January/February 2012 Global Health Matters Newsletter

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

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