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Photos from the Fogarty International Center (FIC)
2013
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Fogarty's Scholars and Fellows Program
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins hears how Fogarty's Scholars and Fellows program encouraged participants to pursue global health research careers.
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Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI)
Electronic resources are integral to modern medical training. Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) funds are enhancing power supplies, wiring and equipment to improve Internet access.
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US-Africa Leaders Summit
NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci (right) discussed vaccine development and other ongoing infectious disease research with African leaders.
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US-Africa Leaders Summit
Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was one of several heads of state who visited NIH during the first-ever US-Africa Leaders Summit.
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US-Africa Leaders Summit
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins (far right), Fogarty Director Dr. Roger Glass (far left) and NHLBI Director Dr. Gary Gibbons (second left) welcomed Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete (center right) and his delegation to the NIH campus.
2012
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13th Annual David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture
Bill Gates, speaking at the 13th annual David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture in Dec. 2013, thanked NIH for partnering with his foundation on research.
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Counterfeit Detection Device
Fogarty and NIH collaborated with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in a public-private partnership to help identify counterfeit or substandard anti-malarial medicines with the deployment of the FDA-developed Counterfeit Detection Device, called CD-3. To verify the tool's use in a low-resource setting, researchers will conduct a pilot study in Ghana at sites established by U.S. Pharmacopeia, then will expand testing to other locations.
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Effort to Find New Vaccines
Global health philanthropist Bill Gates and NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins see synergies in their efforts to find new vaccines for HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases.
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Medical Education Partnership Initiative
Before (left) and after (right): Funding from the Medical Education Partnership Initiative, co-administered by Fogarty, has helped Africa's medical schools move from hard copies of textbooks, which are expensive and quickly out-of-date, to tablets that provide access to the latest information.
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NIH's World RePORT
Fogarty’s Division of International Relations provided key staff and support for NIH’s World RePORT, an illustrative mapping database system designed to facilitate communication and coordination of biomedical research funded by major government agencies and philanthropic organizations around the world.
