September / October 2017 Global Health Matters Newsletter

Inside this Issue

• Grantees assess long-term benefits of Fogarty training during session at global AIDS meeting
• Q and A with former Fogarty trainee, Dr Linda-Gail Bekker, President of the International AIDS Society
• NIH-supported HIV research spawns new hope
• US Senate proposes $2M funding increase for Fogarty
• Fogarty funds additional grants to support research training in Ebola-affected countries
• How can we conduct research in humanitarian crises?
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Dorothy Dow studies suicide prevention in teens with HIV in Tanzania
• Focus: Preventing childhood obesity in Latin America
• Tech designed for Africa helps US fight disease, save money
• Fogarty awards $10.7M to build tobacco control and prevention research capacity in developing countries
• Bioinformatics programs in Africa receive $5M for research training from Fogarty
• HIV research training grantees receive supplements to focus on behavioral, social sciences
• Funding partners relaunch World Report
• Four new members join Fogarty advisory board
• Fogarty grantee icddr,b receives Hilton Humanitarian Prize
• People in the news
• Global health briefs

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