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September 10, 2013 Advisory Board Meeting Agenda

Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences

Fogarty Advisory Board Meeting
Lawton L. Chiles International House, Conference Room, NIH Campus

OPEN SESSION

9:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.

Director's Update and Discussion of Current and Planned FIC Activities
Dr. Roger I. Glass

10:00 A.M. – 10:30 A.M.

Center for Global Health Studies Activities
Nalini Anand

10:30 A.M. – 10:45 A.M.

Coffee Break

10:45 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.

Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Update
Dr. Myat Htoo Razak, Program Director, Division of International Training and Research, FIC
Dr. Joseph Kolars, Senior Associate Dean for Education and Global Initiatives
Josiah Macy, Jr., Professor of Health Professions Education, University of Michigan
Dr. Miliard Derbew, Pediatric General Surgeon Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, MEPI PI

12:00 P.M. – 1:00 P.M.

Lunch

1:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M.

Emerging Research and Capacity-Building Priorities in Global Tobacco Control

Dr. Rachel Sturke, Director of Evaluation, Division of International Science Policy, Planning and Evaluation, FIC
Dr. Derek Yach, Executive Director, The Vitality Institute
Cynthia Lewis, Deputy Director, Tobacco, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr. Jennifer Ellis, Director of Evaluation, Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, Bloomberg Philanthropies

Discussants:
Dr. Nora Volkow, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH
Dr. Robert Kaplan, Director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), NIH
Dr. Robert Croyle, Director, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH

2:45 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Closing Comments and Adjourn
Dr. Roger I. Glass

Updated August 20, 2013