Fogarty Global Health Fellows

UJMT Alumni Weiming Tang, Evelyn Hsieh, and Lily Gutnik pictured with so many accomplished global health experts who found their footing through the Fogarty Global Health Fellows and Scholars Program. Truly dedicated and visionary practitioners from across all disciplines. Here's to 20 more years!

Alumni at April events marking 20 years of Fogarty Fellows & Scholars described the impact mentors have had on their careers. Now many of them are paying it forward to the next generation: https://www.fic.nih.gov/News/Events/global-health-fellows-scholars-at-20/Pages/fogarty-global-health-fellows-scholars-at-20-paying-it-forward.aspx

We have lost a giant. RIP Dr. Farmer. You are gone too soon. Our hearts go out to family, friends, colleagues and to those who you mentored.

Paul Farmer was a giant of global health who changed the way healthcare was delivered through a focus on equity. He inspired us with his kindness, humility, humanity and wisdom. His legacy will be continued through the work of Partners In Health that he founded. We planted a tree at NIH to remember his friendship.

CUGH 2019 - Chicago, IL March 8-10, 2019
NIH Fogarty International Center, International Women's Day, Unc Malawi, VECD Fogarty Global Health Fellowship, NPGH Fogarty Global Health Fellows

Friday March 8th, the Fogarty Global Health Fellows and Scholars Program held it's annual alumni speakers panel at CUGH 2019 to showcase mentored training research and life-after-Fogarty success. Thank you to Dr. Roger Glass and the Fogarty International Center, the Consortia Principal Investigators and the amazing alum who presented this year: Drs. Leann Andrews, Lameck Chinula, Elena Cyrus, Paul Drain, Huan D**g, and Edith Kwobah.

CUGH 2019

A reminder all of our amazing scholars and affiliates to participate - Deadline is February 20, 2019

Participate in Our Crowdsourcing Contest! How has the UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellowship helped you grow as a person and a professional? Check out this short video to learn more about our crowdsou...

We invite alumni and friends of the UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellowship Program to participate in our inaugural contest for creative - interesting - inspiring media describing your experience related to the GLOBAL HEALTH training program. In its 7th year, our program now supports mentored research training opportunities at 28 academic sites in 15 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We're excited to work with SESH Global to offer our affiliates the chance to submit a worthy representation of what it means to be connected to the Fogarty International Center's Global Health Fellows and Scholars Program - Can't wait to hear from you! Submit by 2/20/2019

Learn more and enter: http://www.seshglobal.org/UJMT-Contest

Congratulations to Fogarty Global Health Fellows Racquel Kohler (2014), Lily Gutnik (2015), Julie Rivo (2017) and Melissa Amyx (2015) on two recent publications. Racquel and Lily collaborated on breast cancer in Malawi, and Julie and Melissa worked on an obstetric mode of delivery study in Argentina. Great to see trainees working across appointment years as a way of continuing the important research they do.

Experiences and perceptions regarding clinical breast exam screening by trained laywomen in Malawi
Racquel E Kohler, PhD, MSPH, Anna R Miller, MPH, Lily Gutnik, MD, MPH, Clara N Lee, MD, MPP, and Satish Gopal, MD, MPH
Published in Cancer Causes Control. 2017 Feb; 28(2): 137–143. PMCID: PMC5419072

Obstetrical providers’ preferred mode of delivery and attitude towards non-medically indicated caesarean sections: a cross-sectional study
Julie C Rivo, Melissa Amyx, Veronica Pingray, Roberto A. Casale, Angel E. Fiorillo, Hugo B. Krupitzki, Julio D. Malamud, Maria Mendilaharzu, Maria Lucia Medina, Gerardo Murga Tartalo, Alicia B. del Pino, Lucio Ribola, Javier A Schvartzman, Monica Trasmonte, Silvana Varela, Fernando Althabe, Jose Belizan, The Feasibility of 'Mode of Delivery Trial' Study Group. Published in BJOG online: 11 January 2018 DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.15122

Roger I. Glass, M.D., Ph.D., will receive the Geoffrey Beene Builders of Science Award, he is director of the Fogarty International Center and associate director for international research at the NIH:

Research!America to Honor Chair Emeritus The Honorable John Edward Porter and Other Medical and Health Research Advocacy Leaders Research!America’s 22nd annual Advocacy Awards will pay special tribute to The Honorable John Edward Porter, Research!America Chair Emeritus, for his decades-long commitment to advancing medical and health research. Porter served as U.S. Congressman from the 10th district in Illinois from 1980 to 20...

Congrats to Alumni, Pam Jagger, PhD for a recent NSF award to confront energy poverty in Southern Africa. Read about the $4.8M award: “Confronting Energy Poverty: Building an Interdisciplinary Evidence Base, Network and Capacity for Transformative Change.”http://global.unc.edu/news/unc-receives-4-8-million-grant-to-confront-energy-poverty-in-southern-africa/?platform=hootsuite

Congratulations to Brian Hall, PhD, 2013 -2014 UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellow.
He has been awarded the World Health Organization (WHO) APA-IUPsyS Global Mental Health Fellowship, which provides an opportunity for a psychologist to contribute to the work of WHO, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse for one year. He will remain based at the University of Macau in China during this fellowship year, traveling to Geneva and fieldwork settings regionally and globally. Nice work!

Congratulations to Alex Kayongo, MBChB. He is a 2016-2017 UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellow from Uganda, and has recently received a 2 year, $130k award from GlaxoSmithKline to fund an Open Lab project titled: "Investigating the role of altered lung microbiome in the pathogenesis of HIV-associated Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in a Ugandan cohort". Way to go, Alex!

Check out the latest FIC Profile:
Fogarty Fellow Dr. Lily Gutnik boosts breast cancer screening in Malawi https://tinyurl.com/ybndtg4v

Lily participated in the UJMT FGHF Program in 2014-2015. Thank you, Lily, for your continued work in global health.

UPDATE: Applications for 2018-2019 are now due on November 1, 2017

The UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellowship supports mentored research training opportunities for promising postdoctoral fellows and doctoral students. Sponsored by the Fogarty International Center – as well as other institutes, centers and offices at the NIH – our program provides stipend, research, and travel for 12-month research attachments. Trainees live and work full-time at affiliated research sites in 13 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America,
http://globalhealth.unc.edu/ujmt-fogarty-global-health-fellowship/program-description/

Program Description - Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases Program overview In 2012, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Johns Hopkins University, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Tulane University have been funded by the Fogarty International Center to launch the UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellows Program. This consortium … Read More