January / February 2013 Global Health Matters Newsletter

Global Health Matters, Fogarty International Center's newsletter, distributed by email every two months, includes the latest information on global health research.

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Inside this Issue

• Genomics is transforming infectious disease studies
• Global disease study reveals successes, challenges
• Confronting the shifting disease burden: opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Focus on water and its impact on global health:
• Water poses complex issues for global health scientists
• An international research collaboration develops clay water filters to reduce diarrheal disease
• Searching for causes of Buruli ulcers in Ghana
• Uruguay herbicide test spurs regional interest
• Identifying leptospirosis and saving patients
• NIH's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) celebrates 50 years of improving children's health
• Network discovers ways to save mothers, babies
• Research discoveries protect babies from HIV
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Amy E Sims researches pediatric cardiology in Malawi
• Mobile health technology spurs rapid advancements
• Mobile health researchers seek to improve emergency obstetric care in Bangladesh
• New partnership models emerge for research training
• NIH and its health disparities institute call for more partnerships, policies and community action
• US steps up efforts to protect world's children
• Q and A with Dr Francis G Omaswa, MBChB, MMed, FRCS, MEPI Coordinating Center PI
• Mysterious Chinese herb holds promise for malaria, cancer
• Global health briefs
• People in the news

Global Health Matters is produced by the Office of Communications at the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center. For more information about Global Health Matters, please contact the editor, Cathy Kristiansen, at catherine.kristiansen@nih.gov or 301-496-2075. All text produced in this newsletter is in the public domain and may be reprinted. Please credit Fogarty International Center. Images must be cleared for use with the individual source, as indicated.

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