Western Hemisphere region news, resources and funding for global health researchers

Fogarty and NIH have a long history of supporting medical science advances in Latin America, 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. Additionally, Fogarty collaborated with National Cancer Institute in 2009 to launch a groundbreaking three-year pilot program focused on the prevention and treatment of cancer in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Uruguay.

Countries in Region

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

Grant Awards in Region

• Fogarty grant awards impacting the Western Hemisphere

Top Region News

• Cholera Outbreak — Haiti, September 2022–January 2023
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), CDC, January 13, 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
• 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
• Norovirus Infection in Young Nicaraguan Children Induces Durable and Genotype-Specific Antibody Immunity
  Viruses, September 16, 2022
• Structural factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection risk in an urban slum setting in Salvador, Brazil: A cross-sectional survey, Fogarty grantees Mitermayer Reis and Albert I. Ko co-authors
  PLOS Medicine, September 8, 2022
• Domestic Dogs as Sentinels for West Nile Virus but not Aedes-borne Flaviviruses, Mexico
  EID Journal, May 2022
  
• Managing Post-Stroke Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Tertiary Care Level Hospital in Peru
  Fogarty Scholar Jessica Hanae Zafra-Tanaka lead author
  Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, April 2022
• Mortality Associated With Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus in the US, 1999-2018, co-authored by Fogarty's Dr. Chelsea Hansen and Dr. Cécile Viboud
  JAMA Network Open, February 28, 2022
• Dropout from treatment for mental disorders in six countries of the Americas: A regional report from the World Mental Health Surveys, Fogarty grantee Corina Benjet lead author
  Journal of Affective Disorders, February 11, 2022
• Urban landscape and street-design factors associated with road-traffic mortality in Latin America between 2010 and 2016 (SALURBAL): an ecological study, Fogarty grantee D Alex Quistberg lead author
  Lancet Planet Health, February 9, 2022
• Efficacy and Safety of NVX-CoV2373 in Adults in the United States and Mexico
  New England Journal of Medicine, December 15, 2021
  
• Tracing the Source of Influenza A Virus Zoonoses in Interconnected Circuits of Swine Exhibitions, featuring Fogarty's Amanda  Perofsky as co-lead author
  The Journal of Infectious Diseases, August 1, 2021
  
• Toward the use of neural networks for influenza prediction at multiple spatial resolutions, co-authored by Fogarty's Dr. Cecile Viboud
  Science Advances, June 16, 2021
  
• Grantee spotlight: Dr Simone Badal
  Novel prostate cancer cell lines to address prostate cancer disparity in Black men
  National Cancer Institute Center for Global Health Spotlight blog post, May 27, 2021
  
• The evolutionary dynamics of influenza A viruses circulating in mallards in duck hunting preserves in Maryland, USA [Open access], co-authored by Fogarty scientists Drs Nídia S Trovão and Martha Nelson
  Microorganisms, December 25, 2020
  
• The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in Europe and North America, co-authored by Fogarty's Dr Martha Nelson
  Science, September 10, 2020
  
• Experimental chikungunya vaccine is safe and well-tolerated in early trial
  NIAID Now blog post, April 17, 2020
• Estimation of excess deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, March to May 2020, co-authored by Fogarty's Dr Cecile Viboud
  JAMA Internal Medicine, July 1, 2020
  
• Evolution of highly pathogenic H7N3 avian influenza viruses in Mexico [Full access], co-authored by Fogarty scientists
  Zoonoses and Public Health, January 7, 2020
  
• American and Canadian funding agencies meet to discuss health research
  Canadian Institutes of Health Research news, November 27, 2019
  
• NIH and partners to launch HIV vaccine efficacy trial in the Americas and Europe
  Study will enroll men who have sex with men and transgender people; complementary study in women is ongoing
  NIAID/NIH news, July 15, 2019
• Tracing spread of Zika virus in the Americas
  Blog post by NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins, May 29, 2018
• Bacteria and fungi play key roles in social insect colonies, the results of a research partnership supported by FAPESP and NIH
  São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) news, April 4, 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
  

Related Fogarty News and Information

• Optimizing access to antivenom in the Amazon
  Sept/Oct 2022, Global Health Matters
• Using home-grown knowledge to advance health in Suriname
  Global Health Matters, Mar / Apr 2022
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Javier Cepeda studies benefits of police education program in Tijuana, Mexico
  Global Health Matters, Jul / Aug 2021
• mHealth app reduces LMIC  pregnancy, delivery risks
  Global Health Matters, Jul / Aug 2021
• Scientists craft US-Latin American research agenda on child obesity
  Global Health Matters, Jul / Aug 2021 
  
• Former Fogarty grantee and Argentine health minister discusses Latin America’s noncommunicable disease crisis
  Q and A with Dr Adolfo Rubinstein
  Global Health Matters, Jan / Feb 2021 
  
• Former Fogarty HIV trainee Dr William Duke helps lead Dominican Republic's COVID response
  Global Health Matters, Jul / Aug 2020 
  
• COVID-19 creates new syndemic on US-Mexico border
  Global Health Matters, Jul / Aug 2020 
  
• Profile: Fogarty fellow Dr Mark Brady’s tuberculosis training in Peru useful in combatting COVID-19
  Global Health Matters, Jul / Aug 2020 
  
• Scientists develop app to diagnose, treat leishmaniasis in Colombia
  Jan / Feb 2020 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Leann Andrews studies how establishing gardens in a Peru slum can improve health
  Global Health Matters, Jul / Aug 2019 
• Advancing research in Peru: Q and A with Dr Patricia Garcia
  Global Health Matters, Mar / Apr 2018 
  
• Focus on multigenerational research training: Generations of mentorship improve health in Haiti
  Global Health Matters, Jan / Feb 2018
  

Fogarty Contact

Kevin Bialy, M.A.A.
International Program Officer 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

NIH News & Resources

• NIH Resources in Spanish / en Español
• National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Global Health United States-Latin America Cancer Research Network (US-LA CRN)
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Research in the Americas and the Caribbean

US Government Resources

• Fact sheet on Cuba policy
  White House blog post, June 16, 2017
• Notice: Strengthening the policy of the United States toward Cuba
  U.S. Department of State via Office of the Federal Register, October 20, 2017
• U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Latin America and the Caribbean

Online 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
• Report:The Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy - Latin America and Caribbean Regional Edition
  Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
• 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
  

Updated January 20, 2023