May / June 2015 Global Health Matters

Inside this Issue

• Rwandan Health Minister Dr Agnes Binagwaho presents NIH global health lecture
• NIH, South Africa partner on $8M in research projects
• Focus on the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research:
  • NIH marks 20 years of advancing behavioral and social sciences
  • Behavioral, social sciences are vital to global health
    Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Global pandemic of fake medicines poses urgent risk, scientists say
• Q and A with world-renowned malaria research expert Dr Chris Plowe
• Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass receives 2015 Albert B Sabin Gold Medal Award
• Fogarty web tools facilitate collaboration
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Anna Babakhanyan in Cameroon assesses HIV impact in utero
• NIH encourages veterinarians to consider research careers
• Fogarty posts concepts for new LMIC training grant and several existing programs
• New TB hospital and research center opens in Haiti
• Burkitt's lymphoma studies may also advance research on other cancers, HIV, malaria
• People in the news
• Global health briefs

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