDonald, and Erin A. Mordecai
  Nature Sustainability, March 13, 2023
• Cholera Outbreak — Haiti, September 2022–January 2023
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), CDC, January 13, 2023
• Haitian TB researcher shifts focus to cholera outbreak
  Global Health Matters, Jan/Feb 2023
  
• GHESKIO combats cholera outbreak during humanitarian crises in Haiti
  Global Health Matters, Jan/Feb 2023
• Correspondence: Resurgence of Cholera in Haiti amidst Humanitarian Crises co-authored by former Fogarty fellow Nadalette Alcenat and Fogarty trainees Karine Severe and Vanessa Rouzier
  New England Journal of Medicine, November 30, 2022
• Optimizing access to antivenom in the Amazon
  Global Health Matters, Sept/Oct 2022
  

U.S. Government Resources

• Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Americas Office
  
• NIH Resources in Spanish
  
• U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Latin America and the Caribbean
  

Other Resources

• Cancer in Latin America and Caribbean: The Cancer Atlas, developed by the American Cancer Society, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, and the Union for International Cancer Control
• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation report: The Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy - Latin America and Caribbean Regional Edition
  
• National Public Health Institute of Mexico (INSP)
  
• Organization of American States (OAS)
• Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
• The World Bank Group in Latin America and the Caribbean
• UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS) - Latin America and the Caribbean
  

Fogarty Contact

Kevin Bialy, M.A.A.
Regional Director for the Western Hemisphere
Division of International Relations
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health
Building 31 Room B2C11
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220
Telephone: (301) 496.6273
FAX: (301) 480-3414
Email (preferred): kevin.bialy@nih.gov

Updated May 10, 2023