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Cover of January February 2015 issue of Global Health Matters

Current Issue: January / February 2015

Inside this Issue
HHS Secretary says US plays key role in global health

NIH Ebola vaccine trial gets underway in Liberia

Medical Education Partnership Initiative aids Ebola response

Focus on nursing research:

Nursing research and training spur global health gains

Sari cloth can filter cholera from water, research shows

Lab-on-a-chip provides speedy disease diagnoses

Research aims to curb mental, emotional pain of HIV

Study finds mothers can help reduce daughters' risk of HIV infection in Jamaica

Role of nursing research in global health: Q and A with NINR Director Dr Patricia A Grady

Profile: Fogarty nursing fellow Faith Beulah oversees HIV trials in India

Measuring health impact of indoor air pollution is key

Injuries cause 5 million global deaths each year
Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass

Sub-Saharan Africa genomics study gives clues about disease

NIH, Brazil launch novel funding program

People in the news

Global health briefs

Recent Newsletters

January / February 2015

Also in This Issue:

HHS Secretary says US plays key role in global health

Sylvia Burwell, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, visited NIH to tour the Bethesda campus and participate in a town hall meeting with staff.
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HHS secretary Burwell walks in Clinical Center hallway with NIH Dir Collins NCI Dir Varmus and NIH Deputy Dir Tabak

Close up of health care worker wearing gloves giving patient a shot in the upper arm

NIH Ebola vaccine trial underway in Liberia

A large clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of two experimental vaccines to prevent Ebola virus infection has begun.
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Related news: Medical Education Partnership Initiative aids Ebola response

Injuries cause 5 million deaths each year

Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass discusses how NIH can help strengthen the capacity of low- and middle-income country institutions to study trauma and injury prevention and response.
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Three male emergency response workers in uniforms carefully roll wrapped, adult-sized body from brick pavement onto stretcher

Woman squats next to pot cooking over an open flame, thatched walls in background

Measuring health impact of indoor air pollution

Researchers hope to identify and establish a standard panel of indicators and biomarkers that can provide more precise evidence of the effectiveness of cleaner cookstoves.
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Nursing research and training spur global health gains

NIH's National Institute of Nursing Research supports critical investigations to advance disease prevention, patient self-management, end-of-life care, treatment innovations and nurse scientist training.
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Focus on nursing research:

Nurse in golves collects sample from patient in a lab setting

Woman dressed in sari stands on rock at edge of water, dips urn with sari cloth covering opening into water to filter it

Also in This Issue

E-news exclusives
International Research Ethics Education
JAMA, February 3, 2015

Request for Information (RFI): The Impact of Environmental Lead Exposure on Cognition and Bone Function (NOT-TW-15-002)
Responses accepted through June 30, 2015

Annual Photoshare Photo Contest
Cash prize awards to amateur and professional photographers to share their global public health and development photos for charitable and educational use. Entry deadline: February 28, 2015

Former NIAID Director [and Fogarty senior scientific advisor] Dr Richard Krause Dies at 90
NIAID news, January 9, 2015

NIH-supported tailor-made vaccine set to banish Africa's meningitis epidemics
Reuters, January 9, 2015

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