South Asia region news, resources and funding for global health researchers

Countries in Region

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand

Grant Awards in Region

• Fogarty grant awards impacting the south Asian region

South Asia Region News

• Determinants of vaccine coverage and timeliness in a northern Pakistani village, co-authored by Fogarty's Chelsea Hansen and Zeba Rasmussen
  PLOS One, February 17, 2022
  
• US and India partner on vaccine research
  ShareAmerica news, January 6, 2021
  
• Substantial and sustained reduction in under-5 mortality, diarrhea, and pneumonia in Oshikhandass, Pakistan: evidence from two longitudinal cohort studies 15 years apart, co-authored by Fogarty scientists
  BMC Public Health , May 24, 2020
  
  

Related Fogarty News and Information

• Adjuvant developed with NIH funding enhances efficacy of India’s COVID-19 vaccine
  NIAID/NIH news, June 29, 2021
• Profile: Type 2 diabetes syndemic in India characterized by Fogarty Scholar Dr Emily Mendenhall
  Sep / Oct 2020 Global Health Matters
• Grantee news: Impact of the Fogarty training program on trainee and institutional research capacity building at a government medical college in India
  Annals of Global Health, July 28, 2020
• Scientists use mobile health app to mitigate pain in Nepal
  Mar / Apr 2020 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Eric J Nelson’s cholera research in Bangladesh spawns global projects
  Mar / Apr 2019 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Shuchi Anand studies chronic kidney disease in India
  Jan / Feb 2019 Global Health Matters
• Frugal innovation fights India’s high suicide burden
  Nov / Dec 2018 Global Health Matters
• Study in India sets stage for US tests of screening tool for cognitive impairment
  Sep / Oct 2018 Global Health Matters
• Fogarty trainees in Dhaka collaborate on diarrheal diseases
  Sep / Oct 2018 Global Health Matters
• International study [with sites in Australia and New Zealand] suggests combination therapy may prevent stroke in certain people
  NINDS/NIH news, May 17, 2018
• Antiviral drug not beneficial for reducing mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B when added to existing preventatives: NIH-funded study [in Thailand] observes no significant reduction of infection rates at age 6 months
  NICHD/NIH news, March 7, 2018
• Customizing stroke prevention research in Pakistani population
  Nov / Dec 2017 Global Health Matters
• Energizing psychiatric research in Egypt, India
  Nov / Dec 2017 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Mohammad Aminul Islam battles antimicrobial resistance in Bangladesh
  Nov / Dec 2017 Global Health Matters
• Probiotic prevents infant infections in rural India
  NIH Research Matters, August 29, 2017
• Q and A with former Fogarty trainee Dr Soumya Swaminathan
  Jan / Feb 2017 Global Health Matters
• US-India joint effort targets genes and traits to improve glaucoma screening, prevention and treatment
  National Eye Institute news, September 29, 2016
• Profile: Fulbright-Fogarty Fellow Dr Brie Falkard studies cholera in children in Bangladesh
  Sep / Oct 2016 Global Health Matters
• Q and A with Fabio Mesquita: Building HIV research capacity [in Brazil, Indonesia]
  Sep / Oct 2016 Global Health Matters
• Fogarty trains Pakistani scientists in biorisk management
  Jul / Aug 2016 Global Health Matters
• School program in rural Bangladesh reduces arsenic exposure, study shows
  Mar / Apr 2016 Global Health Matters
• Researchers help prevent heat-related deaths in India
  Mar / Apr 2016 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty engineering fellow Dr Arti Kundu tests water purity in India
  Mar / Apr 2016 Global Health Matters
• Research in Bangladesh shows sari cloth can filter cholera from water
  Jan/Feb 2015 Global Health Matters
• Profile: Fogarty nursing fellow Faith Beulah oversees HIV trials in India
  Jan/Feb 2015 Global Health Matters
• Trauma and injury in Pakistan
  Sep / Oct 2014 Global Health Matters
• Pakistan builds trauma and injury research capacity
• Researchers aim to cut child injury in Pakistani homes
• Hearing and deafness research in Pakistan
  May / Jun 2014 Global Health Matters
• Deafness studies will speed path to new treatments
• Research in Pakistan yields findings on hereditary hearing loss
• Fogarty Fellow Dr Ramnath Subbaraman examines mental health in Indian slums
  Jul / Aug 2013 Global Health Matters
• New Indian rotavirus vaccine provides hope:
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
  May / Jun 2013 Global Health Matters
• Learning from disasters to save lives every day in Pakistan, co-authored by Fogarty's Dr. Zeba A. Rasmussen
  The Lancet, May 17, 2013
• Vision research [in India] leads to new theories on brain plasticity
  Nov / Dec 2012 Global Health Matters
• Focus on Pakistan
  May / Jun 2010 Global Health Matters
• US-Pakistan research collaborations improve health
• International collaboration improves screening and care for mentally retarded
• Researchers find suicide and self-harm on the rise
• Traditional surma eye makeup poses lead risk

Fogarty Contact

Ranjan Gupta, PhD
Regional Program Director, South Asia / Eurasia
Division of International Relations
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health
Building 31 Room B2C11
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220
Telephone: 301-402-6212
Fax: 301-480-3414
Email (preferred): ranjan.gupta@nih.gov

NIH News & Resources

• NIH Resources in Asian and Pacific Island Languages
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
  Global Research in South and Central Asia
• National Cancer Institute (NCI):
• Working with India to advance cancer research
  NCI Center for Global Health blog, September 15, 2017
• A milestone in cancer research and treatment in India
  NCI Center for Global Health blog, February 19, 2016
• NIH Director Francis Collins tours India research sites
  Jan / Feb 2012 Global Health Matters
• Francis Collins on Partnering with India
  ScienceInsider, December 2011

US Government Resources

• U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Asia
• Pakistan-U.S. Science and Technology Cooperation Program - Implemented by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in the U.S. and by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) in Pakistan, and co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Online Resources

• DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance, which offers a variety of Research Fellowships
• e-Asia Joint Research Program
• IndianBioscience.org
• Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
• Indo-US Science Technology Forum (IUSSTF)
• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) report:
  The Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy - South Asia Regional Edition
• International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)
• National Informatics Center, India
• World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for South-East Asia