September / October 2014 Global Health Matters Newsletter

Inside this Issue

• US-Africa summit encourages investments in health
• NIH speeds efforts to test vaccine against Ebola
• Fogarty funds cutting-edge biodiversity initiatives
• Fogarty launches new program to spur mobile health innovations
• Focus on HIV comorbidities
  • Chronic diseases threaten progress against HIV/AIDS:
    Scientists propose urgent NCD research agenda
• Trauma and injury in Pakistan
  • Pakistan builds trauma and injury research capacity
  • Researchers aim to cut child injury in Pakistani homes
• Research is essential to improving health in Africa
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Jennifer Tang researches women's health in Malawi
• Q and A with Dr Michael M Gottesman, NIH Deputy Director for Intramural Research
• NIH prepares for new MEPI research support in Africa
• People in the news
• Global health briefs

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