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 Global 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.

Recent News

• Women's attitudes towards intimate partner violence in Guyana: a population-based study
  The Lancet Regional Health Americas, November 2024
• Improving traumatic injury care in Georgia, Armenia and Moldova
  Global Health Matters, May/June 2024
• Talking Global Health with Fogarty: Dr. Charles Gerardo on his research on Snakebites [VIDEO]
  Fogarty International Center, 2024
• Epidemiology and perceptions of non-fatal burns among select youth (15–24 years old) from Peshawar Pakistan; a sequential explanatory mixed methods study, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipients Adnan A Hyder and Nadeem Ullah Khan and trainee Uzma Rahim Khan
  Burns Open, 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

Related Fogarty News and Information

Courtesy of Charles GerardoWhile most people bitten by poisonous snakes in the Amazon, like this cotton mouth viper, receive antivenom, it is often administered past the recommended six-hour window.

Focus: Antivenom, an essential medicine in need of a 21st century makeover

• Catapulting antivenom into the 21st Century
  
• Engineering a new molecule to neutralize venoms
  
• Optimizing access to antivenom in the Amazon
• A brief history of antivenom

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NIH News and Resources

• Traumatic Stress Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Research at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
• NIH Roundtable on Emergency Trauma Research
  Annals of Emergency Medicine, November 2010

Other US Government Resources

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
• CDC Injury and Violence Prevention and Control
• CDC National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• CDC NIOSH Extramural Research and Training Programs
• CDC Worldwide Injuries and Violence information and resources

Other Online Resources

• Emergency Physicians International (EPi)
• Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit
• World Bank resources:
  • Road crashes are the biggest safety challenge for youths, World Bank blog, March 16, 2021
    
• WHO resources
  • WHO kicks off Decade of Action for Road Safety, WHO departmental news, October 28, 2021
  • The Power of Cities: Tackling Noncommunicable Diseases and Road Traffic Injuries, June 3, 2020
    

Updated November 19, 2024