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Global Health Matters September/October 2025
Emergency Medicine & Trauma Care
Emergency medicine focuses on managing and evaluating critically ill and injured patients, while trauma surgeons provide care for patients who require immediate operations. Injuries rank as the greatest single cause of surgical disease globally, disproportionately affecting low and middle-income countries. Read about the researchers who are working to strengthen various aspects of emergency medicine and trauma care in Pakistan, Cameroon and Rwanda.
Lois Cohen, an abiding NIDCR star, shares memories of Fogarty
Lois Cohen, PhD, works in global public health at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). She helped establish the NIH David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture series, which is sponsored by both NIDCR and Fogarty.
Integrating HIV and chronic disease services for older patients
Jepchirchir Kiplagat, PhD, addresses unmet needs of older adults living with HIV in Kenya. Her Fogarty project investigated whether integrating hypertension and diabetes screening with HIV services would be feasible and acceptable to both providers and patients.
These UCLA surgeons are redefining global health
Catherine Juillard, MD, MPH, a trauma surgeon and critical care physician at UCLA first started looking into global health research while a surgery resident. Just as translating from French to English is effortless for Juillard, it’s also easy to translate much of her trauma research work from Cameroon to the U.S.
Q&A with Nídia Sequeira Trovão, PhD: Sharing knowledge to improve health worldwide
Nídia Sequeira Trovão, a molecular epidemiologist, leads Fogarty’s Genomic Epidemiology and Evolution of Pathogens (GEEP) section. Trovão is part of the Multinational Influenza Seasonal Mortality Study, a network of researchers that aims to build analytical capacity in genomic epidemiology research, while establishing long-term collaborations. She is an expert in phylodynamic modeling of pathogens, including rotavirus, HIV, and cholera.
Research in Karachi can help save lives across the globe
Junaid Razzak, MD, New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine, conducts a study funded by Fogarty that assesses whether using an mHealth app to strengthen the self-efficacy of ER personnel increases their willingness to respond to a public health emergency.
mHealth technology enhances the value of Rwanda’s prehospital emergency system
“In many parts of the world, there may be an investment made in hospitals or even in surgeons, but no investment has been made in the system that makes it all work,” says Dr. Sudha Jayaraman, a trauma and acute care surgeon conducting research in Kigali.
Fogarty’s Role in the “Make America Healthy Again” Agenda
Fogarty’s Director Dr. Peter Kilmarx says the global research collaborations of the Fogarty International Center and the National Institutes of Health offer a proven model for reducing chronic disease in children and improving health across the lifespan.
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Updated November 21, 2025
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