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2011 Photos
NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins and USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah said they are working to better connect NIH research discoveries with global health development. Shah delivered the 2010 David E. Barmes Global Health lecture. (Photo by Michael Spencer, NIH Medical Arts and Photography Branch)
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Speaking at an event hosted by Fogarty, Lord Nigel Crisp said that health professionals should look to low- and middle-income countries for low-cost innovations.
(Photo by Ernie Branson, NIH Medical Arts and Photography Branch)
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Fogarty worked with the Embassy of Chile in Washington to coordinate the loan of five tons of scientific and laboratory equipment from NIH to numerous Chilean university research laboratories and facilities severely damaged by the 2010 earthquake. The 84 pieces of equipment included computers, microscopes, micro-injectors, centrifuges, freezers and other items. (Photo by Dr. Jim Herrington, Fogarty International Center)
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Fiona Godlee, Editor in Chief of the British Medical Journal, presented a discussion of the stunning investigation she published that revealed the MMR vaccine scare was based not on bad science but on deliberate fraud.
(Photo by Jeff Gray, Fogarty International Center)
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Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass spoke at the first annual U.S.-Russia Scientific Forum. The event was held in Moscow to explore research collaborations in areas of common interest.
(Photo courtesy of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health)
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NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins discussed possible research partnerships with young scientists on a recent trip to India. Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass accompanied Dr. Collins on the trip, touring the country’s top research sites, reviewing existing collaborations and discussing potential new areas for partnership.
(Photo by Dr. Roger I. Glass, Fogarty International Center)
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2010 Photos
Dr. Hans Rosling of the Karolinska Institute drew a standing-room only crowd at his talk titled, "The New Health Gap: Science for Emerging Economies vs. the Bottom Billion."
(Photo by Ernie Branson)
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G8 representatives and leading African researchers met at NIH to discuss African research capacity. (Photo by Bill Branson)
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Fulbright logo courtesy of U.S. Department of State
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Longtime Fogarty grantee Dr. Jean 'Bill' Pape visited NIH to report his center's HIV/AIDS research has resumed, just months after
Haiti's devastating 2010 quake. (Photo by Bill Branson).
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NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins learns
about one participant's experience in Fogarty's Scholars and Fellows program.
(Photo courtesy of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health.)
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Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass greets Bill Gates, who was a keynote speaker at the 2010 mHealth summit.
(Photo Courtesy of Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.)
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2009 Photos
Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I.
Glass introduces NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins to longtime
Fogarty grantee Dr. Patricia Garcia, of Peru’s Cayetano Heredia
University at the first meeting of the Consortium of Universities
for Global Health. (Photo by Will Kirk, Johns Hopkins University)
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Boston University associate provost
and former Fogarty director, Dr. Gerald Keusch (center), catches
up with Fogarty staffers Dr. Ken Bridbord (left) and Dr. Flora
Katz (right) during the Consortium of Universities for Global
Health meeting at NIH. (Photo by Jeff Gray, Fogarty International
Center)
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U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was one of the keynote
speakers at the 2009 mHealth Summit, sponsored by the Foundation
for the National Institutes of Health and Microsoft Research.
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Health economist and Fogarty
Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, tells an overflow audience
at NIH, "We still have the need, we still have the opportunity" to
improve global health. "The question is whether we can get organized." (Photo
by Bill Branson, NIH Medical Arts and Photography Branch)
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NIH director Dr. Francis Collins
urges members of the new trans-NIH working group on global health
research to find better ways to leverage resources and coordinate
international activities to improve human health. (Photo by Michael
Spencer, NIH Medical Arts and Photography Branch)
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2008 Photos
Fogarty International Center
marked its 40th anniversary with a gala dinner at
the Italian Embassy in Washington on October 15, 2008. The event—sponsored
by the Foundation for NIH—brought together leaders from
Congress, federal agencies, the scientific community, advocacy
groups, the diplomatic corps, and business leaders to celebrate
Fogarty's 4 decades of contributions to global health. (From
left): Foundation for NIH Chairman Dr. Charles A. Sanders greeted
Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass and Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.).
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As part of Fogarty's 40th anniversary
celebrations, the Center co-sponsored a symposium titled "The
Role of Science in Advancing Global Health Diplomacy," held at
the Georgetown University Law Center on Nov. 12, 2008. Panelists
included (from left): Former U.S. Ambassador to Uganda Jimmy
Kolker; former NIH Director Dr. Elias Zerhouni, and Harvard School
of Public Health Professor Dr. Jim Kim. (Photo by Jeff Gray,
Fogarty International Center)
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Former NIH Director Dr. Harold
Varmus delivered the 2008 David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture
titled "The U.S. Commitment to Global Health." Fogarty co-sponsors
the annual event with the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial
Research in honor of the late David E. Barmes, who was a special
expert for international health at NIDCR. (Photo by Ernie Branson,
NIH Medical Arts and Photography Branch)
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2007 Photos
On October 22, 2007, NIH's Fogarty
International Center and National Library of Medicine co-sponsored
the launch of the Council of Science Editor's global theme issue
on poverty and human development. The event coincided with the
publication of related research by more than 230 journals worldwide.
Researchers gathered from around the world to present scientific
discoveries published as part of the theme issue.
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Fogarty Director Dr. Roger
I. Glass (center) accompanied U.S. Health and Human Services
Secretary Michael Leavitt (left) on a visit to Africa in August
2007. They met with local officials and observed U.S. government
programs that are delivering health care to underserved communities.
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