September / October 2014 Global Health Matters e-newsletter

September / October 2014 Global Health Matters e-newsletter

September / October 2014 US-Africa summit encourages investments in health NIH speeds efforts to test vaccine against Ebola Pakistan builds trauma and injury research capacity Chronic diseases threaten progress against HIV/AIDS Also in This Issue: View more articles E-news exclusives Stay Connected with Fogarty Funding Opportunities: Upcoming Deadlines Upcoming Events

US-Africa summit encourages health investments NIH Director Francis Collins hosted a number of African leaders and delegations at the NIH campus before and after the first-ever US-Africa Leaders Summit. Read full article... Research is essential to improving health in Africa Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass NIH prepares for new MEPI research support NIH speeds efforts to test Ebola vaccine Initial human testing of an investigational vaccine to prevent Ebola virus disease began this month at NIH, led by NIAID scientists. Read full article... Related news: Ebola virus disease (EVD) information and resources Pakistan builds trauma and injury research capacity With Fogarty support, researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Aga Khan University and Khyber Medical University have helped transform research on emergency care, injury and trauma in Pakistan. Read full article... Related news: Researchers aim to cut child injury in Pakistani homes Chronic diseases threaten HIV/AIDS progress An international group of scientists has proposed an urgent research agenda to study HIV comorbidities in a special issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. Read full article...

Also in This Issue Fogarty funds cutting-edge biodiversity initiatives Fogarty launches new program to spur mobile health innovations Fogarty awards $17 million in new HIV research training grants Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Jennifer Tang researches women's health in Malawi Q and A with Dr Michael M Gottesman, NIH Deputy Director for Intramural Research People in the news Global health briefs E-news exclusives Ebola news and resources: Ebola virus disease (EVD) information and resources Fact Sheet: U.S. response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa White House news, September 16, 2014 Ebola then and now coauthored by Fogarty Senior Scientific Adviser Emeritus Dr. Joel Breman New England Journal of Medicine, Online First, September 10, 2014 Using genomics to follow the path of Ebola NIH Director's Blog, September 2, 2014 NIH to launch human safety study of Ebola vaccine candidate NIH news, August 28, 2014 New strategies in battle against antibiotic resistance NIH Director's Blog, September 18, 2014 Fogarty grantee news: UNC receives $1.5 million grant to strengthen HIV/AIDS research training in South Africa UNC news, September 18, 2014 Profile: Judy Wasserheit: positively global Chair, University of Washington's Department of Global Heath, a Fogarty grantee institution The Lancet, September 13, 2014 NCI grantee news: A potential breakthrough on liver cancer [second leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide] Tufts University news, September 5, 2014 NIH issues finalized policy on genomic data sharing NIH news, August 27, 2014 Non-invasive imaging shows earlier sign of cardiovascular disease in vessels of HIV patients NIDDK/NIH news, August 25, 2014 Wellcome Trust sets out long-term vision for research excellence in sub-Saharan Africa Wellcome Trust news, August 21, 2014 Fogarty ICBG grantee news: Marine protected areas might not be enough to help overfished reefs recover; Young corals, fish turned off by smell of damaged habitats Georgia Tech news, August 21, 2014 Related publication: Chemically mediated behavior of recruiting corals and fishes: A tipping point that may limit reef recovery Science, August 22, 2014 NIH awards two new grants to explore the understanding of genomics research in Africa NHGRI/NIH news, August 4, 2014 African medical education is being transformed by US program, journal articles report Fogarty news, July 30, 2014 Related Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) news: Africa, with U.S. help, graduates more doctors New York Times, August 11, 2014 Stay Connected with Fogarty  Fogarty on Facebook  Fogarty on Twitter  Fogarty News - Email notifications of breaking global health research news related to Fogarty, NIH, and other global health leaders. > Subscribe Now  Funding News - Email notifications of new and updated global health research funding opportunities from Fogarty, NIH and other global health leaders. > Subscribe Now

Funding Opportunities: Upcoming Deadlines Fulbright-Fogarty Fellows and Scholars in Public Health Application deadline for Fellowships: October 14, 2014 Hubs of Interdisciplinary Research and Training in Global Environmental and Occupational Health (GEOHealth) Application deadline for U01 and U2R: November 19, 2014 Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID), a joint NIH-NSF initiative Application deadline: November 19, 2014 Global Brain Disorders Research R01 and R21 AIDS and non-AIDS application deadline: January 5, 2015 Mobile Health: Technology and Outcomes in Low and Middle Income Countries (mHealth) Application deadline: February 19, 2015 International Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA) Application deadline: March 4, 2015 International Research Ethics Education and Curriculum Development Award (Bioethics) Application deadline: May 22, 2015 All Fogarty funding opportunities Subscribe to Fogarty funding opportunities email alerts

Upcoming Events October 8 - 12, 2014 IDWeekPhiladelphia, PA October 9, 2014 John F. Enders Lecture at IDWeek "Rotavirus Vaccines: New Insights from the Global Rollout" by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass Philadelphia, PA October 19 - 22, 2014 World Health SummitBerlin, Germany Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass will present at the conference. October 29 - 31, 2014 Wireless Health 2014 presented by the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance NIH Campus Bethesda, MD November 2 - 6, 2014 American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting New Orleans, LA November 13 - 15, 2014 GETHealth (Global Education and Technology Health) Summit Dublin, Ireland November 14 - 16, 2014 Africa and Middle East Congress on Addiction Rabat, Morocco November 15 - 19, 2014 American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting New Orleans, LA December 1 - 3, 2014 International Symposium on Minority Health and Health Disparities National Harbor, MD December 2 - 4, 2014 Association of Research Administrators in Africa (ARAA) annual meeting Kampala, Uganda December 5 - 7, 2014 Advancing Ethical Research Conference by Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) Baltimore, MD December 6 - 7, 2014 NIH mHealth Training Institute, a satellite meeting for the mHealth Summit National Harbor, MD December 7 - 11, 2014 mHealth Summit and the Global mHealth Forum at the mHealth Summit National Harbor, MD December 8 - 9, 2014 Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation Bethesda, MD February 23 - 26, 2015 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) Seattle, WA March 1 - 7, 2015 International Conference on Health Issues in Arab Communities Muscat, Oman March 26 - 28, 2015 Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Annual Meeting Boston, MA Submit abstracts by October 15, 2014 March 28 - 29, 2015 Global Health and Innovation Conference by Unite for Sight New Haven, CT Fogarty Calendar of Events