May / June 2020 Global Health Matters Newsletter

Inside this Issue

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• NIH to invest $58M to catalyze data science and innovation in Africa
• NIH closes sexual harassment loopholes in guidelines governing its grantees
• COVID research, diagnostics projects gear up at NIH
• Focus on the Fogarty community's response to COVID-19
  • Fogarty community responds to COVID-19 in many ways
  • Former Fogarty grantee leads COVID-19 genomics work in Africa
    Q and A with Dr Christian Happi
  • Profile: Former Fogarty Scholar Dr Jessica Manning helps Cambodia respond to COVID
  • Fogarty grantee Dr Manasi Kumar studies COVID impact on pregnant teens
  • Fogarty Fellow Dr Dang Hoang Minh addresses COVID mental health needs in Vietnam
  • Conducting research in a pandemic raises thorny bioethics issues
• More than $18M to be awarded for HIV research training
• Fogarty awards $5M for bioethics research training
• Fogarty adds search function to global health funding directory
• Commemorative stamp issued to mark 40th anniversary of smallpox eradication
• People in global health news
• Global health news briefs

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