Fogarty awards new Clayton-Dedonder mentorship grants to support HIV/AIDS research and training

July 19, 2018

As part of its effort to strengthen HIV/AIDS research training in low- and middle-income countries, Fogarty recently awarded more than $700,000 to fund mentoring activities as a part of Fogarty-funded HIV/AIDS training programs in Ethiopia, Haiti, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. These Clayton-Dedonder Global Health Mentorship Fellows Program awards will be used to enhance the overall culture and practice of mentoring at the institutions. Award recipients will also develop and implement a course on mentoring and leadership for identified fellows.

Funding for the program is provided by the NIH portion of funds from the World AIDS Foundation through the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH). The fellowships are named in honor of Drs. Alastair Clayton and Raymond Dedonder, the main scientific staff for the World AIDS Foundation for most of its 15-year history.

The World AIDS Foundation, jointly administered by Fogarty and the Institut Pasteur, was established as a part of the agreements by the Presidents of the United States and France on disbursement of royalties from HIV test kits following discovery of the HIV virus, and development of the technologies to test for HIV.

2018-2019 Clayton-Dedonder Mentorship Awards

• Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
  Principal investigator: Dr. Miliard Derbew
  Related Fogarty grant: MEPI Scholars Program for Developing Research Capacity of Junior Faculty

• GHESKIO, Haiti
  Principal investigator: Dr. Daniel Fitzgerald
  Related Fogarty grant: Research Training Program in the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of AIDS-related MDR-TB in Haiti

• University of Malawi
  Principal investigator: Dr. Mina Hosseinipour
  Related Fogarty grant: Malawi HIV Implementation Research Scientist Training Program

• University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
  Principal investigator: Dr. Albert Ko
  Related Fogarty grant: Global Health Equity Scholars Program

• University of Zambia
  Principal investigator: Dr. Douglas Heimburger
  Related Fogarty grant: UNZA-Vanderbilt Partnership for HIV-Nutrition Research Training (UVP)

• University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences (UZCHS)
  Principal investigator: Dr. James Gita Hakim
  Related Fogarty grant: UZCHS-Promote Excellence in Research and Faculty Enhanced Career Training

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• Mentoring and mentorship training news, resources and funding for global health researchers
• About the Clayton-Dedonder Mentorship Fellows Program from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH)
• Yale joins the ‘surge’ to prepare African scientists to lead HIV treatment and prevention
  Yale News, July 18, 2018
• Past Clayton-Dedonder Global Health Mentorship Fellows Program awards:
  Fogarty awards new HIV/AIDS mentoring grants
  Fogarty news, January 6, 2014

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