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December 2024

• NIH Study Finds Tecovirimat Was Safe but Did Not Improve Mpox Resolution or Pain
  NIAID News, December 10, 2024
• Fogarty Makes a Match to Improve SCD Care
  NIH Record, December 6, 2025
• Single mutation in H5N1 influenza surface protein could enable easier human infection
  NIAID News, December 6, 2024
• A New View of Hemoglobin and its Role in Malaria
  NIAID News, December 5, 2024
• New Cornell tech to evaluate anemia to be used across India
  NIBIB News, December 2, 2024

November 2024

• Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 1108 population-representative studies with 141 million participants
  The Lancet, November 12, 2024
• Initiation and continued use of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis among pregnant and postpartum women in South Africa (PrEP-PP): a demonstration cohort study
  The Lancet, November 11, 2024
• Women's attitudes towards intimate partner violence in Guyana: a population-based study
  The Lancet Regional Health Americas, November 2024
• Knowledge, Attitudes and Confidence in Providing Dementia Care to Older Adults Among Nurses Practicing in Hanoi, Vietnam: A Cross-Sectional Study
  Wiley Online Library, November 11, 2024
• COVID-19 inflammatory signature in a Mozambican cohort: unchanged red blood series and reduced levels of IL-6 and other proinflammatory cytokines
  BMC Infectious Diseases, November 11, 2024
• Whitehead Recounts Journey to Developing Dengue Vaccine
  NIH Record, November 8, 2024
• Scientists Discover Cause, Potential Treatment for Cases of Deadly Autoimmune Disorder
  NIAID Now, November 6, 2024
• Study of H5N1 from an infected person
  NIH Research Matters, November 5, 2024

October 2024

• Many People with Long COVID Have Signs of Persistent SARS-CoV-2 Proteins, New Findings Show
  NIH Director’s Blog, October 31, 2024
• Shaping the Next Era of HIV Therapeutics and Care
  NIAID Now, October 29, 2024
• Genomic variants that increase risk of kidney disease are found in nearly one-third of West Africans
  NHGRI News, October 28, 2024
  
• Shifting power in global health will require leadership by the Global South and allyship by the Global North
  The Lancet, October 24, 2024
• Qualitative drivers of postoperative prophylactic antibiotics use and resistance in Ethiopia
  BMC Health Services Research, October 22, 2024
• Jean Nachega: collaborating for research on mpox in Africa
  The Lancet, October 19, 2024
• The Principles and Practice of Disease Eradication, co-authored by Fogarty's Joel Breman
  Oxford University Press, October 18, 2024
• Editorial: Learning from global food and nutrition insecurity, co-authored by Fogarty's Susan Vorkoper
  Frontiers in Public Health, October 17, 2024
• Mpox vaccine is safe and generates a robust antibody response in adolescents
  NIH News, October 16, 2024
• Kidney transplantation between donors and recipients with HIV is safe
  NIH News, October 16, 2024
• The U.S. Government and Global Health
  Kaiser Family Foundation, October 15, 2024
• Improving struggling medical and nursing students’ subjective vitality, school engagement and academic performance through a peer mentorship intervention programme: an intervention protocol
  BMC Medical Education, October 15, 2024
• Breakthrough Lenacapavir Trial Builds on Decades of NIH Investment in Basic Science
  NIH Office of AIDS Research Director’s blog, October 2, 2024

September 2024

• Mosquitoes use infrared detection to help find people
  NIH Research Matters, September 17, 2024
• NIH releases mpox research agenda
  NIH/NIAID news, September 17, 2024
• NIH study links neighborhood environment to prostate cancer risk in men with West African genetic ancestry
  NIH/NCI news, September 16, 2024
• Fatal Oropouche Virus Infections in Nonendemic Region, Brazil, 2024
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, September 13, 2024
• NIH awards establish pandemic preparedness research network
  NIH/NIAID news, September 13, 2024
• How to LAUNCH a Global Health Research Career
  NIH Record, September 13, 2024
• Genetic carriers for sickle cell disease have higher risks of blood clots across diverse ancestries
  NIH/NHGRI news, September 12, 2024
• The Crucial Role of Research in Addressing Global Cancer Stigma
  National Cancer Institute Center for Global Health Spotlight Blog, September 9, 2024
• SARS-CoV-2 Rapidly Evolves in People with Advanced HIV
  NIAID Now blog, September 9, 2024
• Editorial: A call for global solidarity and rapid action to control mpox, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipients Jean B. Nachega and  Jean‑Jacques Muyembe‑Tamfum
  The Lancet, September 9, 2024
  

August 2024

• Reflecting on my first 90 days as Fogarty director
  Fogarty International Center Director’s blog, July/August 2024
  
• Editorial: Is a Low-Dose Triple-Drug Combination Pill Protocol the Answer for Hypertension Control in Sub-Saharan Africa?, by George A. Mensah, director, Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
  JAMA, August 31, 2024
  
• Perspective: Mpox in Pregnancy — Risks, Vertical Transmission, Prevention, and Treatment, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipients Jean Nachega, Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, and Landon Meyer
  New England Journal of Medicine, August 28, 2024
• ‘Low-intensity’ blood stem cell transplants for sickle cell appear safe for lung health
  NIH/NHLBI news, August 27, 2024
  
• World Mosquito Day 2024—The Metabolic Mysteries of Mosquito Metabolism
  NIAID now blog, August 20 2024
• Hanchard Explores Genomics of African Populations
  NIH Record, August 16, 2024
• 2023 Outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo
  CDC outbreak news, August 15, 2024
• The antiviral tecovirimat is safe but did not improve clade I mpox resolution in Democratic Republic of the Congo
  NIH/NIAID news, August 15, 2024
  
• United States Government’s Response to the Clade I Mpox Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Other Countries in the Region
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services news, August 14, 2024
• Candidate malaria vaccine provides lasting protection in NIH-sponsored trials
  NIH/NIAID news, August 14, 2024
• Routine lab tests are not a reliable way to diagnose long COVID
  NIH news, August 12, 2024
• Charting the Path to an HIV-Free Generation
  NIAID Now blog, August 12, 2024
• Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies Evaluated in Many HIV Cure Strategies
  NIAID Now blog, August 6, 2024

July 2024

• NIAID Research to Eliminate the Threat of Viral Hepatitis Across the Globe
  NIAID Now blog, July 26, 2024
• Exploratory analysis associates HIV drug abacavir with elevated cardiovascular disease risk in large global trial
  NIH/NIAID news, July 23, 2024
• Testing transmission and infection of H5N1 from cows
  NIH Research Matters, July 23, 2024
• Long-acting injectable cabotegravir for HIV prevention is safe in pregnancy
  NIH/NIAID news, July 23, 2024
• Gene variant slows form of inherited Alzheimer’s disease
  NIH Research Matters, July 23, 2024
• An Isolated Viral Load Test May Generate False Positive Results for People Using Long-Acting PrEP
  NIAID news, July 23, 2024
• Study of Protective Gene Variant Provides Insight into Delaying Onset of Alzheimer’s Dementia
  NIH Director’s blog, July 18, 2024
• Kathleen Maletic Neuzil: new Fogarty International Center leader
  The Lancet, July 15, 2024
• Study suggests reinfections from the virus that causes COVID-19 likely have similar severity as original infection
  NIH news, July 11, 2024
  
• Features of H5N1 influenza viruses in dairy cows may facilitate infection, transmission in mammals
  NIH/NIAID news, July 8, 2024
• Ambassador Nkengasong Discusses Global HIV/AIDS Response
  NIH Record, July 5, 2024
  
• Tumor Signatures May Help Explain Global Differences in Kidney Cancer Rates
  Cancer Currents blog from the National Cancer Institute, July 1, 2024
• NIH-sponsored trial of nasal COVID-19 vaccine opens
  NIH News, July 1, 2024
• Umbilical cord milking does not appear to increase risk of neurodevelopmental delay in non-vigorous infants
  NIH News, July 1, 2024

June 2024

• DR2 Expands Network at Conference in Asia
  National Institute of Environmental Health Science’s Global Environmental Health Newsletter, June 2024
• NIH Statement on Preliminary Efficacy Results of Twice-Yearly Lenacapavir for HIV Prevention in Cisgender Women
  NIAID news release, June 26, 2024
• AI tool predicts response to cancer therapy
  NIH Research Matters, June 25, 2024
• New funding aims to bring diverse perspectives to the research workforce
  Fogarty news, June 18, 2024
• Launch of the WHO Collaborating Center for Global Cancer Control
  NCI Center for Global Health news, June 18, 2024
• Fogarty Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies Research Roundup
  Fogarty news, June 14, 2024
• Global cancer stigma research: a U.S. National Cancer Institute workshop report
  JNCI Monographs, June 2024
• NIAID Raises Awareness to Malaria-like Diseases in W. Africa
  NIAID Now blog, June 6, 2024
• NIH Releases H5N1 Influenza Research Agenda
  NIH/NIAID news, June 5, 2024
• Ambitious clinical trial could bring first TB vaccine in a century
  Fogarty news, June 4, 2024
• U.S. clinical trials begin for twice-yearly HIV prevention injection
  NIH/NIAID news, June 4, 2024

May 2024

• Global health reciprocal innovation: ethical, legal and regulatory considerations
  Part of the Fogarty-supported “Reciprocal Innovation in Global Health Research” article series
  BMJ Global Health, May 30, 2024
  • Related editorial: The case for global health reciprocal innovation 
    BMJ Global Health, May 30, 2024
• Novel vaccine concept generates immune responses that could produce multiple types of HIV broadly neutralizing antibodies
  NIH/NIAID news, May 30, 2024
• Changing the Trajectory of the Global Tobacco Epidemic
  NCI Center for Global Health Spotlight Blog, May 24, 2024
• Israel’s Chief Epidemiologist Visits VRC
  NIH Record, May 24, 2024
• High H5N1 influenza levels found in mice given raw milk from infected dairy cows
  NIH/NIAID news, May 24, 2024
• NIAID Research Team Develops 2nd Model of Crimean-Congo Fever
  NIAID news, May 21, 2024
• Impacts of human mobility on the citywide transmission dynamics of 18 respiratory viruses in pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic years, co-authored by Fogarty’s Amanda C. Perofsky, Chelsea L. Hansen, and Cécile Viboud
  Nature Communications, May 16, 2024
• U.S. Preparedness and Response to Increasing Clade I Mpox Cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — United States, 2024
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), May 16, 2024
• Vaccine Research Delegation from Japan Visits VRC
  NIH Record, May 10, 2024
• Global Forum Strengthens Commitments Towards Cervical Cancer Elimination
  NCI Center for Global Health Spotlight Blog, May 9, 2024
• Antibody reduces risk of malaria in children
  NIH Research Matters, May 7, 2024
• BARDA Launches the Next Generation of the BARDA Accelerator Network to Source and Support Startups across the U.S. and Globally
  BARDA News, May 6, 2024
• NIEHS shares research to identify chemicals’ effects on development
  Environmental Factor, May 2024
• President Biden Requests $12B for Research on Women’s Health
  NIH Catalyst, May-June 2024
• Welcoming Dr. Kathleen Neuzil as 13th director of the Fogarty International Center
  Fogarty news, May 6, 2024

April 2024

• New Tool Identifies Aedes Mosquito Exposure in People
  NIAID Now, May 1, 2024
• Lower Dose of Mpox Vaccine Is Safe and Generates Six-Week Antibody Response Equivalent to Standard Regimen
  NIH/NIAID news, April 27, 2024
• Experimental NIH malaria monoclonal antibody protective in Malian children
  NIH/NIAID news, April 26, 2024
• Use of Ebola Vaccines — Worldwide, 2021–2023
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), April 25, 2024
• Microbe Normally Found in the Mouth May Drive Progression of Colorectal Cancer
  NIH Director’s blog, April 11, 2024
• Memory of Joel Breman
  Fogarty Director’s blog, April 9, 2024
• NIH Ending the HIV Epidemic Projects Bridge Gaps Between HIV Research and Public Health Practice
  NIAID Now blog, April 8, 2024
• At 20, the African Journal Partnership Program Enters Young Adulthood
  National Library of Medicine’s Musing From the Mezzanine blog,  April 3, 2024
• Experimental Ebola Vaccines Found Safe and Capable of Producing Immune Responses in Healthy Adults
  NIAID news, April 3, 2024
• Surveillance To Track Progress Toward Polio Eradication — Worldwide, 2022–2023
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), April 4, 2024
• How lung distress from SARS-CoV-2 can cause heart damage
  NIH Research Matters, April 2, 2024
  

March 2024

• Joint Update by the Department of State and the Department of Health and Human Services on Negotiations Toward a Pandemic Accord
  HHS Factsheet, March 29, 2024
• Authorship of Publications Supported by NCI-Funded Grants Involving Low- and Middle-Income Countries, co-authored by the National Cancer Institute Center for Global Health’s Linsey Eldridge, Elise M. Garton, Kalina Duncan, and Satish Gopal
  JAMA, March 29, 2024
• NIH selects Dr. Kathleen Neuzil as director of the Fogarty International Center
  NIH news, March 28, 2024
  
• Ceftriaxone-Resistant Gonorrhea — China, 2022
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), March 28, 2024
  
• Hotter days put human health at risk
  NIH Medline Plus, March 26, 2024
  
• Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment Update — U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, 36 Countries, 2016–2023
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), March 21, 2024
  
• Severe lung infection during COVID-19 can cause damage to the heart
  NHLBI news, March 20, 2023
• 25 years of Cancer Research and Care on the Island of Ireland
  National Cancer Institute, Center for Global Health news, March 14, 2024
• US-Sweden Cancer Summit - Bridging the Research to Implementation Gap
  National Cancer Institute, Center for Global Health news, March 13, 2024
• WHO and UNICEF launch free online course to address children’s environmental health
  WHO news, March 13, 2024
• Designing a new antibiotic to combat drug resistance
  NIH Research Matters, March 12, 2024
• Long-acting HIV treatment benefits adults with barriers to daily pill taking and adolescents with suppressed HIV
  NIH/NIAID news, March 6, 2024
• Children surpass a year of HIV remission after treatment pause
  NIH/NIAID news, March 6, 2024
• NIEHS catalyzes research collaborations in India
  Environmental Factor, March 2024
• Identifying barriers to life-saving diarrhea care
  NIH Research Matters, March 5, 2024
• New report documents increase in HIV drug resistance to dolutegravir
  WHO news, March 5, 2024
• Vaginal ring and oral pre-exposure prophylaxis found safe for HIV prevention throughout pregnancy
  NIH/NIAID news, March 5, 2024
• Tools Underestimate Cardiovascular Event Risk in People with HIV
  NIAID news, March 4, 2024
  
• The HIV-2 proviral landscape is dominated by defective proviruses, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipient Roger Shapiro and Fogarty trainee Catherine K. Koofhethile
  AIDS, March 1, 2024

February 2024

• Progress Toward Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Elimination — Worldwide, 2012–2022
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, February 29, 2024
• Leaders call for scale-up in implementing One Health approach
  WHO news, February 29, 2024
• New Guidelines for Use of Statins by People with HIV to Prevent Cardiovascular Events
  HIV.gov blog, February 29, 2024
• SARS-CoV-2 fragments may cause problems after infectionNIH Research Matters, February 27, 2024
• Intervention reduces likelihood of developing postpartum anxiety and depression by more than 70%
  NIH news, February 26, 2024
• Looking back to see forward: multidirectional learning between the US Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program and the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
  Part of the Fogarty-supported “Reciprocal Innovation in Global Health Research” article series
  BMJ Global Health, February 23, 2024
• Progress Toward Measles Elimination — World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region, 2019–2022
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, February 22, 2024
• Statement: Long-Acting HIV Treatment Demonstrates Efficacy in People with Challenges Taking Daily Medicine as Prescribed
  NIAID news, February 21, 2024
• 275 million new genetic variants identified in NIH precision medicine data
  NIH news, February 20, 2024
• Researchers optimize genetic tests for diverse populations to tackle health disparities
  NIH news, February 20, 2024
  • Related commentary: The All of Us Research Program is an opportunity to enhance the diversity of US biomedical research, co-authored by leaders across NIH, including Fogarty Acting Director Peter Kilmarx
    Nature Medicine, February 19, 2024
• NIH Hosts Annual Global Health Workshop with Gates Foundation
  NIH Record, February 16, 2024
• Podcast: A Global Outlook on Women, Power, and Cancer
  National Cancer Institute's Inside Cancer Careers Podcast, February 15, 2024
• How a Simple Tool Is Saving Lives of Children with Cancer in Latin America
  National Cancer Institute's Cancer Currents blog, February 15, 2024
• COVID-19 vaccination and boosting during pregnancy protects infants for six months
  NIH/NIAID news, February 14, 2024
• A researcher-exchange programme made me a better doctor at home and abroad – profile of former Fogarty Global Health Fellow Caleb Skipper
  Nature, February 12, 2024
• Seeing is believing: My year helming the Fogarty International Center
  Fogarty Director’s blog, February 8, 2024
  
• India’s First Homegrown CAR T-Cell Therapy Has Roots in NCI Collaboration
  National Cancer Institute's Cancer Currents blog, February 7, 2024
• Synchrony of Bird Migration with Global Dispersal of Avian Influenza Reveals Exposed Bird Orders, co-authored by Fogarty’s Nidia Trovão
  Nature Communications, February 6, 2024
• Novel functional insights into ischemic stroke biology provided by the first genome-wide association study of stroke in indigenous Africans, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipients Bruce Ovbiagele and Mayowa O. Owolabi, Fogarty trainees Onoja Akpa, Reginald Obiako, Godwin O. Osaigbovo, Abiodun Adeoye, Okechukwu S. Ogah, Godwin Ogbole, and Akinkunmi Okekunle, and National Human Genome Research Institute’s Charles Rotimi
  Genome Medicine, February 5, 2024
• CDC Opens New East Asia and Pacific Regional Office in Japan
  CDC news release, February 5, 2024
• French Public Health Research Leaders Visit NIH
  NIH Record, February 2, 2024
• Findings in Tuberculosis Immunity Point Toward New Approaches to Treatment and Prevention
  NIH Director’s blog, February 1, 2024
• Implementation science can advance environmental justice research
  Environmental Factor, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), February 2024

January 2024

• PAHO releases toolkit to enhance management of cardiovascular risk and hypertension in the Americas
  PAHO news, January 31, 2024
• Building Research Capacity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries and Pandemic Preparedness: Lessons Learned and Future Directions, co-authored by Acting Fogarty Director Peter Kilmarx, former Fogarty Advisory Board Member Karen A. Goraleski, and Fogarty grant recipients John F. Lindo and Nancy Gore Saravia
  The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, January 23, 2024
• Advances in Global Implementation Science at NCI
  Dispatches from Implementation Science at NCI blog, January 2024
• Impact of regulatory tightening of the Hungarian tobacco retail market on availability, access and cigarette smoking prevalence of adolescents, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipient Kristie Foley
  Tobacco Control, January 19, 2024
• NIH-developed HIV antibodies protect animals in proof-of-concept study
  NIH/NIAID news, January 17, 2024
• Scaling up antivenom for snakebite envenoming in the Brazilian Amazon: a cost-effectiveness analysis, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipient Charles Gerardo
  The Lancet Regional Health Americas, January 2024
• Implementation of a Multi-Site Digitally-Enhanced School Clinician Training and ADHD/ODD Intervention Program in Mexico: Randomized Controlled Trial of CLS-R-FUERTE, co-authored by Fogarty Global Brain Disorders Research grant recipient Lauren Haack
  Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science, January 9, 2024
• Effects of Cooking with Liquefied Petroleum Gas or Biomass on Stunting in Infants, authored by HAPIN Trial investigators, supported by Fogarty and other NIH Institutes and Centers
  New England Journal of Medicine, January 4, 2024
• Liquefied Petroleum Gas or Biomass Cooking and Severe Infant Pneumonia, authored by HAPIN Trial investigators, supported by Fogarty and other NIH Institutes and Centers
  New England Journal of Medicine, January 4, 2024
• Public health and research ethics education: the experience of developing a new cadre of bioethicists at a Ugandan institution, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipients Gertrude N. Kiwanuka and Sana Loue
  BMC Medical Education, January 3, 2024
• TBscreen: A passive cough classifier for tuberculosis screening with a controlled dataset, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipients Videlis Nduba and Thomas Hawn
  Science Advances, January 3, 2024
• Rapid dynamic changes of FL.2 variant: A case report of COVID-19 breakthrough infection, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipients Roger Shapiro, Joseph Makhema, and Shahin Lockman, and trainees Sikhulile Moyo, Gobuiwang Khilly Kurusa (Gasenna), and Simani Gaseitsiwe
  International Journal of Infectious Diseases, January 2024

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