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March / April 2016
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![Heat map of Americas shows how Zika virus could spread from South America to the Caribbean, Mexico and the US](https://www.fic.nih.gov/News/GlobalHealthMatters/january-february-2016/PublishingImages/enews-zika-heatmap-americas.jpg) |
Fogarty recently convened a meeting of disease modelers and U.S. government officials to consider how to provide actionable information early on in outbreaks.
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Dr. Marcos Espinal of WHO's Pan American Health Organization discusses PAHO's role in outbreaks such as Zika, and how critical partnerships are to global health.
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![Female researcher in lab coat and surgical mask looks into microscope, female close at hand also in mask observes](https://www.fic.nih.gov/News/GlobalHealthMatters/march-april-2016/PublishingImages/enews-female-researchers-in-lab-wearing-masks-using-microscope.jpg) |
An urgent investment is needed to improve the global response to pandemics, according to the Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future.
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Fogarty fellow and engineer Dr. Arti Kundu studies the role of unclean hands in water contamination in India.
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![Dr. Arti Kundu collects samples from hand surfaces using a bag of sterile water from a female study participant in a busy street](https://www.fic.nih.gov/News/GlobalHealthMatters/march-april-2016/PublishingImages/enews-arti-kundu-teaches-handwashing-india.jpg) |
![Haitian researcher Dr. Vanessa Rouzier speaks, slide on challenges in pediatric TB projected in background](https://www.fic.nih.gov/News/GlobalHealthMatters/march-april-2016/PublishingImages/enews-vanessa-rouzier-trainee-haiti.jpg) |
Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass shares his thoughts on how cutting edge research in Haiti on tuberculosis, HIV, chikungunya and other diseases benefits us all.
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NIEHS, which marks its 50th anniversary this year, supports scientific discovery, training and dissemination of knowledge throughout the world on environmental health challenges.
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![Many men wading in river bank rinsing large clumps of plastic bags, smoking factories in background on opposite bank](https://www.fic.nih.gov/News/GlobalHealthMatters/march-april-2016/PublishingImages/enews-workers-polluted-river-factories.jpg) |
NIEHS has funded research to help scientists better understand how aflatoxins - by-products of mold that can grow in corn, nuts, cereals and other crops - may cause poisoning and liver cancer.
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An NIEHS-supported study found that an arsenic education program based in elementary schools was successful in convincing families to switch to safe water sources.
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![A group of young girls in Bangladesh reads a book together, illustrated book cover shows people pumping and carrying water](https://www.fic.nih.gov/News/GlobalHealthMatters/march-april-2016/PublishingImages/enews-girls-bangladesh-read-book-safe-water.jpg) |
Local leaders in Ahmedabad, India, developed an action plan to protect people from extreme heat, guided by research funded in part by NIEHS.
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![In India, a man drinks from a cup at a public outdoor drinking water station in the shade on a street corner](https://www.fic.nih.gov/News/GlobalHealthMatters/march-april-2016/PublishingImages/enews-water-drinking-station-india.jpg) |
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Also in This Issue
E-news exclusives
- Building capacity in implementation science research training at the University of Nairobi
Implementation Science, March 8, 2016
- Global mortality impact of the 1957-1959 influenza pandemic
The Journal of Infectious Diseases, March 1, 2016
- Grantee news: Tuberculosis risk among medical trainees, Pune, India
Emerging Infectious Diseases, March 2016
- Teaching the principles of clinical research:
NIH Clinical Center course reaches thousands around the world
NIH Intramural Research Program Catalyst, March-April 2016
- Experimental Ebola antibody protects monkeys: antibody isolated from Ebola survivor can advance to clinical trials
NIAID/NIH news, February 25, 2016
- Grantee news: During pregnancy, offering HIV testing at home doubles the proportion of male partners who test
NAM Aidsmap news, February 24, 2016
- Vaginal ring provides partial protection from HIV in large multinational trial
NIAID/NIH news, February 22, 2016
- Publication: Doing global science: a guide to responsible conduct in the global research enterprise
InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), Princeton University Press, February 2016
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