January/February 2012 Global Health Matters Newsletter

Global Health Matters, Fogarty International Center's newsletter, distributed by email every two months, includes the latest information on global health research.

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Inside this Issue

• NIH research essential to global AIDS relief efforts
• NIH Director Francis Collins tours India research sites
• Budget set for NIH, new translational center launched
• USAID introduces strategic framework for global health
• Plan drafted for USAID university engagement program
• Research plays key role in new HHS global health strategy
• NIH-supported biodiversity project is first to receive Nagoya funding
• Q and A with Dr Ted Trimble, Director of NCI's Center for Global Health
• US-Irish cancer collaboration agreement is renewed
• Emerging economies provide new opportunities for research collaborations:
  opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• FOCUS on mHealth
• Mobile health research agenda continues to evolve
• Electronic protocols improve child health in Tanzania
• Managing diabetes with mobile health tools
• Mobile phones help to prevent HIV transmission in breast milk
• Global health briefs
• People in the news

Global Health Matters is produced by the Office of Communications at the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center. For more information about Global Health Matters, please contact the managing editor, Ann Puderbaugh, at ann.puderbaugh@nih.gov or 301-496-2075. All text produced in this newsletter is in the public domain and may be reprinted. Please credit Fogarty International Center. Images must be cleared for use with the individual source, as indicated.

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