Upcoming
Conferences/Meetings/Workshops
March 17 – FIC hosts “A
Middle Eastern Roundtable Discussion on Women and
Science,” as part of series honoring Women’s History Month.
Lawton Chiles International House (Stone House) on
the NIH campus.
April 22-23
– The 5th
Global Forum on Bioethics in Research will take place
in Paris, hosted by INSERM.
The topics will center on intellectual property issues
in health research. A tentative agenda has been constructed, including case
studies of genetic databases, uses of medicinal plants from
indigenous communities, and community representation in
research and IP activities, and benefit sharing. Sponsors of
the meeting include NIH (FIC and NIEHS), CDC, The UK MRC, The Wellcome Trust, and The Rockefeller
Foundation.
April
27. FIC, ORWH and CIHR convene science funding agencies,
including partners across NIH, to consider Gender, Sex, and
Global Health. To
be scheduled in spring – “Science at NIH – a Day for the
Diplomatic Corps.”
Recent Lectures
Sixth and Final FIC 35th Anniversary
Global Health Lecture
Dr. Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb
Professor of Anthropology, Harvard
University, Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor
of Psychiatry, Harvard
University will give a lecture on "The Global Epidemic
of Mental Health Problems in Developing Countries:
Depression, Suicide, and Violence on Monday September 22 @
3:00 p.m. in Masur Auditorium, NIH (Building 10).
Fifth FIC 35th Anniversary Global Health
Lecture
Dr. Gail Cassell, Vice President, Scientific Affairs
and Distinguished Lilly Research
Scholar for Infectious Diseases, Eli Lilly and Company will
give a Lecture on "Global
Health Inequities and the Critical Role of Public/Private
Partnerships: Challenges and
Opportunities in the Next Decade" on Thursday, June 12
at 3:00 p.m. in Masur Auditorium,
NIH (Building 10).
Fourth FIC 35th Anniversary Global Health
Lecture
Sir David Weatherall, FRS, Regius Professor of
Medicine and Director Weatherall Institute
of Molecular Medicine, Emeritus, University of Oxford will
give a Lecture in the NHGRI
Symposium, "From Double Helix to Human Sequence -- and
beyond" on Tuesday, April 15
at 4:30 p.m., Building 45, Natcher Conference Center, NIH
(Building 10).
Third FIC 35th Anniversary Global
Health Lecture
Dr. Alan Lopez will give a lecture entitled
"Global Health Priorities: Diseases, Injuries and Risk
Factors" on Tuesday, April 8 @ 3:00 p.m. in Masur
Auditorium, NIH (Building 10).
Second
Fogarty International Center 35th Anniversary Global Health
Lecture
Dr. D.A. Henderson gave a lecture entitled “Dreams and Realities in
Disease Eradication,” on
Tuesday, January 28 at 3:00 p.m. in Masur Auditorium,
Building 10. This lecture is the second in
the FIC 35th Anniversary Lecture Series. Dr. Henderson
is Distinguished Service Professor at
Johns Hopkins University and Director of Research and
Development for the Office of Public Health
Emergency Preparedness.
First
Fogarty
International Center Thirty-fifth Anniversary Global Health
Lecture
Dr. Nevin Scrimshaw, institute professor emeritus at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and senior advisor for
the food and nutrition programme at the United Nations
University, delivered the second annual David Barmes
Global Health lecture on Monday, October 28 at 3:30 p.m. in
Masur Auditorium, Building 10.
The
Third MIM Pan-African Conference on Malaria, November 17-22,
2002
The Multilateral Initiative on Malaria
(MIM) will hold the Third MIM Pan-African Conference on Malaria in Arusha, Tanzania in November
2002. The conference
will focus on scientific progress and
potential in malaria research
with the aim of promoting the exchange of scientific ideas
within Africa. The
conference will have specific sessions to discuss mechanisms
for linking scientific research and malaria control
activities. Conference organizers are the National Institute
for Medical Research (Tanzania) and the MIM Secretariat,
Fogarty International Center (USA) in collaboration with
other agencies worldwide.
NIH
News Release: October
15, 2002
Pan-African Malaria Conference November 17-22 in Arusha,
Tanzania: Global Advances in Malaria Research:
Evidence-Based Decision-Making for Malaria Control and
Policy
Recent Conferences/Meetings/Workshops
Grantsmanship
Workshop for Latin American and Caribbean Scientists
Cuernavaca, Mexico - July 1-3, 2003
Stigma and Global Health: Developing
a Research Agenda, September 5-7, 2001 Visit www.stigmaconference.nih.gov
for continuing updates about stigma and global health
research.
Upcoming
FIC Advisory Board Meetings
For
other upcoming NIH events, please visit the NIH
Calendar of Events.
