Dr. Flora Katz will retire from her position as Director of Fogarty’s Division of Training and Research (DITR) in January 2025. At Fogarty, DITR is one of four key organizational structures; it aims to build the scientific research pipeline across the globe by administering grants and fellowship programs at sites in more than 100 countries. The division’s impact is felt both in the U.S. and abroad.
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Fogarty members joined the global leaders, scientists, researchers, and policymakers who gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly’s annual summit to discuss how science and innovation accelerate the achievement of sustainable development goals. Science Summit 2024 sessions moderated by Fogarty emphasized One Health and implementation science.
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For his Fogarty-funded project, Dr. Arthur Johnson investigated survival outcomes among HIV-positive women receiving tamoxifen for breast cancer in Botswana. Johnson, who was a Fogarty Fellow through the INSIGHT program in 2023, is currently an oncology surgery resident at Kalmar Region Hospital in Sweden.
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In this Q&A, Flora Katz, PhD, who joined Fogarty in 2001, discusses her earliest interest in science and her years at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied cell and molecular biology. She also talks about her pre-Fogarty life, which included research on wildlife conservation and biology in Malawi, Zambia, Israel, and Indonesia. Katz will resign her position as director of Fogarty’s Division of Training and Research (DITR) in January 2025.
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Deputy Director Dr. Peter Kilmarx discusses his new insights into the challenges and aspirations of global health faculty and trainees at several U.S. universities – the University of Notre Dame, Brown University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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In a recent WALS lecture, Dr. Christian Happi discussed infectious disease genomics and his work during Ebola and COVID-19 outbreaks. The long-time Fogarty grantee noted that using genomic data to create tools for use in the field is needed alongside enhanced African infrastructure.
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The ClinRegs website, launched by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) in 2014, is a database that provides up-to-date, in-depth information on clinical trial regulatory and ethics requirements for 23 countries. In the past year alone, nearly 68,000 users in 166 countries, including the U.S., have visited ClinRegs.
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