September 6, 2024, Advisory Board Meeting Open Session Agenda

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

FIC Advisory Board Meeting (Open Session)
September 6, 2024
Hybrid: Virtual/Stone House, Building 16, NIH Campus

Note: This meeting is in-person for speakers and board members only. All others are welcome to join online.

Virtual Meeting Access

Event password provided in registration confirmation email.

Agenda: Open Session

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Director’s Update and Discussion of Current and Planned FIC Activities

Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIC Director

10:00-10:30 a.m.

Coffee Break

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

FIC Program Concepts and Reissues, Division of International Training and Research (DITR)

Global Brain and Nervous System Disorders Research Across the Lifespan, R01, R21

Dr. UnJa Hayes, Program Director, DITR

Fogarty HIV Research Training Program, G11, D43

Dr. Geetha Bansal, Program Director, DITR

Chronic, Non-Communicable Diseases and Disorders Across the Lifespan: Fogarty International Research Training Award (NCD-LIFESPAN), D43

Dr. Marya Levintova, Program Director, DITR

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:00-2:30 p.m.

Global Infectious Disease Research Training Programs to Building Research Capacity in Liberia and Sierra Leone

1:00-1:10 p.m.

Overview

Dr. Barbara Sina, Deputy and Program Director, DITR

1:10-1:40 p.m.

Initial Landscape & Progress in Research Training & Building Research Capacity

1:10-1:20 p.m.

John Schieffelin and Troy Moon
Trainee: Robert Samuels, PhD, Biomedical Sciences student, Tulane University
Partnership for Research in Emerging Viral Infections-Sierra Leone (PREVSL)

1:20-1:30 p.m.

Jeffrey Martin and Krysia Lindan
Trainees: Moses Badio and Soka Moses, PREVAIL; and Cozie Gwaikolo, University of Liberia
Training in Clinical and Epidemiological Research for Liberia (TRACER) – Lessons from the First Funding Cycle

1:30-1:40 p.m.

Andrew Henderson and Patricia Hibberd, Boston University
Trainees: Sam Gebeh, Epidemiology PhD Program Boston University School of Public Health and Keith Gray, Epidemiology PhD Program Boston University School of Public Health
BULEEVR - Boston University & University of Liberia Emerging & Epidemic Virus Research Program ((FIC GIDR Training Program 2019-2024) Progress to Date

1:40-2:00 p.m.

Panel: Recommendations for Building Research Capacity in Low Research Resource Countries
- Bernice Dahn, University of Liberia
- Tulane Program Representative
- UCSF Program Representative
- BU Program Representative