September / October 2014

• US-Africa summit encourages investments in health
• NIH speeds efforts to test vaccine against Ebola
• Pakistan builds trauma and injury research capacity
• Chronic diseases threaten progress against HIV/AIDS

• Also in This Issue:

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  • E-news exclusives

• Stay Connected with Fogarty
• Funding Opportunities: Upcoming Deadlines
• Upcoming Events

Also in This Issue

• Fogarty funds cutting-edge biodiversity initiatives
• Fogarty launches new program to spur mobile health innovations
• Fogarty awards $17 million in new HIV research training grants
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Jennifer Tang researches women's health in Malawi
• Q and A with Dr Michael M Gottesman, NIH Deputy Director for Intramural Research
• People in the news
• Global health briefs

E-news exclusives

• Ebola news and resources:
  • Ebola virus disease (EVD) information and resources
  • Fact Sheet: U.S. response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa
    White House news, September 16, 2014
  • Ebola then and now
    coauthored by Fogarty Senior Scientific Adviser Emeritus Dr. Joel Breman
    New England Journal of Medicine, Online First, September 10, 2014
  • Using genomics to follow the path of Ebola
    NIH Director's Blog, September 2, 2014
  • NIH to launch human safety study of Ebola vaccine candidate
    NIH news, August 28, 2014
• New strategies in battle against antibiotic resistance
  NIH Director's Blog, September 18, 2014
• Fogarty grantee news: UNC receives $1.5 million grant to strengthen HIV/AIDS research training in South Africa
  UNC news, September 18, 2014
• Profile: Judy Wasserheit: positively global
  Chair, University of Washington's Department of Global Heath, a Fogarty grantee institution
  The Lancet, September 13, 2014
• NCI grantee news: A potential breakthrough on liver cancer [second leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide]
  Tufts University news, September 5, 2014
• NIH issues finalized policy on genomic data sharing
  NIH news, August 27, 2014
• Non-invasive imaging shows earlier sign of cardiovascular disease in vessels of HIV patients
  NIDDK/NIH news, August 25, 2014
• Wellcome Trust sets out long-term vision for research excellence in sub-Saharan Africa
  Wellcome Trust news, August 21, 2014
• Fogarty ICBG grantee news: Marine protected areas might not be enough to help overfished reefs recover; Young corals, fish turned off by smell of damaged habitats
  Georgia Tech news, August 21, 2014
  • Related publication: Chemically mediated behavior of recruiting corals and fishes: A tipping point that may limit reef recovery
    Science, August 22, 2014
• NIH awards two new grants to explore the understanding of genomics research in Africa
  NHGRI/NIH news, August 4, 2014
• African medical education is being transformed by US program, journal articles report
  Fogarty news, July 30, 2014
  • Related Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) news:
    Africa, with U.S. help, graduates more doctors
    New York Times, August 11, 2014

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Funding Opportunities: Upcoming Deadlines

• Fulbright-Fogarty Fellows and Scholars in Public Health
  Application deadline for Fellowships: October 14, 2014

• Hubs of Interdisciplinary Research and Training in Global Environmental and Occupational Health (GEOHealth)
  Application deadline for U01 and U2R: November 19, 2014

• Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID), a joint NIH-NSF initiative
  Application deadline: November 19, 2014

• Global Brain Disorders Research
  R01 and R21 AIDS and non-AIDS application deadline: January 5, 2015

• Mobile Health: Technology and Outcomes in Low and Middle Income Countries (mHealth)
  Application deadline: February 19, 2015

• International Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA)
  Application deadline: March 4, 2015

• International Research Ethics Education and Curriculum Development Award (Bioethics)
  Application deadline: May 22, 2015

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Upcoming Events

• October 8 - 12, 2014
  IDWeek
  Philadelphia, PA

• October 9, 2014
  John F. Enders Lecture at IDWeek
  "Rotavirus Vaccines: New Insights from the Global Rollout"
  by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass
  Philadelphia, PA

• October 19 - 22, 2014
  World Health Summit
  Berlin, Germany
  Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass will present at the conference.

• October 29 - 31, 2014
  Wireless Health 2014 presented by the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance
  NIH Campus
  Bethesda, MD

• November 2 - 6, 2014
  American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting
  New Orleans, LA

• November 13 - 15, 2014
  GETHealth (Global Education and Technology Health) Summit
  Dublin, Ireland

• November 14 - 16, 2014
  Africa and Middle East Congress on Addiction
  Rabat, Morocco

• November 15 - 19, 2014
  American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting
  New Orleans, LA

• December 1 - 3, 2014
  International Symposium on Minority Health and Health Disparities
  National Harbor, MD

• December 2 - 4, 2014
  Association of Research Administrators in Africa (ARAA) annual meeting
  Kampala, Uganda

• December 5 - 7, 2014
  Advancing Ethical Research Conference
  by Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R)
  Baltimore, MD

• December 6 - 7, 2014
  NIH mHealth Training Institute, a satellite meeting for the mHealth Summit
  National Harbor, MD

• December 7 - 11, 2014
  mHealth Summit and the Global mHealth Forum at the mHealth Summit
  National Harbor, MD

• December 8 - 9, 2014
  Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation
  Bethesda, MD

• February 23 - 26, 2015
  Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI)
  Seattle, WA

• March 1 - 7, 2015
  International Conference on Health Issues in Arab Communities
  Muscat, Oman

• March 26 - 28, 2015
  Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Annual Meeting
  Boston, MA
  Submit abstracts by October 15, 2014

• March 28 - 29, 2015
  Global Health and Innovation Conference by Unite for Sight
  New Haven, CT

• Fogarty Calendar of Events

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