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September / October 2012

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Fogarty launches GEOHealth environmental and occupational research and training hubs

Fogarty announces planning grant awards to help low-resource countries study how contaminated air, water, soil and food causes illnesses around the world each year.
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Focus on transforming Africa's medical education with MEPI

The Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) is strengthening and expanding curricula, encouraging faculty retention and boosting connectivity and e-learning in Africa's medical education programs.
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$14M awarded for NCD research training

Fogarty has awarded $14 million in grants to 15 research institutions through the Chronic, Non-Communicable Diseases and Disorders Across the Lifespan program to address the rapid rise of chronic diseases in developing countries.
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NIH and Wellcome Trust fund $38M in African genomics studies through H3Africa

African scientists will conduct genomic research on kidney disease, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, tuberculosis and sleeping sickness through inaugural grants of H3Africa.
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Resistance to malaria drugs is a growing concern

NIH researchers examine how drug-resistant malaria is emerging due to artemisinin monotherapy and prevalence of poor-quality and fake malaria drugs, according to a recently-published report.
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