March / April 2016 Global Health Matters

Inside this Issue

• Ebola, Zika modelers aim to inform policy decisions
• PAHO's Dr Marcos Espinal on global partnerships to fight Zika, Ebola and other diseases
• Commission considers how to improve global disease outbreak response
• Focus on the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS): 50 years of research and training to improve global health
  • Scientists study foodborne carcinogens called aflatoxins
  • School program in rural Bangladesh reduces arsenic exposure, study shows
  • Researchers help prevent heat-related deaths in India
• Profile: Fogarty engineering fellow Dr Arti Kundu tests water purity in India
• We have much to learn from research in Haiti
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Poll says supporting global health is the right thing to do
• HHS revises global health strategy
• People in the news
• Global health briefs

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