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Global Health Matters

July - August, 2007  |  Volume 6, Issue 4

Fogarty Plans Full Slate of Fall Activities

A full slate of fall activities is being planned by Fogarty, including a symposium on polio research, the simultaneous launch of more than 200 global health-themed science journals and a lecture by the World Health Organization director. In addition, Fogarty's director and staff will be participating in the Global Health Security Initiative summit of health ministers from the G8 countries, to be hosted on the NIH campus.

A range of scientific evidence will be presented at the symposium entitled, Polio Immunization: Moving Forward", to be held Sept. 19-20 in NIH's Natcher Auditorium. The discussion is expected to identify knowledge gaps, define a research agenda and inform public health policy. Fogarty is sponsoring the event in conjunction with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Fogarty's historic "Stone House" will be the site of several
events during the Health Security Initiative Ministerial
Summit.

Sessions will include an update on the present status and challenges of the eradication program, the performance of live and inactivated polio vaccines, risk and benefit assessments, as well as current and future research strategies. Registration information is available at: http://www.fic.nih.gov.

On Oct. 22, Fogarty will co-host a presentation featuring a number of papers included in the Council of Science Editors’ 2007 Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development. More than 200 journals around the world will simultaneously publish papers devoted to the topics.

Following a welcome by NIH Director Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni and opening remarks by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass, the Council’s president and editor of The Croatian Medical Journal, Dr. Ana Marusic, will provide an international perspective. The program will include the presentation of papers selected by an expert panel, moderated by Journal of the American Medical Association Editor in chief Dr. Catherine DeAngelis and British Medical Journal Editor in chief Dr. Fiona Godlee.

The event will be held in Masur Auditorium on the NIH campus and is open to the public. In addition to Fogarty and the Council, it is being sponsored by the National Library of Medicine.

On Dec. 10, WHO Director Dr. Margaret Chan will visit NIH to deliver the David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture. The event will be held in NIH’s Masur Auditorium and is open to the public.

The annual lecture series honors the late David E. Barmes, a long-standing World Health Organization employee and ardent spokesman for global health. The series is sponsored by Fogarty, in partnership with the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.

Finally, Fogarty’s director and staff will help NIH host the Global Health Security Initiative (GHSI) ministerial summit on Nov. 1-2. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt will welcome the other seven GHSI ministers to the NIH campus, along with the European Union Health Commissioner and the Director- General of the World Health Organization. This is the eighth such meeting and the first to be hosted by the U.S.

The summit will be preceded by three days of technical working group meetings, bilateral sessions, tours of local research facilities and consultations with U.S. scientists.

Formed after Sept. 11, 2001, the Global Health Security Initiative is an informal partnership that works to strengthen health preparedness and response globally to threats of biological, chemical, radio-nuclear terrorism and pandemic influenza.

More information is available at: www.ghsi.ca