July / August 2020 Global Health Matters Newsletter

Inside this Issue

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• NIH launches $58M Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa program
• Decolonizing and democratizing global health are difficult, but vital goals
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Focus on the Fogarty community's response to COVID-19
  • COVID-19 creates new syndemic on US-Mexico border
  • Researcher collaborates to solve pandemic inequities at home and abroad
  • Scientists study intersection of COVID-19 and HIV
  • Fogarty fellow captures 'lived experiences' of frontline health care workers, COVID-19 patients in South Africa
  • Former Fogarty HIV trainee helps lead Dominican Republic's COVID response
    Q and A with Dr William Duke
  • Profile: Fogarty fellow Dr Mark Brady’s tuberculosis training in Peru useful in combatting COVID-19
• NIEHS explores global environmental change and health
• NIH director encourages 2020 Fogarty Fellows and Scholars during virtual orientation
• Essence establishes funding coordination mechanism
• People in the global health news
• Global health news briefs

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