May / June 2014 Global Health Matters Newsletter

Inside this Issue

• Universities meet to consider global health challenges
• Collins hails US-Brazil science collaborations
• Focus on National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) at NIH:
  • Global research is vital for deafness, speech disorders
  • Studies in developing countries identify causes of stuttering
  • Deafness studies will speed path to new treatments
  • Research in Pakistan yields findings on hereditary hearing loss
• Information and communications technology (ICT) research:
  • Fogarty encourages use of technology in research
  • Incorporating ICT into science and research in Peru
    Q and A with Fogarty and NIH grantee Dr Paticia Garcia
  • Implementing technology to advance science
    Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Profile: Fogarty Scholar Dr Victoria Ojeda studies health on US-Mexico border
• Ethics educational opportunities for researchers supported by Fogarty awards
• New awards enhance infectious disease research training
• Institute of Medicine studies global child health
• People in the news
• Global health briefs

Global Health Matters is produced by the Office of Communications at the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center. For more information about Global Health Matters, please contact the editor, Cathy Kristiansen, at catherine.kristiansen@nih.gov or 301-496-2075. All text produced in this newsletter is in the public domain and may be reprinted. Please credit Fogarty International Center. Images must be cleared for use with the individual source, as indicated.

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