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Global Health Matters July/August 2025
Nutrition research explores food as medicine—globally and in the U.S.
Good nutrition is crucial for maintaining health. A balanced diet not only fuels the body, it also lowers the risk of illness, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and infectious diseases. The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative, crafted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), aims to ensure that all Americans live longer, healthier lives.
Nutritional research in Tanzania may help coal miners in the U.S.
TB research conducted in Tanzania will likely prove beneficial for Americans, say Dr. Scott Heysell, director of the Center for Global Health Equity at University of Virginia, and Dr. Stellah Mpagama, a physician-scientist at Kibong’oto Infectious Diseases Institute in Tanzania.
Improving child & teen health in Peru and Kenya
For her Fogarty LAUNCH Fellowship project, Dr. Gwenyth Lee examined the impact of enteric (intestinal) infections on the growth and development of a cohort of children in Iquitos, Peru.
Caring for casualties in low-resource conflict settings
Solutions devised by trauma care teams in Burkina Faso reflect warfare experience in a context that might resemble what the U.S. may face in the future, says Dr. Hannah Binzen Wild, a general surgery resident at the University of Washington.
What do you mean when you say “capacity building?”
Between 2007 and 2012, Dr. Yukari Manabe, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, learned all about capacity when she served as head of research at the fledgling Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), founded in Kampala in 2002.
Culturally relevant meal plans lead to better health
Halimatou Alaofè, PhD, associate professor at the University of Arizona, conducts research in her native Benin. Her work focuses on long-term nutritional management of type 2 diabetes.
Q&A with Christine Sizemore: A pragmatic perspective on global health
Christine Sizemore, PhD, retired from her position as Director of Fogarty's Division of International Relations in April. “My first trip to Africa showed me what it means to have TB as a patient, as a community, and what TB means for healthcare providers....”
Building capacity for research on sexually transmitted infections
Fogarty’s Acting Director Dr. Peter Kilmarx organized a symposium in July for the World Congress of the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Research and the International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections.
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Updated August 22, 2025
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