Fogarty awards $22M through new HIV research training program

September / October 2013 | Volume 12, Issue 5

A new NIH program supporting HIV-related research training will provide $22 million over five years for activities in 15 low- and middle-income countries. Fogarty's HIV Research Training Program is issuing 22 awards, which are intended to strengthen the ability of the grantee institutions to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic, while building expertise in a particular scientific or critical research infrastructure area. Successful applicants proposed a broad range of focus topics including nutrition, mental health, co-infections and various aspects of implementation science, among others.

"These awards, which comprise the first round of funding for this new program, will help scientists and clinicians in developing countries to build much-needed research infrastructure," said Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass. "The resulting advances will benefit all, providing trainees the opportunity to collaborate with NIH researchers on U.S. government-funded HIV/AIDS initiatives."

Weill Cornell Medical College's award will help train a multidisciplinary group of investigators to conduct HPV vaccine trials and study cervical cancer at the Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections in Port au Prince. A grant to University of Washington will support training at Kenya's largest teaching hospital in implementation science and health metrics, with the goal of improving health care infrastructure. Developing a social and behavioral sciences platform focused on HIV/AIDS care at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Tanzania will be the purpose of Duke University Medical Center's funding. Dartmouth Medical School will also establish a new project in Tanzania, providing training designed to improve the prevention and treatment of HIV-TB coinfections through clinical and operational research. A new initiative examining the role of nutrition and metabolic health in HIV will be established in Namibia by Tufts University.

Additional awards (see full list below) will focus on a wide range of HIV research and treatment issues, including mental health, male circumcision, drug resistance, research methodology, mother-to-child transmission, noncommunicable diseases and management and analysis of datasets. Five institutions are receiving planning awards, much smaller grants that will eventually facilitate new training in Kenya, Peru, Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

The new program, which focuses on increasing capacity at the institutional level, consolidates two long-standing Fogarty programs, the AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP) and the International Implementation, Clinical, Operational and Health Services Research Training Award for AIDS TB (IICOHRTA-AIDS/TB) program.

The awards are partly supported by NIH funding partners, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

Full Awards - Fogarty HIV Research Training Program

• Tuberculosis Research Institute at MUHAS (Tanzania)
  Dartmouth Medical School
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Ford von Reyn

• Research Training Program for Low- and Middle-Income Country Institutions (Tanzania)
  Duke University Medical Center
  Principal Investigator: Dr. John Bartlett

• Fogarty HIV Research Training Program for Low and Middle-Income Countries (Botswana)
  Harvard School of Public Health
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Myron Essex

• HIV-TB Fogarty Research Training Program (India)
  Johns Hopkins University
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert Bollinger

• Male Circumcision and Use of Foreskin Tissues for HIV Prevention in Uganda
  Johns Hopkins University
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Ronald Gray

• Optimizing HIV Prevention in Ethiopia through Implementation Science
  Johns Hopkins University
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Andrea Ruff

• Training in HIV-related Non-communicable Disease Complications in Malawi
  Johns Hopkins University
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Taha Taha

• Training Program on HIV Diversity and Drug Resistance-Enhancing Research Capacity (Cameroon)
  New York University School of Medicine
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Phillipe Nyambi

• Multidisciplinary NeuroAIDS Research Training to Improve HIV Outcomes in Nigeria
  Northwestern University
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Babafemi Taiwo and Dr. Kevin Robertson

• Training Program in Nutrition and Metabolism in HIV (Namibia)
  Tufts University School of Medicine
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Christine Wanke

• HIV Implementation Science Research Training Program (Zimbabwe)
  University of California, Berkeley
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Arthur Reingold

• International Research Training on TB and Other Pulmonary Complications of HIV (Uganda)
  University of California, Berkeley
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Arthur Reingold and Dr. John Lucian Davis

• UCLA/China CDC Training Program in Advanced Research Methodologies
  University of California, Los Angeles
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Roger Detels

• Xiangya-UCLA HIV/AIDS Nursing Research Initiative (China)
  University of California, Los Angeles
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Ann Williams and Dr. Li Li

• Improving the HIV Care Cascade in Kenya through Implementation Science Training
  University of Washington
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Carey Farquhar

• Haiti Research Training Program in the Prevention of AIDS Cervical Cancer
  Weill Cornell Medical College
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Daniel Fitzgerald

Infrastructure Training Program Grant - Fogarty HIV Research Training Program

• Developing the OSP at Muhimbili: A North-South Training Collaborative (Tanzania)
  Dartmouth Medical School
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Waddell and Dr. Peter Mason

Planning Grants - Fogarty HIV Research Training Program

• Enhancing Capacity in HIV Prevention Implementation Research
  Africa University
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Rugare Abigail Kangwende

• Building Implementation Science Capacity in HIV
  Makerere University
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Moses Robert Kamya

• Designing Research Training for Rwandans in Emerging HIV and Drug Therapy
  RASD, Rwanda
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Eugene Mutimura

• Planning a Strategic HIV Population Science Training Grant at UPCH in Peru
  Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Carlos F. Caceres

• A HIV Planning Grant for a Physician-Scientist Training Program
  University of Nairobi
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Ruth W. Nduati

More Information

• Learn more about the Fogarty HIV Research Training Program.
• View a full list of Fogarty HIV Research Training awards by institution.

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