$6.6M awarded to train infectious disease researchers in sub-Saharan Africa, South America

March / April 2020 | Volume 19, Number 2

Fogarty is continuing to build research capacity in low-resource settings where it is needed most, with an initial round of new awards that are expected to invest a total of $6.6 million over five years. The Global Infectious Disease Research Training (GID) grants will provide research training through five projects located in Bolivia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Peru.

Scientists with the Harvard School of Public Health will focus on training in pediatric infectious diseases and nutrition research in Ethiopia. In Kenya, a team led by Washington State University scientists will deliver integrated training for physicians and veterinarians in zoonotic pathogen emergence and transmission.

Through a South-South partnership, an award to Johns Hopkins University will build on past work in Peru, extending research training to neighboring Bolivia to address local priorities such as Chagas disease, cysticercosis, tuberculosis, pneumonia and HIV neurological co-infections. Also in Peru, health ministry personnel will receive advanced master’s and doctoral training through a renewal award to Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, supporting early detection and effective responses to epidemic threats like Zika virus disease, yellow fever, malaria and dengue. To help address malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, sites in Kenya and Ethiopia will provide training in molecular biology, genomics, bioinformatics and ecological modeling through a grant to University of California, Irvine.

NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is joining with Fogarty to fund the awards.

2020 Global Infectious Disease Research Training Awards

• Harvard School of Public Health
  Ethiopia Global Infectious Diseases Training Program
  Principal Investigator: Drs. Wafaie W. Fawzi and Yemane Berhane
  Collaborating country: Ethiopia
• Johns Hopkins University
  Infectious Diseases Training program in Bolivia: South-South Training with Peru
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert H. Gilman
  Collaborating countries: Bolivia, Peru
• Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
  Emerge: Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Research Training
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Andres G. Lescano
  Collaborating country: Peru
• University of California, Irvine
  Population Biology of African Malaria Vectors and Parasites
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Guiyun Yan
  Collaborating countries: Ethiopia, Kenya
• Washington State University
  Zoonotic and Emerging Infectious Diseases Training Program
  Principal Investigators: Drs. Guy Hughes Palmer, Walter Godfrey Jaoko and M. Kariuki Njenga
  Collaborating country: Kenya

More Information

• Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program

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Related Fogarty Programs

• Global Infectious Diseases (GID)

Related World Regions / Countries

• Western Hemisphere
• Sub-Saharan Africa