Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies (DIEPS)
The Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies (DIEPS) conducts original research in epidemiology and mathematical modeling of diseases, genomic evolution of pathogens, implementation sciences and population studies while seeking to enhance the scientific underpinnings of policies related to international health. DIEPS works to build research capacity in low- and middle-income countries through training and collaborative research in mathematical modeling, genomic epidemiology, bio-risk management, implementation sciences and studies in childhood health and development.
Cécile Viboud, PhD, Acting Director
Research Roundup
Read summaries of recently published studies from Fogarty's Division of International Epidemiology & Population Studies (DIEPS).
Fogarty's extramural programs provide funding to perform research and to train researchers in a variety of global health areas. See program pages for status, eligibility, funding announcements and deadlines.
- Country Eligibility for Fogarty Training Grants
- Fogarty's role in global health
Research and Research Training
This grant program supports education and research training to develop ethics expertise in LMICs. The funded programs complement other global health research and research training programs in the mission areas of NIH Institutes and Centers.
The Global Health Bioinformatics Research Training Program, through the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Initiative, supports bioinformatics research training programs at LMIC institutions in Africa with significant genomics research capacity.
Global Brain and Nervous System Disorders Research across the Lifespan program supports collaborative research and capacity building projects relevant to LMICs on brain and nervous system disorders throughout life.
Chronic, NCDs & Disorders Across the Lifespan
Chronic, Noncommunicable Diseases and Disorders Research Training (NCD-Lifespan) supports collaborative research training between institutions in the U.S. and LMICs.
Global Noncommunicable Diseases and Injury Research
The Global Noncommunicable Diseases and Injury Research program aims to support innovative, collaborative biomedical or behavioral/social science research in the areas of NCDs and injury throughout life in LMICs.
DS-I Africa facilitates the development of a robust network of health-related data science partnerships across the African continent and in the U.S., including numerous national health ministries, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), corporations and other academic institutions.
This multi-agency program supports research on the ecological, evolutionary, organismal, and social drivers that infuence transmission dynamics for infectious diseases of concern in LMICs. Research focus is on the determinants and interactions of transmission among humans, non-human animals and/or plants.
This program supports the development of paired consortia, each led by a LMIC institution partnered with a U.S. institution, to plan research training and curriculum development activities that address and inform priority national and regional environmental and occupational health policy issues.
This program addresses research training needs related to infectious diseases that predominantly impact people living in developing countries. The focus is on a major endemic or life-threatening emerging infectious disease, neglected tropical disease, infections that frequently occur as a co-infection in HIV infected individuals, or infections associated with noncommunicable disease conditions of public health importance in LMICs.
The Health Professional Education Partnership Initiative (HEPI) and Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) complement and enhance the training of a workforce to meet the biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs in low-resource, high HIV-burden countries in Africa, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The African Association for Health Professions Education and Research program supports an interprofessional leadership and convening organization to network health professional educators and researchers across Africa to jointly develop, disseminate and/or share best practices, innovations, curricula and policy.
HIV Research Training
Fogarty's HIV Research Training program aims to strengthen human capacity to conduct research on evolving HIV-related epidemics in their countries.
Reducing Stigma to Improve HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment and Care in LMICs
Interventions for Stigma Reduction to Improve HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment and Care in Low- and Middle- Income Countries seeks to develop and test interventions to reduce the impact of HIV-associated stigma on the prevention and treatment of HIV infection and/or AIDS, and on the quality of life of People Living with HIV and/or AIDS.
HIV-associated NCD Research at LMIC Institutions
HIV-associated Noncommunicable Diseases Research at Low- and Middle-Income Country Institutions aims to build a network of researchers both within and across LMICs.
This program supports projects studying the development, validation, feasibility, and effectiveness of innovative mHealth interventions or tools suited to LMICs. Research focuses on the utility of new or emerging technology, platforms, systems, or analytics.
This program encourages trans-disciplinary research to address the international tobacco epidemic and to reduce the global burden of morbidity and mortality caused by tobacco use.
This program aims to strengthen injury and trauma research capacity at academic institutions in LMICs. Areas of study include but are not limited to: childhood injuries; intimate partner, domestic and gender-based violence; policy; prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of trauma and injury; and implementation science.
Career Development for Individuals
APTI, a postdoctoral training program for African citizens, is implemented by the African Academy of Sciences in partnership with NIH and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Fellows are trained and supported to become scientifc leaders who can advocate for increased research and innovation projects in Africa. Fellows begin the four-year program at an NIH intramural research laboratory where they train for two years before returning to their home institutions in Africa for another two years of research.
The Emerging Global Leader Award aims to provide research support and protected time to individual research scientists from LMICs who hold academic junior faculty positions or research scientist appointments at LMIC academic or research institutions.
FIMP helps current and former Fogarty trainees and regional investigators affliated with the International Epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA). IeDEA is an international research consortium, established in 2006 by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. IeDEA houses data on more than two million adults and 200,000 children and teens living with HIV.
Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowships in Public Health are offered through a partnership between the Fulbright Program and Fogarty. These awards aim to promote the expansion of research in public health and clinical research in resource-limited settings.
Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH) Research Training Program supports predoctoral, postdoctoral and pre-professional trainees from the U.S. and LMICs. Grantees receive one year of mentored global health research training at established biomedical and health research institutions and project sites in LMICs. The program operates through seven U.S. university consortia, which help provide supportive mentorship, research opportunities, and a collaborative research training environment for trainees.
An IRSDA provides support and protected time (three to five years) for an intensive, mentored research career development experience in an LMIC.
The JSPS program provides postdoctoral extramural fellowships that allow U.S. and permanent resident scientists to conduct cooperative research under host researchers in Japan. Similar intramural fellowships allow Japanese biomedical and behavioral scientists to conduct research at NIH.
KBSFP offers fellowship awards to support biomedical and behavioral research projects with potential commercialization by early-stage Korean postdoctoral researchers at NIH laboratories. The program is supported by the Korean Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology of the Korea Ministry of Science and ICT in cooperation with NIH.
Previous Programs
- AIDS International Training and Research (AITRP)
- American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA)
- Biodiversity (ICBG)
- Clinical, Operational and Health Services (ICOHRTA)
- Clinical, Operational and Health Services - AIDS/TB (IICOHRTA-AIDS/TB)
- Clinical, Operational and Health Services - Malaria
- eCapacity Research and Research Training
- Emerging Epidemic Virus Research Training for West African Countries with Widespread Transmission of Ebola (Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone)
- Environmental and Occupational Health (ITREOH)
- Framework Programs for Global Health
- Framework Programs for Global Health Innovation
- Framework Programs for Global Health Signature Innovations Initiative
- Genetics
- Independent Scientist in Global Health (ISGHA)
- Informatics (ITGH)
- International Research Collaboration (FIRCA)
- Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI)
- New Foreign Investigators (GRIP)
- NIH / PEPFAR Collaboration for Implementation Science Administrative Grant Supplements
- Scholars and Fellows (FICRS-F)
- Stigma
- Womens and Girls Health Administrative Grant Supplements