March / April 2013 Global Health Matters Newsletter

Inside this Issue

• Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) 2013 meeting:
  • Partnerships, capacity building needed to strengthen universities in developing nations
  • NIH pursuing unprecedented opportunities in global health
• Information and communications technology (ICT) research:
  • Fogarty launches eCapacity program to spur technology use
  • Realizing ICT's promise for global research, training: opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
  • GETHealth summit mulls widening technology use
• Q and A with Dr Christopher P Austin, NCATS director
• US and India advance diabetes research plans
• India research agency transitions to new director
• Focus on moving science to policy more quickly:
  • Scientists must transfer findings to practice
  • Smoking research influenced policy in Hungary
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Evelyn Hsieh studies bone loss and cancer in China
• Congressman John Edward Fogarty: a good life
• Global health briefs
• People in the news

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