March / April 2015 Global Health Matters

Inside this Issue

• Brain program catalyzes research, builds capacity
• Brain disorders research: a decade of progress
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Lack of adherence in HIV trial has broad implications
• NIH meeting advances Alzheimer's research agenda
• Focus on infectious diseases
  • Global swine trade facilitates evolution, spread of flu
  • Scientists work to eliminate disease carried by pigs
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Rockefeller Oteng studies trauma, injury in Ghana
• Q and A with outgoing USAID Administrator Dr Rajiv Shah
• HHS expands public access to research
• NIH examines lead’s impact on dementia, bone density
• People in the news
• Global health briefs

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