Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences
FIC Advisory Board Meeting (Open Session)
February 11, 2020
Stone House, Building 16, NIH Campus
Open Session
9:00 A.M. - 10:15 A.M.
Director's Update and Discussion of Current and Planned FIC Activities
Dr. Roger Glass
10:15 A.M. – 10:30 A.M.
Coffee Break
10:30 A.M. - 11:15 A.M.
Global Health at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Dr. Debara Tucci, Director, NIDCD
11:15 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
Global Health at the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH)
Dr. Janine Clayton, Director, ORWH
12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.
Lunch
1:00 P.M. - 2:45 P.M.
Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa): What’s Next?
1:00 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.
- Dr. Barbara Sina, Deputy Director, Division of International Training and Research (DITR), FIC
- Dr. Laura Povlich, Program Officer, DITR, FIC
- Dr. Daudi Jjingo, Programme Director/PI for the Ugandan NIH H3Africa bioinformatics training programme (BRecA), and a Co-PI of the Ugandan node of H3BioNet
1:30 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.
Discussants
- Dr. Nicola Mulder, Professor and head of the Computational Biology
(CBIO) division, University of Cape Town, Principal investigator of H3ABioNet - Dr. Charles Rotimi, Director, Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, NHGRI
- Dr. Carol Dahl, Executive Director, The Lemelson Foundation
2:00 P.M. - 2:45 P.M.
Open Discussion
2:45 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.
Closing Comments
Dr. Roger Glass
3:00 P.M.
Adjourn
Updated February 5, 2020