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UN meeting highlights NCDs A U.N. High-level Meeting on chronic, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) will address the threat caused by these ailments, which increasing strain developing countries. Read full article... Shining a spotlight on NCDs: opinion by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass Q and A with NHLBI Acting Director Dr. Susan Shurin
Focus on Chronic Diseases NCDs: A silent scourge threatening global health Fogarty funds new NCD programs Reducing the cost of rating heart disease Inexpensive polypills may add years for heart patients The chronic challenge of household air pollution Confronting South Asia's diabetes epidemic Changing the color of the rice bowl to beat diabetes India residents build park, exercise more Building the capacity to battle cancer
Solving a puzzle to stop infectious disease Research by computational mathematician Dr. Shweta Bansal focuses on how humans interact with social and natural environments, and how that impacts infectious disease transmission. Read full article...
Fogarty supports zoonotic disease research Fogarty and NIH, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, support Duke University's groundbreaking research on diseases that can jump from animals to humans. Read full article...
Lessons learned from flu pandemics An examination of historical influenza pandemics guest edited by Fogarty scientists shows how past influenza pandemics have much to teach today’s scientists about future outbreaks. Read full article...
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2011 Global Health Conference November 13-15, 2011 - Montreal, Canada Jointly presented by the Canadian Society for International Health, the Consortium of Universities for Global Health and the Global Health Education Consortium.
Ecology of Infectious Diseases Initiative (EID) This joint NIH-National Science Foundation program is currently being competed under NSF program announcement (NSF 10-616). Deadline: December 14, 2011
Establishing an evidence base for e-health , a call for papers from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Evidence is needed to promote equity of access to information and health services, and to strengthen activities and programmes that support local, regional, national and global health communities. Deadline: November 20, 2011
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