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Trauma and injury news, resources and funding for global health researchers
Trauma and injury encompass one of the leading causes of death and disability in the world. Developing countries, where financial and medical resources are sorely lacking, bear the greater proportion of the burden of injuries. Injuries can be unintentional, such as traffic accidents, burns, falls and poisonings, or intentional, resulting from deliberate acts of violence against oneself or others. Environmental injury can be caused by pollution (including indoor air pollution), water contamination, poisoning and other sources. Occupational injury and trauma can result from industrial accidents and farm injuries. Workers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) carry a disproportionate burden of the worldwide occupational injury and illness.
Fogarty's International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Research Training Program awards grants to conduct research training on the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of injury and trauma in LMICs. Fogarty's Global Environmental and Occupational Health (GEOHealth) program, co-sponsored by the CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), supports trauma and injury research and training in the areas of environmental and occupational injury.
Across the NIH, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) supports a Traumatic Stress Research Program, and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) supports Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Research.
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- Focus: Fogarty-led project aims to advance emergency care research in low- and middle-income countries
Jul / Aug 2019 Global Health Matters - Focus on Global Environmental and Occupational Health (GEOHealth) hubs
May / Jun 2019 Global Health Matters - Grantee news: US helps Pakistan, Afghanistan improve trauma care
ShareAmerica, October 23, 2017
- Fogarty invests $10M in trauma, injury training
Jan / Feb 2017 Global Health Matters
- Fogarty awards $3.8M in exploratory grants for chronic disease and injury research
Fogarty news, November 3, 2016
- Grantee news: Unmet surgical needs high for world’s 60 million refugees
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health news, May 26, 2016
- Profile: Fogarty Scholar Dr Andrew Gardner casts light on alcohol injuries in Ghana
May / Jun 2016 Global Health Matters
- Report on the evaluation of the Fogarty International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Program, released May 2016
- Scientists study foodborne carcinogens called aflatoxins
Mar / Apr 2016 Global Health Matters
- School program in rural Bangladesh reduces arsenic exposure, study shows
Mar / Apr 2016 Global Health Matters
- Profile: Fogarty engineering fellow Dr Arti Kundu tests water purity in India
Mar / Apr 2016 Global Health Matters
- Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Rockefeller Oteng studies trauma, injury in Ghana
Mar / Apr 2015 Global Health Matters
- NIH examines lead’s impact on dementia, bone density
Mar / Apr 2015 Global Health Matters
- Grantee news: Strong Connection between Violence and Mental Illness in Guatemala During Civil War Lessens in Postwar Period, Penn Study Finds
Penn Medicine news, February 26, 2015
- Injuries cause 5 million global deaths each year
Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
Jan/Feb 2015 Global Health Matters
- HHS Releases 13th Report on Carcinogens
NIEHS/NIH news, October 2, 2014
- Trauma and injury in Pakistan
Sep / Oct 2014 Global Health Matters
- Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Robin Petroze studies Rwanda's surgical capacity
Sep / Oct 2013 Global Health Matters
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May / Jun 2011 Global Health Matters
- Traditional surma eye makeup poses lead risk
May / Jun 2010 Global Health Matters
- Profile: Working for clean water in Argentina, Dr. Veronica Rajal
Mar / Apr 2010 Global Health Matters
- Trauma research project aims to reduce Egyptian traffic deaths
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