Global Health Research News - Fogarty International Center @ NIH

Global Health Research News - Fogarty International Center @ NIH

November 2018

• NIH statement on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2018
  NIAID/NIH news, November 30, 2018
• Meeting the challenge of engaging men in HIV prevention and treatment
  NIAID/NIH news, November 29, 2018
• Clinical trial of investigational Ebola treatments begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  NIAID/NIH news, November 27, 2018
• NIH, Fogarty receive funding increase for Fiscal Year 2019
• Fogarty awards $4.4 million to advance mobile health
• New data for 2017 from NIH and other partners now available in World Report
• Disease modelers mark Fogarty’s 50th anniversary
• Related publication: Fogarty International Center collaborative networks in infectious disease modeling: Lessons learnt in research and capacity building
  Epidemics via PubMed, October 23, 2018 (online)
• Focus on suicide: NIH-supported research targets global suicide burden
  • Research boosts mental health task-shifting, innovative approaches
  • Frugal innovation fights India’s high suicide burden
  • Global studies help bring down China’s suicide rate
• NIH weighs new opportunities in global health research
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
• Preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission in South Africa: Q and A with Dr Glenda Gray
• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Cameron Gaskill studies HIV referral patterns in Ghana
• US First Lady Melania Trump supports USAID programs in Africa
• People in the news - November 2018
• Global health briefs - November 2018
• Making the case for health research in humanitarian crises: a call for case examples  by Fogarty scientists
  Evidence Aid blog, November 20, 2018
• Supplement: Mentorship training and global health research [Open access] 
  The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, November 14, 2018 (online, ahead of print)
• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) announces the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2017 
  Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation news, November 8, 2018
• The Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 
  The Lancet, November 10, 2018
• Grantee news: Big boost for infectious diseases research
  University of the West Indies, State University of New York at Buffalo awarded US$1 million to train 15 young scientists 
  Jamaica Observer, November 7, 2018
• Grantee news: [GSU professor] receives diversity research supplement [to Fogarty tobacco grant] to study smoking cessation in China, Vietnam 
  Georgia State University news, November 6, 2018