November / December 2013 Global Health Matters Newsletter

Inside this Issue

• Bill Gates to deliver 2013 Barmes lecture at NIH
• The road ahead for PEPFAR: Q and A with Ambassador Eric Goosby
• NIH programs build synergy, capacity in Africa
• WHO's Chan urges greater focus on chronic diseases
• Fogarty funding spurs global health innovations
• Focus on global tobacco use:
  • Fogarty considers evolving global tobacco landscape
  • We must do more to discourage global tobacco use: Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Researchers suggest phased flu vaccination for China
• Profile: Fulbright-Fogarty Fellow Navid Shams analyzes long-term outcomes in ICU patients in Peru
• Fogarty funds ecology, genetics studies of malaria in Ghana
• NIDA Director Dr Nora D Volkow discusses addiction with the Dalai Lama
• People in the news
• Global health briefs

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