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John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences
FIC Advisory Board Meeting (Open Session)
June 7, 2022
Virtual Meeting
Agenda: Open Session
12:00-12:30 p.m.
Director’s Update and Discussion of Current and Planned FIC Activities
Dr. Roger Glass
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa)
NIH Common Fund Program Overview
Dr. Laura Povlich, Program Officer, Division of International Training and Research (DITR), FIC
DS-I Africa Coordinating Center and Open Data Science Platform Updates
Dr. Nicola Mulder, Professor and Head of Computational Biology Division, University of Cape Town
Dr. Michelle Skelton, H3Africa Project Manager, University of Cape Town
Dr. Ronald Galiwango, Bioinformatics Scientist, African Center of Excellence in bioinformatics and data intensive sciences, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University
Discussants
Dr. Bruce Tromberg, Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH
Dr. Patricia Brennan, Director, National Library of Medicine, NIH
2:00-2:30 p.m.
Select Fogarty Staff Activities
2:30–2:45 p.m.
Program Concepts, DITR
- Prevention and Treatment through a Comprehensive Care Continuum for HIV-affected Adolescents in Resource Constrained Settings (PATC3H) (NICHD), Dr. Geetha Bansal, Program Officer, DITR
2:45–3:00 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Dr. Roger Glass
3:00 p.m.
Adjourn
Updated June 2, 2022