November / December 2018 Global Health Matters Newsletter

Inside this Issue

• NIH, Fogarty receive funding increase for Fiscal Year 2019
• Fogarty awards $4.4 million to advance mobile health
• New funding data available in World Report mapping tool
• Disease modelers mark Fogarty’s 50th anniversary
• Focus on suicide: NIH-supported research targets global suicide burden
  • Research boosts mental health task-shifting, innovative approaches
  • Frugal innovation fights India’s high suicide burden
  • Global studies help bring down China’s suicide rate
• NIH weighs new opportunities in global health research
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission in South Africa: Q and A with Dr Glenda Gray
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Cameron Gaskill studies HIV referral patterns in Ghana
• US First Lady Melania Trump supports USAID programs in Africa
• People in the news
• Global health briefs

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