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Global Health Matters

July - August, 2007  |  Volume 6, Issue 4

Fogarty Grantees Named Ambassadors for Global Health Research

Fogarty grantees Dr. Gretchen Birbeck and Dr. Jane Menken have been named ambassadors to the Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research.

   Awardees Dr. Gretchen Birbeck and
   Dr. Jane Menken

The program, established in 2006 by Research!America, is named for the renowned health advocate and former Florida Congressman Paul G. Rogers.

The new ambassadors will work to build a national discussion about global health research and will stress the importance of effective collaboration among the nation’s government, industry, academic, patient advocacy and philanthropic research sectors.

Dr. Birbeck is director of the International Neurologic and Psychiatric Epidemiology Program at Michigan State University. She was the principal investigator of a Fogarty Stigma and Global Health Research grant that supported a study with colleagues at the University of Zambia to examine epilepsy and its social and economic consequences from the perspective of diverse groups.

Dr. Menken is the director of the Institute of Behavioral Science of the University of Colorado at Boulder. She was a Fogarty advisory board member and is a principal investigator for numerous NIH grants. She is an expert on developing countries, demographic change, reproductive health, child mortality and long-term effects of socioeconomic conditions early in life on the survival of women. The Paul G. Rogers Society is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.