September / October 2019 Global Health Matters Newsletter

Inside this Issue

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• Innovative mobile health projects in LMICs receive $5M from Fogarty and NIH partners
• Scientists in Madagascar study novel methods to predict disease spread with support from NIH-NSF Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Initiative (EEID)
• Fogarty awards $10M for early-career researchers to establish independent careers in global health
• FOCUS: Fogarty grantees publish book to boost biomedical engineering in Africa
• Celebrating 30 years of capacity building in Rakai, Uganda to advance research discoveries
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Building AIDS research capacity in Botswana
  Q and A with Dr. Simani Gaseitsiwe
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Neiloy Sircar uses legal skills to study human rights and HIV/AIDS in Kenya
• WHO calls for more research into microplastics pollution
• People in global health news
• Global health briefs

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