September / October 2012 Global Health Matters Newsletter

Inside this Issue

• Fogarty launches GEOHealth environmental and occupational research and training hubs
• Focus on transforming Africa's medical education with MEPI
  • Africa transforms its medical education - page 1 of 2
  • Continued > Africa transforms its medical education - page 2 of 2
  • Building a health care workforce in Africa: opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Fogarty celebrates accomplishments of 25-year-old HIV/AIDS program
• HIV/AIDS research must focus on a vaccine or cure
• Q and A with Ambassador Mark R. Dybul, MD
• $14M awarded for chronic disease research training through NCD-Lifespan program
• NIH and Wellcome Trust fund $38M in African genomics studies through H3Africa
• Resistance to malaria drugs is a growing concern
• Faster new test can prevent tuberculosis deaths
• Fogarty Framework grants to spur global health innovations
• Research evidence key to health policy decisions
• Bollywood, like Hollywood, raises risk of teen smoking
• Coca-Cola funds Russian scientists to study at NIH
• Global health briefs
• People in the news

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