September / October 2014 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

• US-Africa summit encourages investments in health
• NIH speeds efforts to test vaccine against Ebola
• Fogarty funds cutting-edge biodiversity initiatives
• Fogarty launches new program to spur mobile health innovations
• Focus on HIV comorbidities
• Chronic diseases threaten progress against HIV/AIDS:
  Scientists propose urgent NCD research agenda
• Trauma and injury in Pakistan
• Pakistan builds trauma and injury research capacity
• Researchers aim to cut child injury in Pakistani homes
• Research is essential to improving health in Africa
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• 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
• NIH prepares for new MEPI research support in Africa
• People in the news
• Global health briefs

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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