September 10, 2008 – The Fogarty International Center, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), today announced it will award $4.6 million over three years to expand its network of global-health education programs to include 12 additional campuses in the United States, the People's Republic of China and México. The Framework Programs for Global Health aim to raise awareness of global health within the academic community, and to support the development of new curricula and degree programs that cut across departments and schools to create a pipeline for the next generation of global-health researchers.
Each site will receive approximately $400,000 over three years through a flexible program, which encourages each institution to develop a structure and activities that best suit its existing strengths and research capabilities. The new awardees will join the existing network of 19 sites that have received HHS/NIH Framework grants since the program's inception in 2005. Within these institutions, faculty from more than 17 different disciplines have participated, including those from schools of medicine, public health, anthropology, law, engineering, environmental sciences, journalism, business and others.
Two foreign projects are receiving Framework awards. With its grant, Mexico's National Institute of Public Health -- together with eight academic partners in North and South America -- will form a global-health training consortium for the region, focused on topics of critical importance, such as infectious diseases, tobacco and nutrition. Since the People's Republic of China faces significant reproductive health issues, Fudan University in Shanghai will create a teaching network to address the country's persistently high rates of maternal and child mortality, reproductive-tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases.
In the United States, the universities that have won HHS/NIH Framework awards in 2008 are the following:
Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island; Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina; Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois; The Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio; Oregon Health and Science University, in Portland, Oregon; Tulane University, in New Orleans, Louisiana; The University of California, San Francisco; The University of Pittsburgh; and The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas.
In addition to Fogarty, the HHS/NIH partners that are financing the Framework awards in Fiscal Year 2008 include the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
For more information, on the Framework Program, visit: Global Framework Program.
For more information on the HHS/NIH Fogarty International Center, visit: Fogarty International Center.
For more information about HHS/NIH and its programs, visit: National Institutes of Health.
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