November / December 2014 Global Health Matters Newsletter

Inside this Issue

• NIH accelerates clinical trials of Ebola vaccines
• Obama visits NIH to call for more funding for Ebola research
• Building the human capacity to deal with Ebola: How can we prevent future disease outbreaks?
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Lessons learned from 1976 Ebola outbreak
  Q and A with Fogarty Scientist Emeritus Dr Joel Breman
• Focus on sickle cell disease research
  • Research needed to treat sickle cell disease in Africa
  • Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Juliana Anyanwu studies sickle cell drug in Uganda
• Funders urged to invest in Africa's research capacity
• Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass delivers Enders lecture at IDWeek
• Study probes link between intestinal infections, child development
• Research effort tackles Latin American child obesity
• People in the news
• Global health briefs

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