Fogarty International Center newsletter articles and press releases - 2014

December 2014

• Building the human capacity to deal with Ebola: How can we prevent future disease outbreaks?
  by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
  American Society for Microbiology's Cultures, Autumn 2014
• Top NIH global health research news stories of 2014
  Fogarty news, December 17, 2014
• NIH accelerates clinical trials of Ebola vaccines
• Obama visits NIH to call for more funding for Ebola research
• President Obama Speaks on the Fight Against Ebola [Video] [Archive]
  Archive of the White House videos, December 2, 2014
• "A test of our character as a nation": President Obama on what we need in the fight against Ebola [Archive]
  Archive of the White House Blog, December 2, 2014
• President's visit to NIH highlights research on Ebola
  Blog post by NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins, December 2, 2014
• Building the human capacity to deal with Ebola: How can we prevent future disease outbreaks?
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Lessons learned from 1976 Ebola outbreak
  Q and A with Fogarty Scientist Emeritus Dr Joel Breman
• Focus on sickle cell disease research
• Research needed to treat sickle cell disease in Africa
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Juliana Anyanwu studies sickle cell drug in Uganda
• Funders urged to invest in Africa's research capacity
• Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass delivers Enders lecture at IDWeek
• Study probes link between intestinal infections, child development
• Research effort tackles Latin American child obesity
• People in the news - December 2014
• Global health briefs - December 2014
• Sophisticated HIV diagnostics adapted for remote areas
  NIBIB / NIH news, December 1, 2014

November 2014

• NIAID/GSK experimental Ebola vaccine appears safe, prompts immune response
  NIAID / NIH news, November 28, 2014
• HHS and NIH take steps to enhance transparency of clinical trial results
  NIH news, Nov 19, 2014
• Honoring Our Promise: Clinical Trial Data Sharing
  NIH Director's blog, November 19, 2014
• NIH-sponsored study identifies superior drug regimen for preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission
  NIAID / NIH news, November 17, 2014
• NCI Office of HIV and AIDS Malignancy and Fogarty announce awardees to sub-Saharan Africa collaborative HIV and cancer consortia
  NCI / NIH news, November 2014

October 2014

• The Malnutrition and Enteric Disease Study (MAL-ED): Understanding the Consequences for Child Health and Development
  Clinical Infectious Diseases, Supplement, November 1, 2014 issue
• A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Implementation Science: The NIH-PEPFAR PMTCT Implementation Science Alliance
  Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS), November 1, 2014 issue
• Transmission dynamics and control of Ebola virus disease outbreak in Nigeria, July to September 2014, co-authored by Fogarty staff scientist
  Eurosurveillance, October 9, 2014
• HHS Releases 13th Report on Carcinogens
  NIEHS / NIH news, October 2, 2014
• Related report: 13th Report on Carcinogens
  HHS National Toxicology Program, released October 2, 2014

September 2014

• Fogarty launches new program to spur mobile health innovations
  Fogarty news, September 23, 2014
• US-Africa summit encourages investments in health
• NIH speeds efforts to test vaccine against Ebola
• Focus on HIV comorbidities
• Chronic diseases threaten progress against HIV/AIDS:
  Scientists propose urgent NCD research agenda
• Related publication: HIV and Noncommunicable Disease Comorbidities in the Era of Antiretroviral Therapy: A Vital Agenda for Research in Low- and Middle-Income Country Settings
  Supplement to Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS), September 1, 2014
• Trauma and injury in Pakistan
• Pakistan builds trauma and injury research capacity
• Researchers aim to cut child injury in Pakistani homes
• Research is essential to improving health in Africa
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Jennifer Tang researches women's health in Malawi
• Q and A with Dr Michael M Gottesman, NIH Deputy Director for Intramural Research
• NIH prepares for new MEPI research support in Africa
• People in the news - September 2014
• Global health briefs - September 2014
• Ebola Then and Now, co-authored by Fogarty Senior Scientific Adviser Emeritus Dr. Joel Breman
  New England Journal of Medicine, Online First, September 10, 2014
• Related news: 1976 vs. Today: Ebola's Terrifying Evolution
  The Daily Beast, September 10, 2014
• Related news: The Original Ebola Hunter: Dr Joel Breman, Fogarty senior scientific adviser emeritus
  The Daily Beast, September 14, 2014
• Fogarty funds cutting-edge biodiversity initiatives
  Fogarty news, September 8, 2014
• Grantee news: Bacteria that assist fungus-farming ants may be a source of new drugs
  Harvard Medical School news, August 4, 2014
• Fogarty awards $17 million in new HIV research training grants
  Fogarty news, September 3, 2014
• Grantee news: UNC receives $1.5 million grant to strengthen HIV/AIDS research training in South Africa
  UNC news, September 18, 2014

August 2014

• Grantee news: Marine protected areas might not be enough to help overfished reefs recover; Young corals, fish turned off by smell of damaged habitats
  Georgia Tech news, August 21, 2014
• Related publication: Chemically mediated behavior of recruiting corals and fishes: A tipping point that may limit reef recovery
  Science, August 22, 2014
• Experimental chikungunya vaccine induces robust antibody response
  NIAID/NIH news, August 14, 2014
• Scientists detail urgent research agenda to better understand, address chronic disease toll: HIV patients in developing countries facing new health risks must be a high priority
  Fogarty / NIH news, August 14, 2014
• Related journal articles: HIV and Noncommunicable Disease Comorbidities in the Era of Antiretroviral Therapy: A Vital Agenda for Research in Low- and Middle-Income Country Settings
  Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, Supplement 1, September 1, 2014
• African leaders visit NIH campus
  Fogarty news, updated August 12, 2014
• MEPI news: Africa, With U.S. Help, Graduates More Doctors
  New York Times, August 11, 2014
• Grantee news: Thai health care: New program provides research training for nurses and
  Q&A: Research training for nurses benefits U.S and Thailand
  University of Michigan news, August 6, 2014
• Concept: NIH-supported Component of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI): Research Career Development of African Junior Faculty
  Fogarty funding news, August 1, 2014

July 2014

• Partnering with African scientists to improve global health: Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
  Fogarty news, July 31, 2014
• African medical education is being transformed by US program, journal articles report
  Fogarty news, July 30, 2014
• Related publication: The Medical Education Partnership Initiative: Investing in Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
  Academic Medicine, supplement, August 2014

• Celebrating 10 years of Fogarty fellows and scholars:

• Fogarty marks decade supporting research fellowships
• Celebrating Fogarty fellows:
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Rwandan Health Minister Dr Agnes Binagwaho discusses research collaborations with NIH
• Global leaders raise alarm on antibiotic resistance
• Focus on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) global health programs:
• CDC views global health as key priority
• Hands-on CDC training boosts researcher skills
• CDC programs improve global health security
• Q and A with CDC Director Dr Tom Frieden
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Bhakti Hansoti creates plan to save ailing South African children
• Hope motivates positive behavior in HIV patients
• Mosquitoes are spreading chikungunya disease in the Americas
• People in the news - July 2014
• Global health briefs - July 2014
• Profile: NIH's Fogarty International Center - The Lancet, July 12, 2014

June 2014

• Fogarty awards five new chronic disease training grants - Fogarty news, June 20, 2014
• Grantee news: Egypt: 2014 Field Report - Initiatives, prescriptions and imperatives to overcome Egypt's most pressing emergency medicine problems
  Emergency Physicians International (EPi), June 5, 2014
• Universities meet to consider global health challenges
• Collins hails US-Brazil science collaborations
• Focus on National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) at NIH:
• Global research is vital for deafness, speech disorders
• Studies in developing countries identify causes of stuttering
• Deafness studies will speed path to new treatments
• Research in Pakistan yields findings on hereditary hearing loss
• Information and communications technology (ICT) research:
• Fogarty encourages use of technology in research
• Incorporating ICT into science and research in Peru
  Q and A with Fogarty and NIH grantee Dr Paticia Garcia
• Implementing technology to advance science
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Profile: Fogarty Scholar Dr Victoria Ojeda studies health on US-Mexico border
• Institute of Medicine studies global child health
• People in the news - June 2014
• Global health briefs - June 2014
• Fogarty awards four 2014 bioethics grants - Fogarty news, June 4, 2014

May 2014

• Fogarty awards new infectious disease research training grants - Fogarty news, May 22, 2014
• Grantee news: BMC awarded NIH grant to train Ugandans in basic research on TB Boston University Medical Center news, June 16, 2014
• Grantee news: An American doctor may have solved a deadly mystery about malaria - PRI's The World, May 5, 2015

April 2014

• A career in public health: The chance to save lives by the millions
  by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
  Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, April 2014
• Student Demand Spurs Growth in Global Health Programs - Duke Global Health Institute news, April 30, 2014
• Related publication: Perspective: University Engagement in Global Health - New England Journal of Medicine, May 1, 2014
• Grantee news: Building Capacity for Children's Environmental Health Research in China - NIEHS Global Environmental Health, April 2014
• Fogarty sets new goals for global health research and training - Fogarty news, April 29, 2014
• Fogarty launches strategic plan to meet new global health needs
• Related publication: Fogarty Strategic Plan, April 2014
• NIH celebrates a decade of brain disorders research
• Hookah smoking poses health risks, NIH studies show
• Related resource: Hookah research information and resources
• Envisioning the end of AIDS: challenges and prospects
  Q and A with Dr Salim Abdool Karim of CAPRISA
• Focus: NIH tech transfer office speeds global health solutions
• Bioethics in research: strengthening the foundation
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Profile: Fogarty Scholar Dr Paul Drain helps accelerate disease diagnoses in South Africa
• NIH leaders, grantees present at CUGH meeting
• People in the news - April 2014
• Global health briefs - April 2014
• Grantee news: Pollutants from coal-burning stoves strongly associated with miscarriages in Mongolia - Children's Hospital Los Angeles news, April 23, 2014
• NIH funds influenza research and surveillance network - NIH news, April 10, 2014
• Grantee News: Chagas research champion wins hearts and minds - TDR news, April 4, 2014

March 2014

• HIV-Infected Men at Increased Risk for Heart Disease, Large Study Finds - NIAID news, March 31, 2014
• Robust Research Efforts Needed to Address Ongoing, Global Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) news, March 20, 2014
• Newly published study indicates lifesaving potential for new rotavirus vaccine - PATH announcement, March 12, 2014
• Related publication: Team science and the creation of a novel rotavirus vaccine in India: a new framework for vaccine development, The Lancet, March 12, 2014
• South African study 'opens new possibilities for curing HIV' - SouthAfrica.info, March 4, 2014
• Developmental pathway for potent V1V2-directed HIV-neutralizing antibodies - Nature, March 2, 2014
• The Future of Biomedical Research by NIH Director Dr Francis S Collins, The ASCO Post from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, March 1, 2014

February 2014

• NIH Director Dr Francis S Collins testifies to a Senate subcommittee regarding research to treat or prevent Alzheimer's Disease, including a clinical trial in Colombia [Video] - C-SPAN, February 26, 2014
• Youth born with HIV may have higher heart disease risk, NIH network study shows - NIH News, February 24, 2014
• Focus on Brain Disorders: Research Across the Lifespan
• Overview of Brain Disorders: Research Across the Lifespan
• Cassava root causes cognitive damage in Congolese villages
• Education may curb epilepsy linked to pig parasite in Burkina Faso
• Fogarty-supported researchers spur Alzheimer's research in Colombia
• Alzheimer's gene protects cognition in Brazilian slums
• Studies in Vietnam show early intervention is critical for disabled children
• Fogarty launches program to advance mHealth research
• US investment in global health research:
• America is losing biomedical research leadership to Asia
• US as a global health leader: Q and A with Dr J Stephen Morrison of CSIS
• Response to a congressman: how we all benefit from global health research, Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Study shows parasite mutation behind drug-resistant malaria in Cambodia
• WHO urges artemisinin resistance testing
• NIH joins global effort to fund diabetes research
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Rachel T Idowu learns skills for global health career
• Fogarty posts indoor air pollution training resources
• People in the news - February 2014
• Global health briefs - February 2014

January 2014

• National Cancer Institute (NCI) collaborates with Beijing clinician-scientist
  NIH Record, January 31, 2014
• Fogarty bioethics grantees discuss lessons learned
  Fogarty news, January 22, 2014
• Journal article: Multi-year persistence of two pandemic A/H1N1 influenza virus lineages in West Africa
  Journal of Infectious Diseases, January 19, 2014
• Fogarty celebrates decade of brain disorders program
  Fogarty News, January 17, 2014
• NCI's Center for Global Health Boosts Grant-Earning Capacity in Africa
  NIH Record, January 17, 2014
• NIBIB Partners with India on Blood Pressure Initiative
  NIH Record, January 17, 2014
• New rotavirus vaccines seem safer, studies find
  Associated Press via Yahoo! News, January 14, 2014
• Related publication: Rotavirus Vaccines - Balancing Intussusception Risks and Health Benefits
  New England Journal of Medicine, January 14, 2014
• Fogarty awards new HIV/AIDS mentoring grants
  Fogarty news, January 6, 2014
  
  

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