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.

Regional News

• Could a task-sharing tool for hypertension control in Guatemala benefit the US?
  Global Health Matters, March/April 2025
• Fatal Oropouche Virus Infections in Nonendemic Region, Brazil, 2024
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, September 13, 2024
• Empowering women and children from Nepal to the Amazon
  Global Health Matters, July/August 2024
• When overweight and undernourished live under one roof
  Global Health Matters, July/August 2024
• Study of Protective Gene Variant Provides Insight into Delaying Onset of Alzheimer’s Dementia
  NIH Director’s blog, July 18, 2024
• Wuchereria bancrofti Lymphatic Filariasis, Barrancabermeja, Colombia, 2023
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, July 2024
• Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Mimicking Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Hospitalized Children, Sonora, Mexico
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, July 2024

Fogarty Grant Recipient & Trainee Publications

• Virome analyses of Amblyomma cajennense and Rhipicephalus microplus ticks collected in Colombia, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipients Patricia Aguilar and Juan Rodas, and Fogarty trainee Francisco Díaz
  Acta Tropica, May 2024
  
• Detection of mobile colistin resistance genes mcr-9.1 and mcr-10.1 in Enterobacter asburiae from Ecuadorian children, co-authored by Fogarty Global Health Fellow Sara G. Cifuentes
  Microbiology Resource Announcements, August 20, 2024

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

US 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

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
• 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

Updated April 30, 2025