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Current U.S. Student

United States citizens who are currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate degree programs are eligible to apply.If you are currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program at a U.S. college or university, you will apply through that institution, even if you are not currently a resident there. Find the Fulbright Program Adviser on your campus.

U.S. Citizen but not a Student

If you are a U.S. citizen, will hold a bachelor’s degree by the award start date, and do not have a Ph.D. degree, then you are eligible to apply. Non-enrolled applicants should have relatively limited professional experience in the fields (typically 7 years or less) in which they are applying. Candidates with more experience should consider applying for the Fulbright Scholar Program.

The Getting Started page will provide information on eligibility and next steps.

Artist

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program welcomes applications in the creative and performing arts. Arts candidates for the U.S. Student Program should have relatively limited professional experience in the fields (typically 7 years or less) in which they are applying. Artists with more experience should consider applying for the Fulbright Scholar Program.

Creative & Performing Arts projects fall under the Study/Research grant category and are available in all countries where Study/Research grants are offered.

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U.S. Professor/Administrator

If you are a U.S. citizen and a professor or administrator at a U.S. institution and are interested in applying for a Fulbright Scholar Award, you will need to apply through fulbrightscholars.org.

To support your students in applying for a U.S. Student Program award, please connect with the Fulbright Program Adviser at your institution.

Non U.S. Citizens

If you are a non-U.S. citizen interested in applying for a Fulbright Award to the United States, you will need to apply through the Fulbright Commission or U.S. Embassy in your home country. Find out more information on the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program or Fulbright Foreign Student Program.

 

Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowships in Public Health

 

The Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowships in Public Health are offered through a partnership between the Fulbright Program and the Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. These awards were established to promote the expansion of research in public health and clinical research in resource-limited settings. The Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowships were inaugurated in July 2011 with four fellows in Sub-Saharan Africa (Botswana, Malawi, and South Africa).

Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowships carry the same benefits as the traditional Fulbright Study/Research grants to the host country. The Fogarty International Center, NIH, will provide support to the research training site and may provide orientation for the fellows at the NIH.

By the start of the program year (July 2024), fellows must be an MD (and other professional degrees) student who has completed their 3rd year or a Ph.D. candidate who has completed their Master’s level requirements (i.e., post-qualifying exam). The basic requirements and process for applying for the Fulbright-Fogarty Program are the same as for any Fulbright U.S. Student Study/Research Grant.

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Notes for Fulbright-Fogarty Candidates:
  • Review the Country Summary for details on country specific eligibility requirements and research placements. Degree requirements, research focus, and affiliation vary by country.
  • Select one country to which to apply.
  • In the Preliminary Question: Award Type and Program Information: Award Name and General Category questions of the online application, select Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowships in Public Health.
  • Submitting an affiliation letter is highly recommended. Applicants should consult with the Principal Investigator(s) at the site and for the project in which they have interest.

Statement of Grant Purpose

The following are guidelines for what Fulbright-Fogarty candidates should address in their Statements of Grant Purpose:

  • Why the applicant has chosen the particular country and project
  • How the candidate will be able to contribute to the Fogarty project
  • What specific qualifications, training, and/or experiences that the candidate has related to this project
  • How the applicant will benefit from the assignment and make of the experience upon returning to the United States.
  • Since this is a Fulbright grant, the candidates should describe how she/he will engage with the local community.
 

Eligible Countries

For the 2024-2025 academic year, Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowship placements will be available in the countries listed below:

 

Maternal Health/Child Health/Neonatal Health:

Ethiopia / HBNU / Addis Continental Institute of Public Health

U.S. Partner: Harvard University

Areas of Focus:

  • Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
  • Adolescent Health
  • Infectious Disease 

Site Contacts: Site Director: Yemane Berhane, Director, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, ACIPH ( yemaneberhane@addiscontinental.edu.et).

Summary:

In collaboration with Fogarty International Center, the consortium of Harvard University, Boston University, Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico (HBNU) is seeking to host a Fulbright – Fogarty fellow at the consortium’s site in Ethiopia: Addis Continental Institute of Public Health (ACIPH).

Addis Continental Institute of Public Health is an independent center of excellence for public health research and training. Established in 2006, ACIPH is an accredited higher learning institute and provides technical services and training in major health issues in Africa. The Institute has highly qualified core technical experts and a number of associate consultants in the various fields of health and social sciences. The Institute has over 80 full time technical and administrative staff, and over 100 trained field research workers. The data management unit is also staffed with well trained and experienced individuals. ACIPH supports the attainment of healthier lives for Africans by establishing and maintaining centers of excellence for health training and strategic health information to enhance the quality of health services and promote evidence based public health practices. In addition to providing short term training, assisting with generating strategic information through research, monitoring and evaluation, and establishing routine database systems, ACIPH provides consultancy services in the areas of public health training, research and services to Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health and to other global health organizations. Institute investigators and students focus their research efforts on major public health problems such as reproductive health, child health, nutrition and food security, non-communicable diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, as well as other emerging and re-emerging public health challenges. Investigators provide training and technical assistance in methodological issues such as data management, analysis and report writing in both quantitative and qualitative research approaches. 

ACIPH’s main objectives are: 

  • Conduct training programs to enhance performance in health services and program management.
  • Support evidence-based practice by conducting research and monitoring and evaluation activities.
  • Provide technical support for organizations and/or individuals engaged in collecting, analyzing, and dissemination of health and population data/information.
  • Develop and undertake training programs to support human resource development in the continent.
  • ACIPH is located in the convenient area of Addis Ababa in Yeka sub-city. The office is equipped with computers and printers, photocopy machines, communication services including high-speed broadband and Wi-Fi internet, telephone and fax machines, data and documentation center, and transportation vehicles. The Institute building was constructed in 2012 and stands five stories high. The Institute has highly qualified core technical experts and some associate consultants in the various fields of health and social sciences. The Institute has over 45 full time technical and administrative staff, and over 80 trained field research workers.

ACIPH works closely with Addis Ababa University (AAU) School of Public Health. AAU was established in 1964 with the purpose of training medial students with up-to-date public health knowledge and skills to prevent and control communicable diseases that contribute to the high morbidity and mortality of the Ethiopian people.

 Ghana / GloCal / University of Ghana (UG)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal) 

Areas of Focus:

  • infectious and non-communicable diseases
  • mental health
  • climate change
  • maternal and child health/nutrition
  • nutrition and child development
  • blood safety and availability

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

For nearly 30 years, the University of Ghana has collaborated with UC Davis in research and capacity building: many key studies in maternal and child nutrition have been completed or are underway in Ghana, and several Ghanaians have received their Ph.D. from UC Davis and have returned to UG or continued to work in the international arena. UCSF has also recently started some collaborative projects in Ghana on person-centered maternity care and COVID-19 effects on health care workers.

UG faculty's research areas include infectious and non-communicable diseases, mental health, climate change, maternal and child health and nutrition, nutrition and child development, and blood safety and availability. Elements that make UG a strong partner include:

  • Office of Research, Innovation and Development (ORID) which promotes, coordinates, and facilitates research activities, as well as manages external research funds.
  • International Programs Office (IPO) coordinates and promotes relations with international students and scholars. It has a variety of services, including assistance with accommodation, immigration issues, and local culture.

UG also collaborates with several other research institutions, such as the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research; Centre for Tropical, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics; the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens; the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement; and the West African Genetic Medicine Centre (WAGMC).

 Ghana / HBNU / University of Ghana

U.S. Partner: Harvard University and University of New Mexico.

Areas of Focus:

  • Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
  • Adolescent Health
  • Infectious Disease

Site Contacts: Gordon Awandare, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Ghana (gawandare@ug.edu.gh)

Summary:

In collaboration with Fogarty International Center, the consortium of Harvard University, Boston University, Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico (HBNU) is seeking to host a Fulbright – Fogarty fellow at the consortium’s site in Ghana: University of Ghana. 

The University of Ghana (UG) was founded as the University College of the Gold Coast by Ordinance on August 11, 1948 for the purpose of providing and promoting university education, learning and research. The vision of the university is to become a world class research-intensive university with the mission of creating an enabling environment that makes University of Ghana increasingly relevant to national and global development through cutting-edge research as well as high quality teaching and learning.

UG is administered through a central administration which includes a collegiate system comprising the following colleges and a School of Graduate Studies:

  • College of Basic and Applied Sciences
  • College of Education
  • College of Health Sciences
  • College of Humanities

The University has several research institutions and centres for learning and research, within the colleges. Those that involved in health-related research include:

College of Basic and Applied Sciences

  • West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP)
  • Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies
  • Biotechnology Research Centre
  • Center for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies(C3SS)

College of Health Sciences

  • Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research
  • Centre for Tropical, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • West African Genetic Medicine Centre (WAGMC)

College of Humanities

  • Regional Institute for Population Studies
  • Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research
  • Centre for Urban Management Studies
  • Centre for Ageing Studies

Additionally, to promote, coordinate, and facilitate research activities within the university, the Office of Research, Innovation and Development (ORID) was established in 2010. ORID provides research administration and grant management services to researchers. It has the specific responsibility of developing and implementing the University’s research policy, ensuring effective distribution and efficient use of research funds and representing the interests of the University in contractual relationships, grant applications and reporting administering contract research.

 Ghana / NPGH / Suntresu Government Hospital, Ghana Health Service 

U.S. Partner: University of Michigan

Areas of Focus:

  • Understanding late identification of neonatal jaundice
  • Epidemiology and surveillance of neonatal birth asphyxia
  • Identifying maternal and neonatal near-misses
  • Community-based knowledge and attitudes toward newborn mortality

Site Contacts: 

Summary:

While child mortality (deaths under age 5) have dropped significantly in recent years, neonatal mortality (deaths within the first 28 days after birth) remains a challenge in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Neonatal deaths make up nearly half of all under 5 childhood mortality, and deaths within the first 7 days of life make up half of all neonatal deaths. Thus, the first few days after delivery are critical to improving neonatal outcomes. This long-standing collaboration takes place at a medium-sized government hospital that refers to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.

 Ghana / NPGH / Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

U.S. Partner: University of Michigan

Areas of Focus:

  • Non-communicable diseases during pregnancy
  • Sickle-cell in pregnancy
  • Gestational diabetes

Site Contacts:

Summary:

Maternal mortality and morbidity remain enormous challenges in much of sub-Saharan Africa. As maternal mortality slowly declines, measuring maternal morbidity is becoming an increasingly important metric for not only overall maternal health but also healthcare quality. This long-term collaboration involves partners at the University of Michigan and at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana, and has addressed many facets of pregnancy, labor and delivery, and the early post-partum period. 

 Ghana / UJMT / Noguchi Memorial Institute

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • Vector-borne diseases, including malaria, lymphatic filariasis, guinea worm, and avian influenza
  • CDs, including diabetes mellitus and CVD
  • Micronutrients
  • Infant and maternal mortality
  • Sickle cell disease
  • Allergies and environmental pollution
  • HIV/AIDS and TB

Site Contacts: Michael Wilson – MWilson@noguchi.ug.edu.gh

Summary:

The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), established in 1979 as a semi-autonomous institute of the University of Ghana, is the country’s leading biomedical research facility. The Institute spearheads biomedical research in Ghana on diseases of public health importance in the country and the African region. NMIMR focuses primarily on research into infectious diseases, including malaria, soil transmitted helminthiasis and schistosomiasis, filariasis lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, buruli ulcer, poliomyelitis, sexually transmitted infections, viral hemorrhagic fevers, diarrheal diseases, and vaccine-preventable diseases.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ghanian based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Vector-borne diseases, including malaria, lymphatic filariasis, guinea worm, and avian influenza
  • NCDs, including diabetes mellitus and CVD
  • Micronutrients
  • Infant and maternal mortality
  • Sickle cell disease
  • Allergies and environmental pollution
  • HIV/AIDS and TB
 Malawi / INSIGHT / Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation – Malawi (Baylor Foundation Malawi)

U.S. Partner: Baylor College of Medicine

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV  
  • TB  
  • Cancer  
  • Maternal Health  

Site Contacts:

Summary:

The Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation – Malawi (Baylor Foundation Malawi) has worked in partnership with the Malawi Government in the Health Sector since 2005. We have three main areas of focus: service delivery, training and research, in that order of priority. Our original mission was to improve the health and lives of HIV-infected children and families through high quality, high impact, ethical, state-of-the-art comprehensive care and treatment, training of health professionals and clinical research.   

Baylor Foundation Malawi has now been operating in Malawi for nearly fifteen years and have broadened our mission to include maternal health care services, mainly at Ethel Mutharika Maternity Wing at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) and Area 25 Health Centre, pediatric oncology at KCH, pediatric emergency medicine at KCH and pediatric surgical and anaesthesia services at KCH. Through its main outreach arm, the Tingathe Program, Baylor Foundation Malawi assists the Ministry of Health in improving prevention of mother-to-child transmission, early infant diagnosis, and pediatric HIV care and treatment services through onsite mentorship teams in various districts of the country, but currently is working in six districts in Central and South Eastern Malawi: Salima, Lilongwe, Balaka, Mangochi, Machinga, and Phalombe.

 Malawi / UJMT / UNC Project - Malawi

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV/AIDS including prevention, treatment, opportunistic infections and co-morbidities
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Surgery, trauma, injury prevention
  • Maternal and child health
  • Mental health
  • Cancer (breast, cervical, esophageal, Burkitt’s lymphoma, etc.)
  • Transfusion Medicine and Blood Donation Practices
  • Implementation research

Site Contacts: 

Summary:

UNC has been conducting HIV/STD research in Malawi since 1990 and officially established UNC Project-Malawi in 1999. UNC Project Malawi is a partnership with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) that broadly focuses on issues of importance to Malawians, namely reproductive health, HIV and STIs, oncology, trauma, burns, malaria, and TB clinical care, training, and research opportunities.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Malawi based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects:

  • HIV/AIDS including prevention, treatment, opportunistic infections and co-morbidities
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Surgery, trauma, injury prevention
  • Maternal and child health
  • Mental health
  • Cancer (breast, cervical, esophageal, Burkitt’s lymphoma, etc.)
  • Transfusion Medicine and Blood Donation Practices
  • Implementation research
 Malawi / UJMT / JHU – Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS)

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus: 

  • Child health
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Noncommunicable diseases
  • Women’s health

Site Contacts: Sufia Dadabhai - sufia@jhu.edu

Summary: 

The JHU research and training collaboration started in 1989 and since then, research and training activities have steadily increased with substantial achievements in infrastructure development.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Malawi based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Child health 
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Noncommunicable diseases
  • Women’s health
 Nepal / UJMT / Tribhuvan University

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  •  
  • Respiratory health
  • Pneumonia
  • Vaccine development and testing
  • Pediatrics
  • The Brick Kiln project: The active Brick Kiln project aims to characterize the effects of brick kiln pollution, a neglected but serious environmental and occupational risk factor, on lung function and respiratory symptoms in brick kiln workers and family members in Bhaktapur, Nepal. We are also conducting lung imaging to identify radiographic abnormalities, and immunophenotyping to examine the immune system response. We are measuring personal exposures to brick kiln dust and smoke, ambient and household air pollutants, and tobacco smoke, and will be estimating biologically-relevant lifetime exposures.  

Site Contacts: 

Summary:

Tribhuvan University (TU), established in 1959, is the first national institution of higher education in Nepal. The university governs five institutes: Institute of Medicine (IOM), Institute of Engineering (IOE), Institute of Science and Technology, Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, and Institute of Forestry. The IOM was established in 1972 to train and develop all levels of health manpower in the field of country. Since the initial phase of training of Health Assistants and Auxiliary Nurse Midwifes, the institute has grown over the years to become a pioneer and trendsetter in medical education in the country.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Nepal based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Respiratory health
  • Pneumonia
  • Vaccine development and testing
  • Pediatrics
  • The Brick Kiln project: The active Brick Kiln project aims to characterize the effects of brick kiln pollution, a neglected but serious environmental and occupational risk factor, on lung function and respiratory symptoms in brick kiln workers and family members in Bhaktapur, Nepal. We are also conducting lung imaging to identify radiographic abnormalities, and immunophenotyping to examine the immune system response. We are measuring personal exposures to brick kiln dust and smoke, ambient and household air pollutants, and tobacco smoke, and will be estimating biologically-relevant lifetime exposures.  
 Peru / GloCal / Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal)

Areas of Focus:

  • Emerging, infectious, tropical, and non-communicable diseases
  • Maternal and child health
  • sexual and reproductive health
  • mental health
  • substance abuse 
  • climate change 
  • one health

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu 

Summary:

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) is the premier biomedical sciences university and research center in Peru and a recognized leader in Latin America, leading all but one of the 28 currently active NIH grants in Peru according to the NIH Reporter. UPCH world-class global health research generates unique mentored research training opportunities for prospective fellows on emerging, infectious, tropical and non-communicable diseases, maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health, mental health, substance use/abuse, climate change and one health.

UPCH has had decades of productive research collaborations with multiple UC campuses such as with UCLA/UCSF on HIV/AIDS/STDs (Coates, Kegeles, Clark & Konda), malaria with UCSD (Winzeler & Vinetz) and One Health and emerging diseases with UC Davis (Foley), among many others. NIH research grants support most of this work, and efforts are complemented with multiple D43 training grants on both non-communicable and HIV/non-HIV infectious diseases, and also fellowship grants.

UPCH has field, clinical, laboratory, computational and animal experimentation facilities spread across Peru’s mega-diverse ecological regions: the Amazon Basin, highlands up to 22,000 feet and 2400 kilometers of Pacific coast. Additional world-class resources and assets are brought by a broad network of Peruvian and foreign partners including among many others the US Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6), Asociación Civil Vía Libre and Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía.

UPCH fellows can attend on-site or virtual coursework on research methods, biostatistics, epidemiology, bioethics and responsible conduct of research, in addition to Epidemiology master’s and doctorates, programs mostly developed by a longstanding NIH D43 training grant. Highly-capable institutional and GloCal-dedicated research administration teams support our activities. All research follows rigorous, Peruvian Ministry of Health-approved COVID-19 biosafety protocols.

 Peru / HBNU / Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia  

U.S. Partner: Boston University and Northwestern University

Areas of Focus:

  • Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
  • Adolescent Health
  • Infectious Disease 
  • Mental Health 
  • Non-communicable Diseases

Site Contacts: Site Director: Patricia Garcia, Professor, School of Public Health, Cayetano Heredia University - pattyg@uw.edu

Summary:

In collaboration with Fogarty International Center, the consortium of Harvard University, Boston University, Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico (HBNU) is seeking to host a Fulbright – Fogarty fellow at the consortium’s site in Peru: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH).

Cayetano Heredia University located in Lima, Peru is considered one of the top medical schools in Peru and is one of the major producers and publishers of scientific research in the country. Founded in 1961 by a group of professors and students from the medical school of the four-century-old National University of San Marcos in Lima, Cayetano Heredia University has established numerous agreements and collaborative arrangements with leading institutions from all over the world.

 Peru / UJMT / A.B. PRISMA

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus: 

  • Infant malnutrition
  • Household air pollution
  • Maternal and neonatal health
  • Climate change
  • ID epidemiology

Site Contacts: Marilu Chiang – mchiang@prisma.org.pe

Summary:

Asociación Benéfica PRISMA (AB PRISMA) is a Peruvian non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to improving the quality of life of Peruvian families in extreme poverty. AB PRISMA is the largest independent NGO in Peru and the fourth largest NGO in Peru overall. PRISMA seeks to support sustainable human and economic development through projects in health, reproductive health, nutrition, and agriculture, as well as projects that improve incomes and provide access to economic opportunities. Since it was founded in 1986, PRISMA has carried out health, family planning, and nutrition programs throughout Peru with both the public and private sectors. PRISMA has always placed an important emphasis on research and operational research. PRISMA has very close collaborative relationships for research relating to specific research projects with the Cayetano Heredia Medical School, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, and the US Naval Medical Research Detachment (NAMRU-6). 

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Peru based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Infant malnutrition
  • Household air pollution
  • Maternal and neonatal health
  • Climate change
  • ID epidemiology
 Peru / UJMT / Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) 

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • Tuberculosis research                                                     
  • Health effects of ambient air pollution
  • Maternal and neonatal health
  • Chronic diseases                                                         
  • Climate change

Site Contacts: Anders (Willy) Lescano – willy.lescano@upch.pe

Summary:

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) is the leading health sciences university in Peru and higher education institution in the training of professionals in the health, life and education sciences. For nearly 60 years, its graduates have contributed to the social and economic development of the country from various professional fields. UPCH is nationally and regionally renowned for excellence in research and training in the health field. Research Units and Laboratories within UPCH include the High Altitude Research Institute, the Tropical Medicine Institute “Alexander von Humboldt”, the Gerontology Institute, the Centers for Research and Development in Mental Health; Maternal and Child Health; Sexuality, AIDS and Society; Integral and Sustainable Development; Global Health; Environmental Sustainability; and the Latin American Center of Excellence in Climate Change and Health (Clima).

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Peru based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Modeling the effects of ambient air pollution on cardiovascular and pulmonary health outcomes in Lima, Peru
  • Addressing gaps and challenges in the management of hypertension in Puno, Peru
  • Evaluating the effects of household air pollution exposures on health outcomes across the lifespan
  • Addressing gaps in geographical and resource availability for the management of chronic diseases in Peru
  • Novel diagnostics of pediatric tuberculosis in Lima, Peru
  • Genomic research of adult tuberculosis to identify resistance in Lima, Peru
  • Epidemiology of norovirus and other diarrheal illness in Lima, Peru
  • Research in animal models of cysticercosis
  • Research in animal models for Chagas cardiomyopathy
  • Research into diagnostics and clinical outcomes of toxoplasmosis in patients with HIV in Lima and Iquitos, Peru
  • The HAPIN follow up trial in Puno, Peru, will evaluate the long-term effects of an 18-month clean fuel intervention on linear growth, lung function and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children. We will measure clinical outcomes, kitchen concentrations and personal exposures to PM2.5 once yearly and monitor all cooking stoves (LPG and biomass) continuously throughout the study period. We will examine whether health outcomes of intervention participants differ to those from control households through the child’s seventh birthday and conduct exposure-response analyses based on the stove use and PM2.5 exposure data during the intervention and subsequent follow-up period. As a secondary objective, we will also evaluate the effect of the intervention on participants’ cooking behaviors post-trial and identify factors that influence sustained LPG use. 
  • The ANDES randomized control trial will measure the effectiveness of having home-based community health workers lead interventions to reduce blood pressure and improve diabetes control in patients from under-resourced communities in Puno, Peru. The community health workers (CHWs) will act as a liaison between the public health system and community members to facilitate implementation and sustainability of this strategy. 
  • In partnership with Emory University and Johns Hopkins University, UPCH is conducting a Regional GEOHealth Hub study in Lima, Peru. This research is designed to enhance capacity to carry out research and provide data useful to policy makers on the association between Ambient Air Pollution (AAP) and cardiovascular, respiratory, and neurodegenerative health outcomes, including COVID-19 (incidence, mortality, and case-fatality) and Alzheimer’s where the association with AAP is not well established. We will study the association of traffic and air pollution in Lima and evaluate possible different mitigation strategies to reduce air pollution and related respiratory diseases. We also plan to develop a national model for PM2.5 for Peru as a whole, with a 5 km2 resolution, and a corresponding data base of hospital data and emergency room visits for all the major cities of the country. 
  • Another NIH- funded research study in Puno, Peru is focused on sleep disorders in residents of highland population. This project aims to evaluate the prevalence and severity of sleep disordered breathing at high altitude, and the exposure risk factors associated with cardiometabolic complications including diabetes and cardiovascular disease. This will be achieved through elucidating the associations between nocturnal hypoxemic severity and profiles with interstitial glucose concentrations; and by determining the impact of nocturnal supplemental oxygen on glucose profiles in a randomized crossover trial.
 Uganda / ACHIEVE / Makerere University Department of Psychology

U.S. Partner: Washington University in St. Louis 

Areas of Focus:

  • Family and child health, maternal and reproductive health 
  • Gender-based violence 
  • Communicable and non-communicable disease epidemiology 
  • Environmental health, community engagement 
  • HIV prevention, care, and treatment

Site Contacts:

Summary:

The Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MaKCHS) is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Africa.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ugandan mentors to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Family and child health, maternal and reproductive health 
  • Gender-based violence 
  • Communicable and non-communicable disease epidemiology 
  • Environmental health, community engagement 
  • HIV prevention, care, and treatment
 Uganda / GloCal / Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal)

Areas of Focus:

Some of the important projects that could be leveraged for training future GloCal fellows include:

  • A Multisectoral Strategy to Address Persistent Drivers of the HIV Epidemic in East Africa.
  • Program for Resistance, Immunology, Surveillance, and Modeling of Malaria in Uganda.
  • Optimal chemo-preventive regimens to prevent malaria and improve birth outcomes in Uganda.
  • Integrated HIV/HTN, (Leveraging the HIV platform for hypertension control in Uganda).
  • Programs studying immune responses to malaria infection, antimalarial drug resistance and treatment efficacy, antiretroviral therapy initiation, HIV-associated pneumonia, and TB.

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

The Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC) is a not-for-profit organization, established in 2008 by Ugandan health scientists from Makerere University and the Ministry of Health (MoH) to conduct research in infectious diseases. IDRC has active memoranda of understanding with Makerere University, MoH and UCSF to conduct research in infectious diseases, including malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis. The mission of IDRC is to conduct high-quality research in infectious and other diseases of public health importance through collaboration and partnerships. Specific objectives including: I) To build capacity through training, technology advancement and improvement of local health service infrastructure; II) To conduct research in infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other diseases of public importance; III) To disseminate results of research and promote an evidence-based approach to policy making by linking researchers and policy makers; IV) To support the efforts of the Uganda Ministry of Health, Mulago Hospital and other health institutions in Uganda in prevention, care and treatment of infectious diseases.

The collaboration includes over thirty faculty at MU and UCSF, with a budget of $10 million and over 50 publications annually. Some of the important projects that could be leveraged for training future GloCal fellows include:

  • A Multisectoral Strategy to Address Persistent Drivers of the HIV Epidemic in East Africa.
  • Program for Resistance, Immunology, Surveillance, and Modeling of Malaria in Uganda.
  • Optimal chemo-preventive regimens to prevent malaria and improve birth outcomes in Uganda.
  • Integrated HIV/HTN, (Leveraging the HIV platform for hypertension control in Uganda).
  • Programs studying immune responses to malaria infection, antimalarial drug resistance and treatment efficacy, antiretroviral therapy initiation, HIV-associated pneumonia, and TB.

FIC, GloCal, K43 and G11 funded programs have trained and built capacity of over 80 Ugandan junior scientists and administrators. IDRC has facilities and resources with over 20 administrators to support trainees. The facilities include office space at its headquarters and research sites in Tororo, Mbale and Mbarara; a reference malaria laboratory; a research infrastructure for clinical, translational, and molecular research; and modern data management centers in Kampala and Tororo.

 Uganda / INSIGHT / Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST)

U.S. Partner: Integrated Network of Scholars in Global Health Research Training (INSIGHT), University of Alabama at Birmingham

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV care
  • HIV prevention
  • Reproductive health
  • health sciences education
  • human medicine
  • nursing
  • medical laboratory sciences
  • pharmacy
  • pharmaceutical sciences
  • physiotherapy
  • interdisciplinary healthcare delivery through community-based education, research, and service (COBERS)

Site Contacts:

Summary:

Mbarara University of Science & Technology (commonly known as MUST), a public university in Uganda commenced student intake and instruction in 1989 and is one of the ten public universities and degree-awarding institutions in the country. MUST is accredited by the National Council for Higher Education in Uganda and has acclaimed national and international recognition for best practices in outreach and community relations from Association of Commonwealth Universities, European Union and the Civil Society of Uganda. The Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital (MRRH) is the sole teaching hospital for the MUST Medical School and is the referral hospital for the Western Region of Uganda. The 320 bed referral hospital provides outpatient and inpatient clinical care, training, and research infrastructure in southwestern Uganda - a region 36,870 square kilometers in size with a population of over 5 million representing about 18% of the national population. MRRH houses the Immune Suppression Syndrome Clinic (ISS Clinic), a PEPFAR-funded clinical site, which serves as the hospital’s HIV outpatient clinic.

MUST Faculty is dedicated to training a diverse group of future leaders in academic health professions and clinical practice who will combine clinical medicine with the discovery of new knowledge through research.  MUST has an Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Laboratory providing diagnostic microbiology services for improved patient care. With the recent addition of upgraded workstations, storage units, air conditioning, a bio-safety cabinet, a laboratory refrigerator, an incubator 405L, a bacticinerator, turbidity meter, and a magnetic stirrer, the lab is classified as a Bio-safety Level II. The MUST Research Laboratory is a certified Clinical and Research Laboratory which implements Good Clinical Practice protocols for the processing, storage and testing of laboratory specimens for the adjacent MRRH hospital. The laboratory also houses a Beckman Coulter AU480 chemistry analyzer, Thermo Fischer Scientific Applied Biosystems Viia7 Real-time PCR assay, laminar flow biosafety hoods, three centrifuges, and an additional bank of freezers with backup generator power source. With a modern laboratory of this nature both MRRH and MUST serve students, researchers and patients in the entire western Uganda region. 

The MUST Global Health Research Collaboration has worked for over 16 years to develop partnerships with Massachusetts General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, UAB, University of Minnesota, Lund University, and many others.  These partnerships have helped the MUST Research Collaboration to grow extensive research infrastructure in Mbarara. 

The Collaboration occupies fully equipped and independent research space adjacent to MUST and MRRH for conduct of clinical research. Collaboration facilities include enrollment and interview rooms, an independent phlebotomy and specimen collection room, staff offices, and meeting space as well as 24-hour internet access (with 4G modem data management packages), remote library access, and remote study database access for data entry, quality assurance, and analysis. 

 Uganda / INSIGHT / Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation-Uganda (Baylor-Uganda)

U.S. Partner: Baylor College of Medicine  

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV
  • TB
  • Orphans and Vulnerable Children services  
  • Clinical trials and implementation research 
  • Global Health Security 
  • Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Newborn Child and Adolescent health 

Site Contacts:

Summary:

Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation-Uganda (Baylor-Uganda) is a not-for-profit organization established in 2006. The organization is a leading provider of integrated high quality and high impact HIV, TB, Maternal and Child Health services, health professional training, and research in Uganda. Baylor-Uganda has grown its portfolio from managing only 3 grants (< 1 million USD) in 2006 to over 34 grants worth about 40 million USD. Other program areas include Global Health security, nutrition, and social support to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). The research directorate conducts clinical trials (industry including vaccines), implementation research, and cohort studies. 

Baylor Uganda is headquartered at Mulago Hospital where it runs a Pediatric and Adolescent family-centered HIIV/AIDS/TB Clinic with close to 8500 clients. Under comprehensive HIV programs, Baylor-Uganda supports the Ministry of Health, 3 Regional Referral Hospitals, and 47 District Local Governments through a health system strengthening approach to include combination prevention strategies (PreP, VMMC), HIV testing services, MNCH, HIV care & treatment. In 2022, the organization’s programs supported over 420 health facilities reaching 217,000 clients on ART in the Kampala, Fort Portal, Hoima, and Mbale regions – as a result, we reached 961000 persons with HIV testing services, 406000 pregnant women with PMTCT services, 25000 OVC, 17000 TB patients and 38500 KPs.

The Baylor Uganda call center (National Pediatric, and Adolescent HIV/AIDS/TB Call center [NAPAC]) provides consultative technical support services to health workers across the country and the communities in pediatrics and adolescent HIV/AIDS/TB management and HIV self-testing. The call center also provides counseling services support to study participants. 

The Global Health Security (GHS) program works collaboratively with the Ministry of Health to promote its mandate in policy formulation and oversight role for combating epidemics in Uganda. The program has been very instrumental in the detection, prevention, and control of the COVID-19 and Ebola epidemics in Uganda. 

 Uganda / NPGH / Makerere University (Kampala) Mbarara University of Science and Technology (Mbarara)/Global Health Uganda

U.S. Partner: University of Minnesota

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV and Cryptococcal Meningitis
  • Epidemiology and surveillance systems for infectious disease and zoonotic infection
  • Mobile health interventions (women’s health and HIV)
  • Immunology
  • Neuropsychology
  • Nutrition (primarily pediatric) and infectious disease
  • Vaccine research 

Site Contacts: Dr. Shailey Prasad - pras0054@umn.edu

Summary: 

The University of Minnesota has a long-standing research relationship with multiple colleges at Makerere University (Infectious Disease Institute, College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, and the College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources, and Biosecurity) starting in 2005 and with Mbarara University starting in 2010 regarding neuro-infectious disease research. The University of Minnesota has enabled training for 7 PhDs and 13 master’s Ugandan trainees through nested projects of NIH-sponsored clinical research. Since 2012, 20 Fogarty Scholars and Fellows have been trained in this capacity through 1-year global health fellowships (1 at MUST, 19 at Makerere). Additionally, three Ugandan principal investigators have obtained independent NIH funding. 

The University of Minnesota has strong resources to support research fellows through an extensive network of researchers at all three institutions committed to advancing research training.

 Uganda / UJMT / Makerere University

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • Cancer
  • Child health
  • Communicable diseases (both non-HIV and HIV/AIDS)
  • Noncommunicable diseases 
  • Neurologic disorders
  • Trauma and injury
  • Women’s health
  • Pulmonary health

Site Contacts:

Summary:

The Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS) is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Africa, with over 40,000 students. It is the leading institution for medical instruction and research in the East, Central and Southern Africa (excluding South Africa). MakCHS has a strong track record of successful collaborative research with local, American and European universities and institutions and has participated in many of the early trials of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria interventions in the region.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Uganda based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Cancer
  • Child health
  • Communicable diseases (both non-HIV and HIV/AIDS)
  • Noncommunicable diseases 
  • Neurologic disorders
  • Trauma and injury
  • Women’s health
  • Pulmonary health
 Uganda / UJMT / MU-JHU Care

U.S. Partner: Johns Hopkins University

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV/AIDS
  • Prevention of maternal to child transmission of HIV

Site Contacts:

Summary:

MU-JHU CARE Ltd (also known as ‘Makerere U.-Johns Hopkins U. Research Collaboration’) was first established in 1988 as a collaboration between investigators in the Departments of Obstetrics/ Gynaecology and Paediatrics at Makerere Univeristy School of Medicine and U.S. HIV Investigators. The MU-JHU Research Collaboration became incorporated as a not- for- profit local Uganda entity in 2006. For over 30 years, MU-JHU has been a leading research institution in Uganda with a sustained focus on HIV and women/maternal and pediatric health. 

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Uganda based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • HIV/AIDS
  • Prevention of maternal to child transmission of HIV
 
 

HIV/AIDS & Related Research

Ghana / GHES / Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), University of Ghana

U.S. Partner: Global Health Equity Scholars (Yale University)

Areas of Focus:

  • Emerging infectious diseases
  • Neglected tropical diseases
  • Opportunistic infections
  • HIV

Site Contacts: 

Summary:

The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), established in 1979 as a semi-autonomous institute of the University of Ghana, is the country’s leading biomedical research facility. It is committed to high-quality, cutting-edge research on national health priorities and training biomedical scientists and health researchers.

The Institute’s research portfolio is wide and varied, and it includes malaria, soil-transmitted helminthiasis and schistosomiasis, filariasis (lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis), diarrheal diseases, Buruli ulcer, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, poliomyelitis, sexually transmitted infections, micronutrients, infant and maternal mortality, viral hemorrhagic fevers, EPI Diseases, hemoglobinopathies (sickle cell disease etc.), plant medicine, drug discovery and environmental pollution. Examples of current and reserach projects include:         

  • Clinical outcomes and adverse effects of Dolutegravir based treatment regimens for persons living with HIV.
  • Disclosure of HIV status to children and adolescents (Sankofa 2 study).
  • Correlation between intracellular levels of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and suppression of HIV 1 and Hepatitis B infections.                                                                                                                                                                   

 Other features of this site include:

  • The Parasitology Department within NMIMR: PCR and DNA sequencing, parasitological analyses of urine, stool and blood (including clinical chemistry), laboratory cultures of Plasmodium falciparum 3D7 strain and Leishmania species, fully equipped entomology laboratory and insectaries.
  • Through collaboration with the Ghana Health Service, NMIMR maintains 10 active field research stations throughout the country. The technical staff have extensive experience conducting field studies on malaria, leishmania and helminth infections.
  • The Institute houses the administrative buildings for the West African Centre for International Parasite Control (WACIPAC), the Lymphatic Filariasis Support Centre for Africa (LFSCA), and a Health Support Centre for HIV/AIDS counselling and training.
  • Active collaborative research and training experiences through a variety of international partners, including GYPGH, University of Michigan, University of Denmark among others.
  • GYPGH has sponsored 25 students, faculty and staff from Ghana to spend up to two months at Yale, where they participate in the annual Summer Research Institute and receive intensive mentorship at various Yale labs.
 Ghana / UJMT / Noguchi Memorial Institute

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • Vector-borne diseases, including malaria, lymphatic filariasis, guinea worm, and avian influenza
  • CDs, including diabetes mellitus and CVD
  • Micronutrients
  • Infant and maternal mortality
  • Sickle cell disease
  • Allergies and environmental pollution
  • HIV/AIDS and TB

Site Contacts: Michael Wilson – MWilson@noguchi.ug.edu.gh

Summary:

The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), established in 1979 as a semi-autonomous institute of the University of Ghana, is the country’s leading biomedical research facility. The Institute spearheads biomedical research in Ghana on diseases of public health importance in the country and the African region. NMIMR focuses primarily on research into infectious diseases, including malaria, soil transmitted helminthiasis and schistosomiasis, filariasis lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, buruli ulcer, poliomyelitis, sexually transmitted infections, viral hemorrhagic fevers, diarrheal diseases, and vaccine-preventable diseases.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ghanian based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Vector-borne diseases, including malaria, lymphatic filariasis, guinea worm, and avian influenza
  • NCDs, including diabetes mellitus and CVD
  • Micronutrients
  • Infant and maternal mortality
  • Sickle cell disease
  • Allergies and environmental pollution
  • HIV/AIDS and TB
 Ghana / UJMT / University of Ghana

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV
  • Cancer
  • Malaria

Site Contacts: Anthony Andrew Adjei – aaadjei@ug.edu.gh 

Summary:

The University of Ghana Medical School within the College of Health Sciences trains an array of health professionals. All the institutions of the College undertake their clinical training and research in the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. Historically the hospital, established in 1923, was meant primarily for malaria treatment and management. It gained teaching hospital status in 1962, when the University of Ghana Medical School was established for the training of medical doctors. As the leading tertiary health facility in Ghana, the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has a long-standing history of teaching and medical research.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ghanian based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • HIV
  • Cancer
  • Malaria
 Malawi / GloCal / Partners in Hope (PIH)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal) 

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV Testing 
  • HIV Treatment services

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

Partners in Hope (PIH) is a Malawian, non-governmental organization dedicated to tackling barriers to health care in resource-limited communities in Malawi, with a focus on HIV testing and treatment services. Since PIH’s founding in 2001, the Ministry of Health has continued to award PIH with certificates of excellence for HIV and ART services. The organization has a longstanding relationship as a PEPFAR implementing partner (since 2009), providing HIV care and treatment programs in 101 health facilities throughout 8 of Malawi’s 28 districts. PIH works across programs, policy, science, clinical education, and health service delivery.                  

PIH has a private medical center where patients with any condition are seen, and a PEPFAR-funded free clinic (Moyo) with more than 5,000 patients currently on ART. PIH’s ability to provide both basic and advanced HIV care, as well as its designation as a PEPFAR Care and Treatment partner, places the organization in a unique position to work fluidly across clinical and laboratory services, government systems, and private and public sectors – all of which facilitate  implementation of high-quality public health initiatives.

PIH has a longstanding relationship with the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, with over 10 years of collaboration across implementation science, clinical care, and medical education. The PIH-UCLA partnership has mobilized a multi-disciplinary and multi-national group of researchers to respond to priority questions that directly impact the quality and accessibility of HIV services. The team focuses on the intersection between: HIV and gender (i.e., how to engage men in care); HIV and other diseases (non-communicable diseases and cervical cancer screening and treatment); and HIV and quality improvement (i.e., addressing provider burnout and improving implementation of viral load programs).

Over the past five years, PIH has published more than 25 articles in top peer-reviewed journals and presented over 35 abstracts at regional and international conferences. The team also organizes a monthly brown bag series and other informal activities to encourage exchange among researchers and medical professionals. The PIH-UCLA partnership provides outstanding mentorship from Malawian and UCLA researchers, and an excellent opportunity for GloCal fellows to pursue mentored research in the areas of HIV and it’s various intersections.

 Malawi / INSIGHT / Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation – Malawi (Baylor Foundation Malawi)

U.S. Partner: Baylor College of Medicine

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV  
  • TB  
  • Cancer  
  • Maternal Health  

Site Contacts:

Summary:

The Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation – Malawi (Baylor Foundation Malawi) has worked in partnership with the Malawi Government in the Health Sector since 2005. We have three main areas of focus: service delivery, training and research, in that order of priority. Our original mission was to improve the health and lives of HIV-infected children and families through high quality, high impact, ethical, state-of-the-art comprehensive care and treatment, training of health professionals and clinical research.   

Baylor Foundation Malawi has now been operating in Malawi for nearly fifteen years and have broadened our mission to include maternal health care services, mainly at Ethel Mutharika Maternity Wing at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) and Area 25 Health Centre, pediatric oncology at KCH, pediatric emergency medicine at KCH and pediatric surgical and anaesthesia services at KCH. Through its main outreach arm, the Tingathe Program, Baylor Foundation Malawi assists the Ministry of Health in improving prevention of mother-to-child transmission, early infant diagnosis, and pediatric HIV care and treatment services through onsite mentorship teams in various districts of the country, but currently is working in six districts in Central and South Eastern Malawi: Salima, Lilongwe, Balaka, Mangochi, Machinga, and Phalombe.

 Malawi / UJMT / UNC Project - Malawi

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV/AIDS including prevention, treatment, opportunistic infections and co-morbidities
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Surgery, trauma, injury prevention
  • Maternal and child health
  • Mental health
  • Cancer (breast, cervical, esophageal, Burkitt’s lymphoma, etc.)
  • Transfusion Medicine and Blood Donation Practices
  • Implementation research

Site Contacts: 

Summary:

UNC has been conducting HIV/STD research in Malawi since 1990 and officially established UNC Project-Malawi in 1999. UNC Project Malawi is a partnership with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) that broadly focuses on issues of importance to Malawians, namely reproductive health, HIV and STIs, oncology, trauma, burns, malaria, and TB clinical care, training, and research opportunities.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Malawi based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects:

  • HIV/AIDS including prevention, treatment, opportunistic infections and co-morbidities
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Surgery, trauma, injury prevention
  • Maternal and child health
  • Mental health
  • Cancer (breast, cervical, esophageal, Burkitt’s lymphoma, etc.)
  • Transfusion Medicine and Blood Donation Practices
  • Implementation research
 Malawi / UJMT / JHU – Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS)

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus: 

  • Child health
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Noncommunicable diseases
  • Women’s health

Site Contacts: Sufia Dadabhai - sufia@jhu.edu

Summary: 

The JHU research and training collaboration started in 1989 and since then, research and training activities have steadily increased with substantial achievements in infrastructure development.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Malawi based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Child health 
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Noncommunicable diseases
  • Women’s health
 Peru / GHES / Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH)

U.S. Partner: Global Health Equity Scholars (Yale University)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV and aging
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • Musculoskeletal health
  • Osteoporosis
  • Sarcopenia
  • Parasitic diseases
  • Malaria
  • Leptospirosis
  • Immunology, molecular biology

Site Contacts: 

  • Evelyn Hsieh, MD, PhDc, U.S. Mentor (SPH), Associate Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology); Chief of Rheumatology, VA Connecticut Healthcare System; Program Director, CMB Global Health Leadership Development Program; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health, Yale University - evelyn.hsieh@yale.edu
  • Joseph Vinetz, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FASTMH, BS, U.S. Mentor (LID), Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Anthropology, and Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health, Yale University - joseph.vinetz@yale.edu

Summary:

Peru is a country of enormous geographic, cultural, and biologic diversity. Located in the capital city of Lima, the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) is the leading biomedical teaching and research institution in the country. Since its foundation, UPCH´s scientific contributions have significantly influenced national public health policies and promoted development and innovation in Peru. Opportunities are available to work at the UPCH School of Public Health and Administration (SPHA) or the Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollos (LID). 

The School of Public Health and Administration (FASPA, acronym in Spanish), founded in 1998, is the only School of Public Health in Peru. Its mission is to generate, apply and disseminate knowledge relevant to health promotion, disease prevention and treatment in human populations. FASPA is committed to improving health management, health policies and health economics and considers research to be a key strategy to design effective policy and intervention programs. The SPHA mentor, Dr. Garcia, has served as Dean of FASPA, Director of the Instituto Nacional de Salud (Peruvian National Institute of Health), and most recently as the Minister of Health of Peru. The U.S. mentor affiliated with SPHA, Dr. Hsieh, is an Associate Professor at the Yale School of Medicine (Rheumatology) and School of Public Health (Chronic Disease Epidemiology). Her recent work focuses on prevention of osteoporosis and fractures in countries undergoing economic transition, and the intersection between HIV and non-communicable disease. Drs. Hsieh and Dr. Garcia have collaborated on epidemiological, prevention and health services research projects related to women’s health topics including sexually transmitted infections, osteoporosis, and aging-related comorbidities among Peruvian women with HIV (osteoporosis, fractures, and sarcopenia). This site strives to expand knowledge in these key areas of health, which are understudied in Peru and across much of Latin America. Current or recent projects include:

  • Musculoskeletal Outcomes among Women Aging with HIV in Peru
  • Health-Related Quality of Life among Women Aging with HIV and Peru
  • Capacity building for NCD care for the HIV positive population of Peru: a national assessment of knowledge and resources among HIV providers
  • Expanding the toolbox for prevention of sarcopenia and osteoporosis among Peruvian People with HIV: A validation study

The Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollos (LID) contributes to the scientific and technological progress of Peru through its state-of-the-art facilities that support cutting edge research and innovation. The U.S. mentor affiliated with LID, Dr. Vinetz, has worked in Peru since 1998, studying leptospirosis and malaria. Dr. Vinetz maintains a laboratory on the UPCH Faculty of Sciences campus and a fully functioning field laboratory. Dr. Gamboa leads the Malaria Research Group at LID-UPCH. This group has three independent laboratories that are the most modern facilities of their kind in Peru (outside of government). Facilities at LID include laboratories for molecular/cellular biology, bioinformatics and immunology. The Malaria Research Group also has laboratory facilities in Iquitos, which houses an insectary specialized in rearing mosquito species involved in malaria transmission. Drs. Vinetz and Gamboa have been collaborators for over 14 years. Together, they manage the Amazonian International Center of Excellence in Malaria Research (ICEMR), which focuses on utilizing a comprehensive approach to understanding the biological features of Amazonian malaria towards the ultimate goal of regional control and elimination of Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax.

Current research projects and focus areas include:

  • Amazonian Center of Excellence in Malaria Research (Amazonia ICEMR): The goal of this project is to continue supporting the Amazonia ICEMR in its effort to discover underlying principles and develop new tools to go beyond conventional malaria control activities towards regional malaria elimination.
  • Translational Research Development for Endemic Infectious Diseases of Amazonia: The goal of this project is to continue supporting the Global Infectious Disease Training program at UPCH, which aims to enhance tropical infectious disease research capacity in Peru by focusing on research disciplines and diseases relevant to the Amazon region of Peru.
  • Immunology of asympomatic malaria and the immunity effects in plasmodium transmission
  • Study of the fundamental biology of malaria resilience in the Amazon - characterize human populations of malaria transmission reservoirs (epidemiology), study the molecular ecology and transmission biology of human-Anopheles interactions, and investigate molecular and cellular mechanisms of non-sterilizing clinical immunity to malaria caused by P. vivax and P. falciparum.
  • Leptospira and Leptospirosis – collaboration of multidisciplinary studies of Leptospira and leptospirosis, focused on clinical field studies of acute undifferentiated febrile illness to characterize epidemiological and clinical features of leptospirosis and ultimately deploy new novel molecular and point-of-care diagnostic tests.
 Peru / NPGH / Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas, Hospital Nacional Dos de Mayo, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana and nongovernmental organizations InterACTION Labs, IMPACTA and Selva Amazonica (The University of Washington-Peru collaborative)

U.S. Partner: Northern Pacific Global Health Consortium (NPGH), University of Washington 

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV 
  • Zoonotic Infections
  • TB

Site Contacts: Roopa Sriram - ghfmgr@uw.edu

Summary:

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Peruvian mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  1. Claverito Project (InterACTION Labs): A multidisciplinary effort to improve living standards in a “floating community” along the Amazon River in Iquitos. This project encompasses activities addressing improvements to the built environment, water and sanitation systems, improving general and oral health, enhancing health education, OneHealth and improving the environment.
  2. Tuberculous meningitis: A study to define the outcomes and improve diagnosis of TB meningitis in patients with and without HIV co-infection. 
  3. Cerebrovascular Diseases in Peru: A project to define the risk factors for stroke in various geographic regions of Peru and to work with the Peruvian national stroke group and government to increase prevention activities for susceptible populations. 
  4. Implementation Science in AIDS and TB:  A collaboration between UW, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, the NGO IMPACTA, and the Peruvian national HIV and TB control programs to enhance capacity to address the public health and scientific challenges of the evolving HIV and TB epidemic in Peru through clinical, implementation science, and health services research.
  5. “One World One Health” Zoonotic Infections Projects: A project based largely in the Amazon, activities include field research in leptospirosis, dengue, and plague – including a strong emphasis on working with the community to decrease risks for reducing risk for acquiring zoonotic infections, as well as capacity development of local diagnostic capacity in Iquitos, Peru.
  6. National scale-up of diagnostic and treatment services: cross-regional implementation study examining factors facilitating and hindering the expansion of rapid TB, syphilis and HIV testing and treatment in regions outside the capitol.
  7. Health financing models: comparison of vertical/targeted (i.e. funding earmarked for HIV, TB) and horizontal/systems-strengthening funding strategies on health care coverage and outcomes, including health equity gaps.
  8. Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics: working with multidisciplinary teams to assess the operating parameters and feasibility of introducing POCs for detection of infectious diseases or health conditions to different segments of the Peruvian populations.
  9. Emergency medicine: a variety of projects examining patient outcomes, patient flow, systems evaluation and epidemiology of common emergent diseases and conditions in a 2,000 bed tertiary care academic training hospital in Lima with a 110 bed emergency room.  Research projects could incude: nosocomial infections, management of sepsis or pneumonia, and implementation science related to emergency room operations.
 Uganda / ACHIEVE / Makerere University Department of Psychology

U.S. Partner: Washington University in St. Louis 

Areas of Focus:

  • Family and child health, maternal and reproductive health 
  • Gender-based violence 
  • Communicable and non-communicable disease epidemiology 
  • Environmental health, community engagement 
  • HIV prevention, care, and treatment

Site Contacts:

Summary:

The Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MaKCHS) is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Africa.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ugandan mentors to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Family and child health, maternal and reproductive health 
  • Gender-based violence 
  • Communicable and non-communicable disease epidemiology 
  • Environmental health, community engagement 
  • HIV prevention, care, and treatment
 Uganda / ACHIEVE / MildMay Uganda

U.S. Partner: Washington University in St. Louis 

Areas of Focus:

  •  
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH
  • HIV Prevention, Care & treatment
  • Key populations
  • Infectious Diseases.
  • Non-Communicable Diseases.
  • Biomedical Research.
  • Dementia and Mental Health among others

Site Contacts:

Summary:

MildMay Uganda is a national Non-Government Organization established in Uganda in 1998 as a Centre of Excellence for provision of comprehensive HIV&AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and training services. Overtime, Mildmay Uganda has evolved and diversified its services specializing in delivery of comprehensive healthcare including Treatment Services; Health Systems Strengthening; Other Complementary Social Services; Health Training and Education; and Research.

Mildmay Research Centre Uganda (MRCU) is a subsidiary of Mildmay Uganda (MUg). MUg is a national indigenous, faith-based organization registered under Uganda’s law with the national NGO Registration Board as a non-government organization (NGO) with affiliates in the UK and Kenya. SINCE 1998, MUg has been modelling quality and sustainable prevention, care and treatment of HIV and other health priorities, using a family-centered approach together with training, education and research in Uganda. MUg pioneered specialist paediatric HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa and is one of the two paediatric palliative care Beacon Centres in Africa. For over 21 years now, MUg has been, and is a key player in the HIV epidemic response in Uganda providing prevention, care, treatment and Health Systems Strengthening services across several districts of Uganda and at its Center of Excellence (CoE). MUg has demonstrable capacity to pinpoint and focus her intervention to the most vulnerable people and deploys low cost models that high impact yet replicable. MUg is one of the National NGOs (NNGOs) operating sub-national programs that contribute significantly to national health outcomes and is currently the PEPFAR comprehensive implementing partner for Central Uganda (the region with highest HIV prevalence of 7.2% compared to 5.8% national prevalence). Mildmay Uganda management systems, including her laboratory, are accredited for ISO 9001:2015 and 15189:2012 respectively.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ugandan mentors to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH
  • HIV Prevention, Care & treatment
  • Key populations
  • Infectious Diseases. 
  • Non-Communicable Diseases. 
  • Biomedical Research. 
  • Dementia and Mental Health among others
 Uganda / GHES / Makerere University

U.S. Partner: Global Health Equity Scholars (Yale University)

Areas of Focus:

  • Lung health
  • Tuberculosis
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • HIV
  • Implementation science

Site Contacts:

  • Luke Davis, MD, U.S. Mentor (U-TIRC), Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Pulmonary); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health, Yale University - lucian.davis@yale.edu
  • Ryan Borg, Program Manager, Yale School of Public Health - ryan.borg@yale.edu

Summary:

The Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MaKCHS) is one of the leading medical universities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its mission is to improve the health of people of Uganda through innovative teaching and research and the provision of services responsive to societal needs. Opportunities are available at the following sites operating within MaKCHS.

Uganda TB Implementation Research Consortium (U-TIRC) & World Alliance for Lung and Intensive Care Medicine in Uganda (Walimu)

The World Alliance for Lung and Intensive Care Medicine in Uganda (Walimu) is a non-governmental institution that has a memorandum of understanding with Makerere University and hosts the Uganda TB Implementation Research Consortium (U-TIRC). U-TIRC is an academic-public health partnership involving the Uganda Ministry of Health, Makerere, and several overseas universities including Yale, Johns Hopkins, New York University, and several campuses of the University of California. Walimu oversees and operates a large portfolio of research and implementation projects funded by the U.S. NIH and other governments, foundations, public health, and development agencies who sponsor research and implementation activities. Walimu also sponsors robust local training and capacity building initiatives through its own programs and by hosting individual fellowships. Scientifically, U-TIRC focuses on improving tuberculosis prevention, diagnostic evaluation, case finding, and linkage to care by undertaking high quality clinical, epidemiological and implementation science research. U-TIRC is particularly interested in the effects of comorbidities including HIV and chronic diseases, and in addressing the TB-HIV-NCD syndemic. 

Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases (UINCD)

The Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases (UINCD) is a Uganda-based research-to-policy consortium between faculty at Makerere University College of Health Sciences (Uganda) and Yale School of Medicine (U.S.), and leadership at Mulago National Referral Hospital (Uganda) and the Uganda Ministry of Health. The mission of UINCD is to build capacity in the realms of prevention, care, training, and research to enable the provision of effective and integrated care along the NCD management spectrum. While physically based in the capital city, Kampala, UINCD’s reach includes the entire country of Uganda. The breadth of UINCD’s work includes access to essential medicines; self-care for NCDs including heart failure, diabetes, hypertension, and mental illness; mobile health, and HIV-hypertension integration.

Examples of current and recent research projects include:

  • Implementation of PEN-Plus, a WHO-adopted integrated care strategy to increase the quality of services for severe chronic conditions at referral centers
  • Using mobile health to improve self-care among patients with heart failure
  • Integrated management of HIV and hypertension
  • Updating the Uganda Essential Medicine and Health Supplies List for cardiovascular disease and other common chronic conditions

Other features of this site include:

  • Infection Diseases Institute (IDI) is a Ugandan not-for-profit organization whose mission is to strengthen health systems in Africa, with a strong emphasis on infectious diseases, through research and capacity development. Established within Makerere University, the Institute provides care and treatment services to over 100,000 people living with HIV in urban and rural settings in Uganda. IDI is also a national referral center for complicated cases of HIV. IDI leads a weekly research forum that serves as a regular venue for scientific exchange on HIV-TB research questions, among other topics.
  • The Makerere Lung Institute (MLI) is a research institute that was established in 2015 to respond to the epidemic of lung diseases in Uganda and other similar resource-limited settings. MLI seeks to conduct lung health research that integrates disease prevention, clinical care, and training. MLI hosts a monthly Day of Lung Science, which provides a forum for presentation of and feedback on scientific research by local investigators active in clinical and implementation research in TB in Uganda.
  • The Integrated Biorepository of H3Africa Uganda (IBRH3AU) is a biorepository located at Makerere College of Health Sciences with state-of-the-art facilities with the capacity to store over 400,000 samples. Its mission is to provide researchers with relevant genomic analyses to test new diagnostics, personalize treatment options and develop new treatment methods. The Director is Dr. Moses Joloba, Dean of the School of Biomedical Sciences at Makerere University, and an expert in translational research in TB. Services offered include processing of peripheral blood mononuclear cells, storage of serum, plasma, and whole blood, as well as culture isolates in an affiliated BSL3 laboratory.
  • The Mycobacteriology Laboratory is a state-of-the-art facility that is the only laboratory at Makerere University accredited to handle highly infectious agents. Equipment available in the BSL-3 laboratory includes a high containment area, a MGIT 960 automated culture machine; two level two bio-safety cabinets, CO2 incubators; inverted microscopes; refrigeration facilities; and an automated back-up generator system.
Uganda / GloCal / Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV 
  • HIV related co-infection and cancers (clinical and lab based)

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

The Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) is a Ugandan non-government organization owned by Makerere University with the mission: “To strengthen health systems in Africa through research and capacity building”. IDI provides comprehensive services for over 250,000 people with HIV and other infectious diseases in Uganda. It is unique in resource-limited settings as a one-stop site for mentees providing access to patients, samples, CAP certified laboratory, translational laboratory, statistic support, a variety training and short courses.

The research program hosts more than 100 research projects. The program has several collaborations with institutions based in the US and Europe; IDI collaborates with UCSF on a U54 project on Kaposi Sarcoma (PI: Martin J). Key areas of research are HIV and HIV related co-infection and cancers (clinical and lab based). Fellows can leverage existing programs, particularly the HIV clinic located at the Mulago site which hosts specialized services and grants on sexual and reproductive health, mental health, non-communicable diseases, treatment failure, Kaposi sarcoma diagnostic, TB co-infections and two ongoing cohorts (along-term outcomes cohort and a geriatric cohort).

While working within their proposed projects, all scholars and research fellows at IDI are offered training through orientation, journal clubs, research fellows peer support club, a short course on scientific writing, monthly soft skills training (e.g. how to formulate a research questions, how to present, PowerPoint skills etc.), and a weekly research forum.

The research capacity building unit within the research department provides infrastructural support, management of finances, administrative and regulatory support and oversight, internal monitoring, and the IDI scholars community for peer support and exchange.

For trainees with lab-based projects, the research translational lab has a microbiology section (BACTEC machine, incubators, biosafety cabinets, fluorescent microscopes (iLED Primostar Zeiss & Zeiss mercury vapor lamp), a molecular section (RT-PCR machine (AB 7500), convectional PCR, bio-fire machines, Gene Xpert), an immunology section (FACS Canto II flow cytometer, MiniMACs cell separator, Luminex MAGPIX, ELISA washer and plate reader), and a PK section (2 HPLC machines and a mass spectrophotometer). 

 Uganda / GloCal / Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal)

Areas of Focus:

Some of the important projects that could be leveraged for training future GloCal fellows include:

  • A Multisectoral Strategy to Address Persistent Drivers of the HIV Epidemic in East Africa.
  • Program for Resistance, Immunology, Surveillance, and Modeling of Malaria in Uganda.
  • Optimal chemo-preventive regimens to prevent malaria and improve birth outcomes in Uganda.
  • Integrated HIV/HTN, (Leveraging the HIV platform for hypertension control in Uganda).
  • Programs studying immune responses to malaria infection, antimalarial drug resistance and treatment efficacy, antiretroviral therapy initiation, HIV-associated pneumonia, and TB.

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

The Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC) is a not-for-profit organization, established in 2008 by Ugandan health scientists from Makerere University and the Ministry of Health (MoH) to conduct research in infectious diseases. IDRC has active memoranda of understanding with Makerere University, MoH and UCSF to conduct research in infectious diseases, including malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis. The mission of IDRC is to conduct high-quality research in infectious and other diseases of public health importance through collaboration and partnerships. Specific objectives including: I) To build capacity through training, technology advancement and improvement of local health service infrastructure; II) To conduct research in infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other diseases of public importance; III) To disseminate results of research and promote an evidence-based approach to policy making by linking researchers and policy makers; IV) To support the efforts of the Uganda Ministry of Health, Mulago Hospital and other health institutions in Uganda in prevention, care and treatment of infectious diseases.

The collaboration includes over thirty faculty at MU and UCSF, with a budget of $10 million and over 50 publications annually. Some of the important projects that could be leveraged for training future GloCal fellows include:

  • A Multisectoral Strategy to Address Persistent Drivers of the HIV Epidemic in East Africa.
  • Program for Resistance, Immunology, Surveillance, and Modeling of Malaria in Uganda.
  • Optimal chemo-preventive regimens to prevent malaria and improve birth outcomes in Uganda.
  • Integrated HIV/HTN, (Leveraging the HIV platform for hypertension control in Uganda).
  • Programs studying immune responses to malaria infection, antimalarial drug resistance and treatment efficacy, antiretroviral therapy initiation, HIV-associated pneumonia, and TB.

FIC, GloCal, K43 and G11 funded programs have trained and built capacity of over 80 Ugandan junior scientists and administrators. IDRC has facilities and resources with over 20 administrators to support trainees. The facilities include office space at its headquarters and research sites in Tororo, Mbale and Mbarara; a reference malaria laboratory; a research infrastructure for clinical, translational, and molecular research; and modern data management centers in Kampala and Tororo.

 Uganda / INSIGHT / Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST)

U.S. Partner: Integrated Network of Scholars in Global Health Research Training (INSIGHT), University of Alabama at Birmingham

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV care
  • HIV prevention
  • Reproductive health
  • health sciences education
  • human medicine
  • nursing
  • medical laboratory sciences
  • pharmacy
  • pharmaceutical sciences
  • physiotherapy
  • interdisciplinary healthcare delivery through community-based education, research, and service (COBERS)

Site Contacts:

Summary:

Mbarara University of Science & Technology (commonly known as MUST), a public university in Uganda commenced student intake and instruction in 1989 and is one of the ten public universities and degree-awarding institutions in the country. MUST is accredited by the National Council for Higher Education in Uganda and has acclaimed national and international recognition for best practices in outreach and community relations from Association of Commonwealth Universities, European Union and the Civil Society of Uganda. The Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital (MRRH) is the sole teaching hospital for the MUST Medical School and is the referral hospital for the Western Region of Uganda. The 320 bed referral hospital provides outpatient and inpatient clinical care, training, and research infrastructure in southwestern Uganda - a region 36,870 square kilometers in size with a population of over 5 million representing about 18% of the national population. MRRH houses the Immune Suppression Syndrome Clinic (ISS Clinic), a PEPFAR-funded clinical site, which serves as the hospital’s HIV outpatient clinic.

MUST Faculty is dedicated to training a diverse group of future leaders in academic health professions and clinical practice who will combine clinical medicine with the discovery of new knowledge through research.  MUST has an Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Laboratory providing diagnostic microbiology services for improved patient care. With the recent addition of upgraded workstations, storage units, air conditioning, a bio-safety cabinet, a laboratory refrigerator, an incubator 405L, a bacticinerator, turbidity meter, and a magnetic stirrer, the lab is classified as a Bio-safety Level II. The MUST Research Laboratory is a certified Clinical and Research Laboratory which implements Good Clinical Practice protocols for the processing, storage and testing of laboratory specimens for the adjacent MRRH hospital. The laboratory also houses a Beckman Coulter AU480 chemistry analyzer, Thermo Fischer Scientific Applied Biosystems Viia7 Real-time PCR assay, laminar flow biosafety hoods, three centrifuges, and an additional bank of freezers with backup generator power source. With a modern laboratory of this nature both MRRH and MUST serve students, researchers and patients in the entire western Uganda region. 

The MUST Global Health Research Collaboration has worked for over 16 years to develop partnerships with Massachusetts General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, UAB, University of Minnesota, Lund University, and many others.  These partnerships have helped the MUST Research Collaboration to grow extensive research infrastructure in Mbarara. 

The Collaboration occupies fully equipped and independent research space adjacent to MUST and MRRH for conduct of clinical research. Collaboration facilities include enrollment and interview rooms, an independent phlebotomy and specimen collection room, staff offices, and meeting space as well as 24-hour internet access (with 4G modem data management packages), remote library access, and remote study database access for data entry, quality assurance, and analysis. 

 Uganda / INSIGHT / Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation-Uganda (Baylor-Uganda)

U.S. Partner: Baylor College of Medicine  

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV
  • TB
  • Orphans and Vulnerable Children services  
  • Clinical trials and implementation research 
  • Global Health Security 
  • Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Newborn Child and Adolescent health 

Site Contacts:

Summary:

Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation-Uganda (Baylor-Uganda) is a not-for-profit organization established in 2006. The organization is a leading provider of integrated high quality and high impact HIV, TB, Maternal and Child Health services, health professional training, and research in Uganda. Baylor-Uganda has grown its portfolio from managing only 3 grants (< 1 million USD) in 2006 to over 34 grants worth about 40 million USD. Other program areas include Global Health security, nutrition, and social support to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). The research directorate conducts clinical trials (industry including vaccines), implementation research, and cohort studies. 

Baylor Uganda is headquartered at Mulago Hospital where it runs a Pediatric and Adolescent family-centered HIIV/AIDS/TB Clinic with close to 8500 clients. Under comprehensive HIV programs, Baylor-Uganda supports the Ministry of Health, 3 Regional Referral Hospitals, and 47 District Local Governments through a health system strengthening approach to include combination prevention strategies (PreP, VMMC), HIV testing services, MNCH, HIV care & treatment. In 2022, the organization’s programs supported over 420 health facilities reaching 217,000 clients on ART in the Kampala, Fort Portal, Hoima, and Mbale regions – as a result, we reached 961000 persons with HIV testing services, 406000 pregnant women with PMTCT services, 25000 OVC, 17000 TB patients and 38500 KPs.

The Baylor Uganda call center (National Pediatric, and Adolescent HIV/AIDS/TB Call center [NAPAC]) provides consultative technical support services to health workers across the country and the communities in pediatrics and adolescent HIV/AIDS/TB management and HIV self-testing. The call center also provides counseling services support to study participants. 

The Global Health Security (GHS) program works collaboratively with the Ministry of Health to promote its mandate in policy formulation and oversight role for combating epidemics in Uganda. The program has been very instrumental in the detection, prevention, and control of the COVID-19 and Ebola epidemics in Uganda. 

 Uganda / NPGH / Makerere University (Kampala) Mbarara University of Science and Technology (Mbarara)/Global Health Uganda

U.S. Partner: University of Minnesota

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV and Cryptococcal Meningitis
  • Epidemiology and surveillance systems for infectious disease and zoonotic infection
  • Mobile health interventions (women’s health and HIV)
  • Immunology
  • Neuropsychology
  • Nutrition (primarily pediatric) and infectious disease
  • Vaccine research 

Site Contacts: Dr. Shailey Prasad - pras0054@umn.edu

Summary: 

The University of Minnesota has a long-standing research relationship with multiple colleges at Makerere University (Infectious Disease Institute, College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, and the College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources, and Biosecurity) starting in 2005 and with Mbarara University starting in 2010 regarding neuro-infectious disease research. The University of Minnesota has enabled training for 7 PhDs and 13 master’s Ugandan trainees through nested projects of NIH-sponsored clinical research. Since 2012, 20 Fogarty Scholars and Fellows have been trained in this capacity through 1-year global health fellowships (1 at MUST, 19 at Makerere). Additionally, three Ugandan principal investigators have obtained independent NIH funding. 

The University of Minnesota has strong resources to support research fellows through an extensive network of researchers at all three institutions committed to advancing research training.

 Uganda / UJMT / Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • ID epidemiology particularly STIs, tuberculosis, acute febrile illness
  • Emerging infections and surveillance
  • HIV, opportunistic infections, aging, and malignancies
  • Programmatic implementation science – research to practice and policy

Site Contacts:

Summary:

Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) is a Ugandan not-for-profit organization owned by Makerere University. Its mission is “to strengthen health systems in Africa, with a strong emphasis on infectious diseases, through Research and Capacity building.” IDI supports the Ministry of Health through providing both direct prevention, care and treatment services as well as technical assistance and health systems strengthening support in over 70 districts of Uganda. IDI has established long term international research collaborations with major academic centres worldwide (e.g., JHU, Harvard Medical School, UCSF, and many others) which provide a widening global dimension to research at IDI. IDI also participates in international networks such as such as the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS: East Africa network (IeDEA); the East African Consortium for Clinical Research (EACCR), a European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)-supported initiative; and Training Health Researchers into Vocational Excellence in East Africa (THRiVE), a Welcome Trust funded initiative (under the Makerere University umbrella). 

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Uganda based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • ID epidemiology particularly STIs, tuberculosis, acute febrile illness
  • Emerging infections and surveillance
  • HIV, opportunistic infections, aging, and malignancies
  • Programmatic implementation science – research to practice and policy
 Uganda / UJMT / Makerere University

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • Cancer
  • Child health
  • Communicable diseases (both non-HIV and HIV/AIDS)
  • Noncommunicable diseases 
  • Neurologic disorders
  • Trauma and injury
  • Women’s health
  • Pulmonary health

Site Contacts:

Summary:

The Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS) is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Africa, with over 40,000 students. It is the leading institution for medical instruction and research in the East, Central and Southern Africa (excluding South Africa). MakCHS has a strong track record of successful collaborative research with local, American and European universities and institutions and has participated in many of the early trials of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria interventions in the region.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Uganda based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Cancer
  • Child health
  • Communicable diseases (both non-HIV and HIV/AIDS)
  • Noncommunicable diseases 
  • Neurologic disorders
  • Trauma and injury
  • Women’s health
  • Pulmonary health
 Uganda / UJMT / MU-JHU Care

U.S. Partner: Johns Hopkins University

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV/AIDS
  • Prevention of maternal to child transmission of HIV

Site Contacts:

Summary:

MU-JHU CARE Ltd (also known as ‘Makerere U.-Johns Hopkins U. Research Collaboration’) was first established in 1988 as a collaboration between investigators in the Departments of Obstetrics/ Gynaecology and Paediatrics at Makerere Univeristy School of Medicine and U.S. HIV Investigators. The MU-JHU Research Collaboration became incorporated as a not- for- profit local Uganda entity in 2006. For over 30 years, MU-JHU has been a leading research institution in Uganda with a sustained focus on HIV and women/maternal and pediatric health. 

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Uganda based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • HIV/AIDS
  • Prevention of maternal to child transmission of HIV
 Vietnam / GloCal / Hanoi Medical University (HMU)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV/AIDS
  • STIs
  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Addiction
  • Mental Health
  • Aging 
  • Non-Communicable diseases

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

Hanoi Medical University (HMU), established in 1902, is the oldest and largest health sciences university in Vietnam. HMU has a 400-bed teaching hospital and schools in medicine, nursing, public health, and traditional medicine. HMU has more than 70 academic departments and research units and about 1000 faculty members who have received their graduate training in Vietnam and/or abroad. It collaborates with universities all over the world for teaching and research.

The collaboration between HMU and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) started in 2011 with the Vietnam – HIV Addiction Technology Transfer Center (VHATTC) project, funded by SAMHSA with technical assistance from UCLA’s Integrated Substance Abuse Program. VHATTC (now renamed to Vietnam International Technology Transfer Center) continues to be a technical assistance resource for addiction professionals in Vietnam. In 2016, a Fogarty-funded training program on advanced epidemiological methods (NIH D43 TWW010057) for Vietnamese scholars was led by Dr. Li Li (UCLA). Collaboration on a study of antimicrobial resistance in STDs began in 2017, and continued with a study on STIs among PrEP users and antimicrobial resistance in N. gonorrhoeae (7R21AI157817-02). In 2020, NIDA funded HMU to work with Dr. Steven Shoptaw (UCLA) on a study to reduce methamphetamine use among methadone patients (R01DA050486).

With the continuing GloCal training program, HMU aims to develop more studies in important areas including HIV/AIDS, STIs, antimicrobial resistance, addiction, mental health, aging and non-communicable diseases.

 Vietnam / UJMT / UNC Project Vietnam

U.S. Partner: 

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV in at risk populations including men who have sex with men and people who inject drugs
  • Substance abuse
  • Alcohol reduction interventions
  • Implementation research
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Mental health
  • HIV comorbidities including HCV and TB

Site Contacts:

Summary:

UNC Project Vietnam site in Hanoi has been operational since 2001. UNC has invested in enhanced local clinical, laboratory, and pharmacy capacity to meet international QA standards for conducting investigational drug trials in Vietnam. UNC has established Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with the 198 Hospital, Hanoi Medical University (HMU), Vietnam Authority for AIDS control, and Bach Mai Hospital. UNC has two main research sites in Hanoi: Hanoi Medical University and National Lung Hospital. Our primary partners for all research and training activities are governmental institutions within the Ministry of Health (MOH), including the Vietnam Authority of HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC), the primary agency responsible for overseeing and implementing HIV-related programs and policy in Vietnam. Our success over the years has been based on transparency with the VAAC and the alignment of our activities with Vietnam’s research priorities. Our strong research collaborations and infrastructure position the Vietnam site well to access at risk populations with and without HIV, including people who inject drugs, men who have sex with men, transgender women, HBV-infected individuals, and TB patients, as well as access to HIV-infected individuals at ART clinics.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Vietnam based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • HIV in at risk populations including men who have sex with men and people who inject drugs
  • Substance abuse
  • Alcohol reduction interventions
  • Implementation research
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Mental health
  • HIV comorbidities including HCV and TB

 

Epidemiology/Communicable Diseases

Ethiopia / HBNU / Addis Continental Institute of Public Health 

U.S. Partner: Harvard University

Areas of Focus:

  • Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
  • Adolescent Health
  • Infectious Disease 

Site Contacts: Site Director: Yemane Berhane, Director, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, ACIPH ( yemaneberhane@addiscontinental.edu.et )

Summary:

In collaboration with Fogarty International Center, the consortium of Harvard University, Boston University, Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico (HBNU) is seeking to host a Fulbright – Fogarty fellow at the consortium’s site in Ethiopia: Addis Continental Institute of Public Health (ACIPH).

Addis Continental Institute of Public Health is an independent center of excellence for public health research and training. Established in 2006, ACIPH is an accredited higher learning institute and provides technical services and training in major health issues in Africa. The Institute has highly qualified core technical experts and a number of associate consultants in the various fields of health and social sciences. The Institute has over 80 full time technical and administrative staff, and over 100 trained field research workers. The data management unit is also staffed with well trained and experienced individuals. ACIPH supports the attainment of healthier lives for Africans by establishing and maintaining centers of excellence for health training and strategic health information to enhance the quality of health services and promote evidence based public health practices. In addition to providing short term training, assisting with generating strategic information through research, monitoring and evaluation, and establishing routine database systems, ACIPH provides consultancy services in the areas of public health training, research and services to Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health and to other global health organizations. Institute investigators and students focus their research efforts on major public health problems such as reproductive health, child health, nutrition and food security, non-communicable diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, as well as other emerging and re-emerging public health challenges. Investigators provide training and technical assistance in methodological issues such as data management, analysis and report writing in both quantitative and qualitative research approaches. 

ACIPH’s main objectives are: 

  • Conduct training programs to enhance performance in health services and program management.
  • Support evidence-based practice by conducting research and monitoring and evaluation activities.
  • Provide technical support for organizations and/or individuals engaged in collecting, analyzing, and dissemination of health and population data/information.
  • Develop and undertake training programs to support human resource development in the continent.
  • ACIPH is located in the convenient area of Addis Ababa in Yeka sub-city. The office is equipped with computers and printers, photocopy machines, communication services including high-speed broadband and Wi-Fi internet, telephone and fax machines, data and documentation center, and transportation vehicles. The Institute building was constructed in 2012 and stands five stories high. The Institute has highly qualified core technical experts and some associate consultants in the various fields of health and social sciences. The Institute has over 45 full time technical and administrative staff, and over 80 trained field research workers.

ACIPH works closely with Addis Ababa University (AAU) School of Public Health. AAU was established in 1964 with the purpose of training medial students with up-to-date public health knowledge and skills to prevent and control communicable diseases that contribute to the high morbidity and mortality of the Ethiopian people.

 Ghana / GHES / Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), University of Ghana

U.S. Partner: Global Health Equity Scholars (Yale University)

Areas of Focus:

  • Emerging infectious diseases
  • Neglected tropical diseases
  • Opportunistic infections
  • HIV

Site Contacts: 

Summary:

The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), established in 1979 as a semi-autonomous institute of the University of Ghana, is the country’s leading biomedical research facility. It is committed to high-quality, cutting-edge research on national health priorities and training biomedical scientists and health researchers.

The Institute’s research portfolio is wide and varied, and it includes malaria, soil-transmitted helminthiasis and schistosomiasis, filariasis (lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis), diarrheal diseases, Buruli ulcer, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, poliomyelitis, sexually transmitted infections, micronutrients, infant and maternal mortality, viral hemorrhagic fevers, EPI Diseases, hemoglobinopathies (sickle cell disease etc.), plant medicine, drug discovery and environmental pollution. Examples of current and reserach projects include:         

  • Clinical outcomes and adverse effects of Dolutegravir based treatment regimens for persons living with HIV.
  • Disclosure of HIV status to children and adolescents (Sankofa 2 study).
  • Correlation between intracellular levels of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and suppression of HIV 1 and Hepatitis B infections.                                                                                                                                                                   

 Other features of this site include:

  • The Parasitology Department within NMIMR: PCR and DNA sequencing, parasitological analyses of urine, stool and blood (including clinical chemistry), laboratory cultures of Plasmodium falciparum 3D7 strain and Leishmania species, fully equipped entomology laboratory and insectaries.
  • Through collaboration with the Ghana Health Service, NMIMR maintains 10 active field research stations throughout the country. The technical staff have extensive experience conducting field studies on malaria, leishmania and helminth infections.
  • The Institute houses the administrative buildings for the West African Centre for International Parasite Control (WACIPAC), the Lymphatic Filariasis Support Centre for Africa (LFSCA), and a Health Support Centre for HIV/AIDS counselling and training.
  • Active collaborative research and training experiences through a variety of international partners, including GYPGH, University of Michigan, University of Denmark among others.
  • GYPGH has sponsored 25 students, faculty and staff from Ghana to spend up to two months at Yale, where they participate in the annual Summer Research Institute and receive intensive mentorship at various Yale labs.
 Ghana / GloCal / University of Ghana (UG)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal) 

Areas of Focus:

  • infectious and non-communicable diseases
  • mental health
  • climate change
  • maternal and child health/nutrition
  • nutrition and child development
  • blood safety and availability

Site Contacts: Craig CohenCraig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

For nearly 30 years, the University of Ghana has collaborated with UC Davis in research and capacity building: many key studies in maternal and child nutrition have been completed or are underway in Ghana, and several Ghanaians have received their Ph.D. from UC Davis and have returned to UG or continued to work in the international arena. UCSF has also recently started some collaborative projects in Ghana on person-centered maternity care and COVID-19 effects on health care workers.

UG faculty's research areas include infectious and non-communicable diseases, mental health, climate change, maternal and child health and nutrition, nutrition and child development, and blood safety and availability. Elements that make UG a strong partner include:

  • Office of Research, Innovation and Development (ORID) which promotes, coordinates, and facilitates research activities, as well as manages external research funds.
  • International Programs Office (IPO) coordinates and promotes relations with international students and scholars. It has a variety of services, including assistance with accommodation, immigration issues, and local culture.

UG also collaborates with several other research institutions, such as the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research; Centre for Tropical, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics; the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens; the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement; and the West African Genetic Medicine Centre (WAGMC).

 Ghana / HBNU / University of Ghana

U.S. Partner: Harvard University and University of New Mexico.

Areas of Focus: 

  • Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
  • Adolescent Health
  • Infectious Disease
Site Contacts: Gordon Awandare, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Ghana (gawandare@ug.edu.gh)

Summary:

In collaboration with Fogarty International Center, the consortium of Harvard University, Boston University, Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico (HBNU) is seeking to host a Fulbright – Fogarty fellow at the consortium’s site in Ghana: University of Ghana. 

The University of Ghana (UG) was founded as the University College of the Gold Coast by Ordinance on August 11, 1948 for the purpose of providing and promoting university education, learning and research. The vision of the university is to become a world class research-intensive university with the mission of creating an enabling environment that makes University of Ghana increasingly relevant to national and global development through cutting-edge research as well as high quality teaching and learning.

UG is administered through a central administration which includes a collegiate system comprising the following colleges and a School of Graduate Studies:

  • College of Basic and Applied Sciences
  • College of Education
  • College of Health Sciences
  • College of Humanities

The University has several research institutions and centres for learning and research, within the colleges. Those that involved in health-related research include:

College of Basic and Applied Sciences

  • West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP)
  • Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies
  • Biotechnology Research Centre
  • Center for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies(C3SS)

College of Health Sciences

  • Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research
  • Centre for Tropical, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • West African Genetic Medicine Centre (WAGMC)

College of Humanities

  • Regional Institute for Population Studies
  • Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research
  • Centre for Urban Management Studies
  • Centre for Ageing Studies

Additionally, to promote, coordinate, and facilitate research activities within the university, the Office of Research, Innovation and Development (ORID) was established in 2010. ORID provides research administration and grant management services to researchers. It has the specific responsibility of developing and implementing the University’s research policy, ensuring effective distribution and efficient use of research funds and representing the interests of the University in contractual relationships, grant applications and reporting administering contract research.

 Ghana / UJMT / Noguchi Memorial Institute

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • Vector-borne diseases, including malaria, lymphatic filariasis, guinea worm, and avian influenza
  • CDs, including diabetes mellitus and CVD
  • Micronutrients
  • Infant and maternal mortality
  • Sickle cell disease
  • Allergies and environmental pollution
  • HIV/AIDS and TB

Site Contacts: Michael Wilson – MWilson@noguchi.ug.edu.gh

Summary:

The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), established in 1979 as a semi-autonomous institute of the University of Ghana, is the country’s leading biomedical research facility. The Institute spearheads biomedical research in Ghana on diseases of public health importance in the country and the African region. NMIMR focuses primarily on research into infectious diseases, including malaria, soil transmitted helminthiasis and schistosomiasis, filariasis lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, buruli ulcer, poliomyelitis, sexually transmitted infections, viral hemorrhagic fevers, diarrheal diseases, and vaccine-preventable diseases.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ghanian based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Vector-borne diseases, including malaria, lymphatic filariasis, guinea worm, and avian influenza
  • NCDs, including diabetes mellitus and CVD
  • Micronutrients
  • Infant and maternal mortality
  • Sickle cell disease
  • Allergies and environmental pollution
  • HIV/AIDS and TB
 Peru / GHES / Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH)

U.S. Partner: Global Health Equity Scholars (Yale University)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV and aging
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • Musculoskeletal health
  • Osteoporosis
  • Sarcopenia
  • Parasitic diseases
  • Malaria
  • Leptospirosis
  • Immunology, molecular biology

Site Contacts: 

  • Evelyn Hsieh, MD, PhDc, U.S. Mentor (SPH), Associate Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology); Chief of Rheumatology, VA Connecticut Healthcare System; Program Director, CMB Global Health Leadership Development Program; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health, Yale University - evelyn.hsieh@yale.edu
  • Joseph Vinetz, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FASTMH, BS, U.S. Mentor (LID), Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Anthropology, and Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health, Yale University - joseph.vinetz@yale.edu

Summary:

Peru is a country of enormous geographic, cultural, and biologic diversity. Located in the capital city of Lima, the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) is the leading biomedical teaching and research institution in the country. Since its foundation, UPCH´s scientific contributions have significantly influenced national public health policies and promoted development and innovation in Peru. Opportunities are available to work at the UPCH School of Public Health and Administration (SPHA) or the Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollos (LID). 

The School of Public Health and Administration (FASPA, acronym in Spanish), founded in 1998, is the only School of Public Health in Peru. Its mission is to generate, apply and disseminate knowledge relevant to health promotion, disease prevention and treatment in human populations. FASPA is committed to improving health management, health policies and health economics and considers research to be a key strategy to design effective policy and intervention programs. The SPHA mentor, Dr. Garcia, has served as Dean of FASPA, Director of the Instituto Nacional de Salud (Peruvian National Institute of Health), and most recently as the Minister of Health of Peru. The U.S. mentor affiliated with SPHA, Dr. Hsieh, is an Associate Professor at the Yale School of Medicine (Rheumatology) and School of Public Health (Chronic Disease Epidemiology). Her recent work focuses on prevention of osteoporosis and fractures in countries undergoing economic transition, and the intersection between HIV and non-communicable disease. Drs. Hsieh and Dr. Garcia have collaborated on epidemiological, prevention and health services research projects related to women’s health topics including sexually transmitted infections, osteoporosis, and aging-related comorbidities among Peruvian women with HIV (osteoporosis, fractures, and sarcopenia). This site strives to expand knowledge in these key areas of health, which are understudied in Peru and across much of Latin America. Current or recent projects include:

  • Musculoskeletal Outcomes among Women Aging with HIV in Peru
  • Health-Related Quality of Life among Women Aging with HIV and Peru
  • Capacity building for NCD care for the HIV positive population of Peru: a national assessment of knowledge and resources among HIV providers
  • Expanding the toolbox for prevention of sarcopenia and osteoporosis among Peruvian People with HIV: A validation study

The Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollos (LID) contributes to the scientific and technological progress of Peru through its state-of-the-art facilities that support cutting edge research and innovation. The U.S. mentor affiliated with LID, Dr. Vinetz, has worked in Peru since 1998, studying leptospirosis and malaria. Dr. Vinetz maintains a laboratory on the UPCH Faculty of Sciences campus and a fully functioning field laboratory. Dr. Gamboa leads the Malaria Research Group at LID-UPCH. This group has three independent laboratories that are the most modern facilities of their kind in Peru (outside of government). Facilities at LID include laboratories for molecular/cellular biology, bioinformatics and immunology. The Malaria Research Group also has laboratory facilities in Iquitos, which houses an insectary specialized in rearing mosquito species involved in malaria transmission. Drs. Vinetz and Gamboa have been collaborators for over 14 years. Together, they manage the Amazonian International Center of Excellence in Malaria Research (ICEMR), which focuses on utilizing a comprehensive approach to understanding the biological features of Amazonian malaria towards the ultimate goal of regional control and elimination of Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax.

Current research projects and focus areas include:

  • Amazonian Center of Excellence in Malaria Research (Amazonia ICEMR): The goal of this project is to continue supporting the Amazonia ICEMR in its effort to discover underlying principles and develop new tools to go beyond conventional malaria control activities towards regional malaria elimination.
  • Translational Research Development for Endemic Infectious Diseases of Amazonia: The goal of this project is to continue supporting the Global Infectious Disease Training program at UPCH, which aims to enhance tropical infectious disease research capacity in Peru by focusing on research disciplines and diseases relevant to the Amazon region of Peru.
  • Immunology of asympomatic malaria and the immunity effects in plasmodium transmission
  • Study of the fundamental biology of malaria resilience in the Amazon - characterize human populations of malaria transmission reservoirs (epidemiology), study the molecular ecology and transmission biology of human-Anopheles interactions, and investigate molecular and cellular mechanisms of non-sterilizing clinical immunity to malaria caused by P. vivax and P. falciparum.
  • Leptospira and Leptospirosis – collaboration of multidisciplinary studies of Leptospira and leptospirosis, focused on clinical field studies of acute undifferentiated febrile illness to characterize epidemiological and clinical features of leptospirosis and ultimately deploy new novel molecular and point-of-care diagnostic tests.
 Peru / GloCal / Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal)

Areas of Focus:

  • Emerging, infectious, tropical, and non-communicable diseases
  • Maternal and child health
  • sexual and reproductive health
  • mental health
  • substance abuse 
  • climate change 
  • one health

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) is the premier biomedical sciences university and research center in Peru and a recognized leader in Latin America, leading all but one of the 28 currently active NIH grants in Peru according to the NIH Reporter. UPCH world-class global health research generates unique mentored research training opportunities for prospective fellows on emerging, infectious, tropical and non-communicable diseases, maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health, mental health, substance use/abuse, climate change and one health.

UPCH has had decades of productive research collaborations with multiple UC campuses such as with UCLA/UCSF on HIV/AIDS/STDs (Coates, Kegeles, Clark & Konda), malaria with UCSD (Winzeler & Vinetz) and One Health and emerging diseases with UC Davis (Foley), among many others. NIH research grants support most of this work, and efforts are complemented with multiple D43 training grants on both non-communicable and HIV/non-HIV infectious diseases, and also fellowship grants.

UPCH has field, clinical, laboratory, computational and animal experimentation facilities spread across Peru’s mega-diverse ecological regions: the Amazon Basin, highlands up to 22,000 feet and 2400 kilometers of Pacific coast. Additional world-class resources and assets are brought by a broad network of Peruvian and foreign partners including among many others the US Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6), Asociación Civil Vía Libre and Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía.

UPCH fellows can attend on-site or virtual coursework on research methods, biostatistics, epidemiology, bioethics and responsible conduct of research, in addition to Epidemiology master’s and doctorates, programs mostly developed by a longstanding NIH D43 training grant. Highly-capable institutional and GloCal-dedicated research administration teams support our activities. All research follows rigorous, Peruvian Ministry of Health-approved COVID-19 biosafety protocols.

 Peru / HBNU / Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia  

U.S. Partner: Boston University and Northwestern University

Areas of Focus:

  • Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
  • Adolescent Health
  • Infectious Disease 
  • Mental Health 
  • Non-communicable Diseases

Site Contacts: Site Director: Patricia Garcia, Professor, School of Public Health, Cayetano Heredia University - pattyg@uw.edu

Summary:

In collaboration with Fogarty International Center, the consortium of Harvard University, Boston University, Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico (HBNU) is seeking to host a Fulbright – Fogarty fellow at the consortium’s site in Peru: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH).

Cayetano Heredia University located in Lima, Peru is considered one of the top medical schools in Peru and is one of the major producers and publishers of scientific research in the country. Founded in 1961 by a group of professors and students from the medical school of the four-century-old National University of San Marcos in Lima, Cayetano Heredia University has established numerous agreements and collaborative arrangements with leading institutions from all over the world.

 Peru / UJMT / A.B. PRISMA 

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus: 

  • Infant malnutrition
  • Household air pollution
  • Maternal and neonatal health
  • Climate change
  • ID epidemiology

Site Contacts: Marilu Chiang – mchiang@prisma.org.pe

Summary:

Asociación Benéfica PRISMA (AB PRISMA) is a Peruvian non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to improving the quality of life of Peruvian families in extreme poverty. AB PRISMA is the largest independent NGO in Peru and the fourth largest NGO in Peru overall. PRISMA seeks to support sustainable human and economic development through projects in health, reproductive health, nutrition, and agriculture, as well as projects that improve incomes and provide access to economic opportunities. Since it was founded in 1986, PRISMA has carried out health, family planning, and nutrition programs throughout Peru with both the public and private sectors. PRISMA has always placed an important emphasis on research and operational research. PRISMA has very close collaborative relationships for research relating to specific research projects with the Cayetano Heredia Medical School, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, and the US Naval Medical Research Detachment (NAMRU-6). 

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Peru based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Infant malnutrition
  • Household air pollution
  • Maternal and neonatal health
  • Climate change
  • ID epidemiology
 Uganda / ACHIEVE / Makerere University Department of Psychology

U.S. Partner: Washington University in St. Louis 

Areas of Focus:

  • Family and child health, maternal and reproductive health 
  • Gender-based violence 
  • Communicable and non-communicable disease epidemiology 
  • Environmental health, community engagement 
  • HIV prevention, care, and treatment

Site Contacts:

Summary:

The Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MaKCHS) is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Africa.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ugandan mentors to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Family and child health, maternal and reproductive health 
  • Gender-based violence 
  • Communicable and non-communicable disease epidemiology 
  • Environmental health, community engagement 
  • HIV prevention, care, and treatment
 Uganda / ACHIEVE / MildMay Uganda

U.S. Partner: Washington University in St. Louis 

Areas of Focus:

  • Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH
  • HIV Prevention, Care & treatment
  • Key populations
  • Infectious Diseases.
  • Non-Communicable Diseases.
  • Biomedical Research.
  • Dementia and Mental Health among others

Site Contacts:

Summary:

MildMay Uganda is a national Non-Government Organization established in Uganda in 1998 as a Centre of Excellence for provision of comprehensive HIV&AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and training services. Overtime, Mildmay Uganda has evolved and diversified its services specializing in delivery of comprehensive healthcare including Treatment Services; Health Systems Strengthening; Other Complementary Social Services; Health Training and Education; and Research.

Mildmay Research Centre Uganda (MRCU) is a subsidiary of Mildmay Uganda (MUg). MUg is a national indigenous, faith-based organization registered under Uganda’s law with the national NGO Registration Board as a non-government organization (NGO) with affiliates in the UK and Kenya. SINCE 1998, MUg has been modelling quality and sustainable prevention, care and treatment of HIV and other health priorities, using a family-centered approach together with training, education and research in Uganda. MUg pioneered specialist paediatric HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa and is one of the two paediatric palliative care Beacon Centres in Africa. For over 21 years now, MUg has been, and is a key player in the HIV epidemic response in Uganda providing prevention, care, treatment and Health Systems Strengthening services across several districts of Uganda and at its Center of Excellence (CoE). MUg has demonstrable capacity to pinpoint and focus her intervention to the most vulnerable people and deploys low cost models that high impact yet replicable. MUg is one of the National NGOs (NNGOs) operating sub-national programs that contribute significantly to national health outcomes and is currently the PEPFAR comprehensive implementing partner for Central Uganda (the region with highest HIV prevalence of 7.2% compared to 5.8% national prevalence). Mildmay Uganda management systems, including her laboratory, are accredited for ISO 9001:2015 and 15189:2012 respectively.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ugandan mentors to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH
  • HIV Prevention, Care & treatment
  • Key populations
  • Infectious Diseases. 
  • Non-Communicable Diseases. 
  • Biomedical Research. 
  • Dementia and Mental Health among others
 Uganda / GloCal / Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal)

Areas of Focus:

Some of the important projects that could be leveraged for training future GloCal fellows include:

  • A Multisectoral Strategy to Address Persistent Drivers of the HIV Epidemic in East Africa.
  • Program for Resistance, Immunology, Surveillance, and Modeling of Malaria in Uganda.
  • Optimal chemo-preventive regimens to prevent malaria and improve birth outcomes in Uganda.
  • Integrated HIV/HTN, (Leveraging the HIV platform for hypertension control in Uganda).
  • Programs studying immune responses to malaria infection, antimalarial drug resistance and treatment efficacy, antiretroviral therapy initiation, HIV-associated pneumonia, and TB.

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

The Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC) is a not-for-profit organization, established in 2008 by Ugandan health scientists from Makerere University and the Ministry of Health (MoH) to conduct research in infectious diseases. IDRC has active memoranda of understanding with Makerere University, MoH and UCSF to conduct research in infectious diseases, including malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis. The mission of IDRC is to conduct high-quality research in infectious and other diseases of public health importance through collaboration and partnerships. Specific objectives including: I) To build capacity through training, technology advancement and improvement of local health service infrastructure; II) To conduct research in infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other diseases of public importance; III) To disseminate results of research and promote an evidence-based approach to policy making by linking researchers and policy makers; IV) To support the efforts of the Uganda Ministry of Health, Mulago Hospital and other health institutions in Uganda in prevention, care and treatment of infectious diseases.

The collaboration includes over thirty faculty at MU and UCSF, with a budget of $10 million and over 50 publications annually. Some of the important projects that could be leveraged for training future GloCal fellows include:

  • A Multisectoral Strategy to Address Persistent Drivers of the HIV Epidemic in East Africa.
  • Program for Resistance, Immunology, Surveillance, and Modeling of Malaria in Uganda.
  • Optimal chemo-preventive regimens to prevent malaria and improve birth outcomes in Uganda.
  • Integrated HIV/HTN, (Leveraging the HIV platform for hypertension control in Uganda).
  • Programs studying immune responses to malaria infection, antimalarial drug resistance and treatment efficacy, antiretroviral therapy initiation, HIV-associated pneumonia, and TB.

FIC, GloCal, K43 and G11 funded programs have trained and built capacity of over 80 Ugandan junior scientists and administrators. IDRC has facilities and resources with over 20 administrators to support trainees. The facilities include office space at its headquarters and research sites in Tororo, Mbale and Mbarara; a reference malaria laboratory; a research infrastructure for clinical, translational, and molecular research; and modern data management centers in Kampala and Tororo.

 Uganda / NPGH / Makerere University (Kampala) Mbarara University of Science and Technology (Mbarara)/Global Health Uganda

U.S. Partner: University of Minnesota

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV and Cryptococcal Meningitis
  • Epidemiology and surveillance systems for infectious disease and zoonotic infection
  • Mobile health interventions (women’s health and HIV)
  • Immunology
  • Neuropsychology
  • Nutrition (primarily pediatric) and infectious disease
  • Vaccine research 

Site Contacts: Dr. Shailey Prasad - pras0054@umn.edu

Summary: 

The University of Minnesota has a long-standing research relationship with multiple colleges at Makerere University (Infectious Disease Institute, College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, and the College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources, and Biosecurity) starting in 2005 and with Mbarara University starting in 2010 regarding neuro-infectious disease research. The University of Minnesota has enabled training for 7 PhDs and 13 master’s Ugandan trainees through nested projects of NIH-sponsored clinical research. Since 2012, 20 Fogarty Scholars and Fellows have been trained in this capacity through 1-year global health fellowships (1 at MUST, 19 at Makerere). Additionally, three Ugandan principal investigators have obtained independent NIH funding. 

The University of Minnesota has strong resources to support research fellows through an extensive network of researchers at all three institutions committed to advancing research training.

 Uganda / UJMT / Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • ID epidemiology particularly STIs, tuberculosis, acute febrile illness
  • Emerging infections and surveillance
  • HIV, opportunistic infections, aging, and malignancies
  • Programmatic implementation science – research to practice and policy

Site Contacts:

Summary:

Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) is a Ugandan not-for-profit organization owned by Makerere University. Its mission is “to strengthen health systems in Africa, with a strong emphasis on infectious diseases, through Research and Capacity building.” IDI supports the Ministry of Health through providing both direct prevention, care and treatment services as well as technical assistance and health systems strengthening support in over 70 districts of Uganda. IDI has established long term international research collaborations with major academic centres worldwide (e.g., JHU, Harvard Medical School, UCSF, and many others) which provide a widening global dimension to research at IDI. IDI also participates in international networks such as such as the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS: East Africa network (IeDEA); the East African Consortium for Clinical Research (EACCR), a European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)-supported initiative; and Training Health Researchers into Vocational Excellence in East Africa (THRiVE), a Welcome Trust funded initiative (under the Makerere University umbrella). 

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Uganda based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • ID epidemiology particularly STIs, tuberculosis, acute febrile illness
  • Emerging infections and surveillance
  • HIV, opportunistic infections, aging, and malignancies
  • Programmatic implementation science – research to practice and policy
 Uganda / UJMT / Makerere University

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • Cancer
  • Child health
  • Communicable diseases (both non-HIV and HIV/AIDS)
  • Noncommunicable diseases 
  • Neurologic disorders
  • Trauma and injury
  • Women’s health
  • Pulmonary health

Site Contacts:

Summary:

The Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS) is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Africa, with over 40,000 students. It is the leading institution for medical instruction and research in the East, Central and Southern Africa (excluding South Africa). MakCHS has a strong track record of successful collaborative research with local, American and European universities and institutions and has participated in many of the early trials of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria interventions in the region.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Uganda based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Cancer
  • Child health
  • Communicable diseases (both non-HIV and HIV/AIDS)
  • Noncommunicable diseases 
  • Neurologic disorders
  • Trauma and injury
  • Women’s health
  • Pulmonary health
 

 

Noncommunicable Diseases

Ghana / GloCal / University of Ghana (UG)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal) 

Areas of Focus:

  • infectious and non-communicable diseases
  • mental health
  • climate change
  • maternal and child health/nutrition
  • nutrition and child development
  • blood safety and availability

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

For nearly 30 years, the University of Ghana has collaborated with UC Davis in research and capacity building: many key studies in maternal and child nutrition have been completed or are underway in Ghana, and several Ghanaians have received their Ph.D. from UC Davis and have returned to UG or continued to work in the international arena. UCSF has also recently started some collaborative projects in Ghana on person-centered maternity care and COVID-19 effects on health care workers.

UG faculty's research areas include infectious and non-communicable diseases, mental health, climate change, maternal and child health and nutrition, nutrition and child development, and blood safety and availability. Elements that make UG a strong partner include:

  • Office of Research, Innovation and Development (ORID) which promotes, coordinates, and facilitates research activities, as well as manages external research funds.
  • International Programs Office (IPO) coordinates and promotes relations with international students and scholars. It has a variety of services, including assistance with accommodation, immigration issues, and local culture.

UG also collaborates with several other research institutions, such as the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research; Centre for Tropical, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics; the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens; the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement; and the West African Genetic Medicine Centre (WAGMC).

 Ghana / Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

U.S. Partner: University of Michigan

Areas of Focus:

  • Understanding late identification of neonatal jaundice
  • Epidemiology and surveillance of neonatal birth asphyxia
  • Identifying maternal and neonatal near-misses
  • Community-based knowledge and attitudes toward newborn mortality
Site Contacts:  Summary:While child mortality (deaths under age 5) have dropped significantly in recent years, neonatal mortality (deaths within the first 28 days after birth) remains a challenge in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Neonatal deaths make up nearly half of all under 5 childhood mortality, and deaths within the first 7 days of life make up half of all neonatal deaths. Thus, the first few days after delivery are critical to improving neonatal outcomes. This long-standing collaboration takes place at a medium-sized government hospital that refers to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.
 Ghana / UJMT/ Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • NCDs
  • Stroke prevention and treatment
  • Hypertension

Site Contacts: Fred Stephen Sarfo – stephensarfo78@gmail.com

Summary: 

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST) was established in 1952 and is situated in Kumasi, Ghana. The core mandate of the College of Health Sciences is to train medical doctors, allied health workers and biomedical scientists for Ghana.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ghanian based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • NCDs
  • Stroke prevention and treatment
  • Hypertension
 Ghana / UJMT / Noguchi Memorial Institute

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • Vector-borne diseases, including malaria, lymphatic filariasis, guinea worm, and avian influenza
  • CDs, including diabetes mellitus and CVD
  • Micronutrients
  • Infant and maternal mortality
  • Sickle cell disease
  • Allergies and environmental pollution
  • HIV/AIDS and TB

Site Contacts: Michael Wilson – MWilson@noguchi.ug.edu.gh

Summary:

The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), established in 1979 as a semi-autonomous institute of the University of Ghana, is the country’s leading biomedical research facility. The Institute spearheads biomedical research in Ghana on diseases of public health importance in the country and the African region. NMIMR focuses primarily on research into infectious diseases, including malaria, soil transmitted helminthiasis and schistosomiasis, filariasis lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, buruli ulcer, poliomyelitis, sexually transmitted infections, viral hemorrhagic fevers, diarrheal diseases, and vaccine-preventable diseases.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ghanian based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Vector-borne diseases, including malaria, lymphatic filariasis, guinea worm, and avian influenza
  • NCDs, including diabetes mellitus and CVD
  • Micronutrients
  • Infant and maternal mortality
  • Sickle cell disease
  • Allergies and environmental pollution
  • HIV/AIDS and TB
 Malawi / UJMT / JHU – Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS)

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus: 

  • Child health
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Noncommunicable diseases
  • Women’s health

Site Contacts: Sufia Dadabhai - sufia@jhu.edu

Summary: 

The JHU research and training collaboration started in 1989 and since then, research and training activities have steadily increased with substantial achievements in infrastructure development.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Malawi based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Child health 
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Noncommunicable diseases
  • Women’s health
 Peru / GHES / Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH)

U.S. Partner: Global Health Equity Scholars (Yale University)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV and aging
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • Musculoskeletal health
  • Osteoporosis
  • Sarcopenia
  • Parasitic diseases
  • Malaria
  • Leptospirosis
  • Immunology, molecular biology

Site Contacts: 

  • Evelyn Hsieh, MD, PhDc, U.S. Mentor (SPH), Associate Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology); Chief of Rheumatology, VA Connecticut Healthcare System; Program Director, CMB Global Health Leadership Development Program; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health, Yale University - evelyn.hsieh@yale.edu
  • Joseph Vinetz, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FASTMH, BS, U.S. Mentor (LID), Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Anthropology, and Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health, Yale University - joseph.vinetz@yale.edu

Summary:

Peru is a country of enormous geographic, cultural, and biologic diversity. Located in the capital city of Lima, the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) is the leading biomedical teaching and research institution in the country. Since its foundation, UPCH´s scientific contributions have significantly influenced national public health policies and promoted development and innovation in Peru. Opportunities are available to work at the UPCH School of Public Health and Administration (SPHA) or the Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollos (LID). 

The School of Public Health and Administration (FASPA, acronym in Spanish), founded in 1998, is the only School of Public Health in Peru. Its mission is to generate, apply and disseminate knowledge relevant to health promotion, disease prevention and treatment in human populations. FASPA is committed to improving health management, health policies and health economics and considers research to be a key strategy to design effective policy and intervention programs. The SPHA mentor, Dr. Garcia, has served as Dean of FASPA, Director of the Instituto Nacional de Salud (Peruvian National Institute of Health), and most recently as the Minister of Health of Peru. The U.S. mentor affiliated with SPHA, Dr. Hsieh, is an Associate Professor at the Yale School of Medicine (Rheumatology) and School of Public Health (Chronic Disease Epidemiology). Her recent work focuses on prevention of osteoporosis and fractures in countries undergoing economic transition, and the intersection between HIV and non-communicable disease. Drs. Hsieh and Dr. Garcia have collaborated on epidemiological, prevention and health services research projects related to women’s health topics including sexually transmitted infections, osteoporosis, and aging-related comorbidities among Peruvian women with HIV (osteoporosis, fractures, and sarcopenia). This site strives to expand knowledge in these key areas of health, which are understudied in Peru and across much of Latin America. Current or recent projects include:

  • Musculoskeletal Outcomes among Women Aging with HIV in Peru
  • Health-Related Quality of Life among Women Aging with HIV and Peru
  • Capacity building for NCD care for the HIV positive population of Peru: a national assessment of knowledge and resources among HIV providers
  • Expanding the toolbox for prevention of sarcopenia and osteoporosis among Peruvian People with HIV: A validation study

The Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollos (LID) contributes to the scientific and technological progress of Peru through its state-of-the-art facilities that support cutting edge research and innovation. The U.S. mentor affiliated with LID, Dr. Vinetz, has worked in Peru since 1998, studying leptospirosis and malaria. Dr. Vinetz maintains a laboratory on the UPCH Faculty of Sciences campus and a fully functioning field laboratory. Dr. Gamboa leads the Malaria Research Group at LID-UPCH. This group has three independent laboratories that are the most modern facilities of their kind in Peru (outside of government). Facilities at LID include laboratories for molecular/cellular biology, bioinformatics and immunology. The Malaria Research Group also has laboratory facilities in Iquitos, which houses an insectary specialized in rearing mosquito species involved in malaria transmission. Drs. Vinetz and Gamboa have been collaborators for over 14 years. Together, they manage the Amazonian International Center of Excellence in Malaria Research (ICEMR), which focuses on utilizing a comprehensive approach to understanding the biological features of Amazonian malaria towards the ultimate goal of regional control and elimination of Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax.

Current research projects and focus areas include:

  • Amazonian Center of Excellence in Malaria Research (Amazonia ICEMR): The goal of this project is to continue supporting the Amazonia ICEMR in its effort to discover underlying principles and develop new tools to go beyond conventional malaria control activities towards regional malaria elimination.
  • Translational Research Development for Endemic Infectious Diseases of Amazonia: The goal of this project is to continue supporting the Global Infectious Disease Training program at UPCH, which aims to enhance tropical infectious disease research capacity in Peru by focusing on research disciplines and diseases relevant to the Amazon region of Peru.
  • Immunology of asympomatic malaria and the immunity effects in plasmodium transmission
  • Study of the fundamental biology of malaria resilience in the Amazon - characterize human populations of malaria transmission reservoirs (epidemiology), study the molecular ecology and transmission biology of human-Anopheles interactions, and investigate molecular and cellular mechanisms of non-sterilizing clinical immunity to malaria caused by P. vivax and P. falciparum.
  • Leptospira and Leptospirosis – collaboration of multidisciplinary studies of Leptospira and leptospirosis, focused on clinical field studies of acute undifferentiated febrile illness to characterize epidemiological and clinical features of leptospirosis and ultimately deploy new novel molecular and point-of-care diagnostic tests.
 Peru / GloCal / Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal)

Areas of Focus:

  • Emerging, infectious, tropical, and non-communicable diseases
  • Maternal and child health
  • sexual and reproductive health
  • mental health
  • substance abuse 
  • climate change 
  • one health

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) is the premier biomedical sciences university and research center in Peru and a recognized leader in Latin America, leading all but one of the 28 currently active NIH grants in Peru according to the NIH Reporter. UPCH world-class global health research generates unique mentored research training opportunities for prospective fellows on emerging, infectious, tropical and non-communicable diseases, maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health, mental health, substance use/abuse, climate change and one health.

UPCH has had decades of productive research collaborations with multiple UC campuses such as with UCLA/UCSF on HIV/AIDS/STDs (Coates, Kegeles, Clark & Konda), malaria with UCSD (Winzeler & Vinetz) and One Health and emerging diseases with UC Davis (Foley), among many others. NIH research grants support most of this work, and efforts are complemented with multiple D43 training grants on both non-communicable and HIV/non-HIV infectious diseases, and also fellowship grants.

UPCH has field, clinical, laboratory, computational and animal experimentation facilities spread across Peru’s mega-diverse ecological regions: the Amazon Basin, highlands up to 22,000 feet and 2400 kilometers of Pacific coast. Additional world-class resources and assets are brought by a broad network of Peruvian and foreign partners including among many others the US Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6), Asociación Civil Vía Libre and Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía.

UPCH fellows can attend on-site or virtual coursework on research methods, biostatistics, epidemiology, bioethics and responsible conduct of research, in addition to Epidemiology master’s and doctorates, programs mostly developed by a longstanding NIH D43 training grant. Highly-capable institutional and GloCal-dedicated research administration teams support our activities. All research follows rigorous, Peruvian Ministry of Health-approved COVID-19 biosafety protocols.

 Peru / HBNU / Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia  

U.S. Partner: Boston University and Northwestern University

Areas of Focus:

  • Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
  • Adolescent Health
  • Infectious Disease 
  • Mental Health 
  • Non-communicable Diseases

Site Contacts: Site Director: Patricia Garcia, Professor, School of Public Health, Cayetano Heredia University - pattyg@uw.edu

Summary:

In collaboration with Fogarty International Center, the consortium of Harvard University, Boston University, Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico (HBNU) is seeking to host a Fulbright – Fogarty fellow at the consortium’s site in Peru: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH).

Cayetano Heredia University located in Lima, Peru is considered one of the top medical schools in Peru and is one of the major producers and publishers of scientific research in the country. Founded in 1961 by a group of professors and students from the medical school of the four-century-old National University of San Marcos in Lima, Cayetano Heredia University has established numerous agreements and collaborative arrangements with leading institutions from all over the world.

 Uganda / ACHIEVE / Makerere University Department of Psychology

U.S. Partner: Washington University in St. Louis 

Areas of Focus:

  • Family and child health, maternal and reproductive health 
  • Gender-based violence 
  • Communicable and non-communicable disease epidemiology 
  • Environmental health, community engagement 
  • HIV prevention, care, and treatment

Site Contacts:

Summary:

The Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MaKCHS) is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Africa.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ugandan mentors to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Family and child health, maternal and reproductive health 
  • Gender-based violence 
  • Communicable and non-communicable disease epidemiology 
  • Environmental health, community engagement 
  • HIV prevention, care, and treatment
 Uganda / ACHIEVE / MildMay Uganda

U.S. Partner: Washington University in St. Louis 

Areas of Focus:

  • Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH
  • HIV Prevention, Care & treatment
  • Key populations
  • Infectious Diseases.
  • Non-Communicable Diseases.
  • Biomedical Research.
  • Dementia and Mental Health among others

Site Contacts:

Summary:

MildMay Uganda is a national Non-Government Organization established in Uganda in 1998 as a Centre of Excellence for provision of comprehensive HIV&AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and training services. Overtime, Mildmay Uganda has evolved and diversified its services specializing in delivery of comprehensive healthcare including Treatment Services; Health Systems Strengthening; Other Complementary Social Services; Health Training and Education; and Research.

Mildmay Research Centre Uganda (MRCU) is a subsidiary of Mildmay Uganda (MUg). MUg is a national indigenous, faith-based organization registered under Uganda’s law with the national NGO Registration Board as a non-government organization (NGO) with affiliates in the UK and Kenya. SINCE 1998, MUg has been modelling quality and sustainable prevention, care and treatment of HIV and other health priorities, using a family-centered approach together with training, education and research in Uganda. MUg pioneered specialist paediatric HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa and is one of the two paediatric palliative care Beacon Centres in Africa. For over 21 years now, MUg has been, and is a key player in the HIV epidemic response in Uganda providing prevention, care, treatment and Health Systems Strengthening services across several districts of Uganda and at its Center of Excellence (CoE). MUg has demonstrable capacity to pinpoint and focus her intervention to the most vulnerable people and deploys low cost models that high impact yet replicable. MUg is one of the National NGOs (NNGOs) operating sub-national programs that contribute significantly to national health outcomes and is currently the PEPFAR comprehensive implementing partner for Central Uganda (the region with highest HIV prevalence of 7.2% compared to 5.8% national prevalence). Mildmay Uganda management systems, including her laboratory, are accredited for ISO 9001:2015 and 15189:2012 respectively.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ugandan mentors to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH
  • HIV Prevention, Care & treatment
  • Key populations
  • Infectious Diseases. 
  • Non-Communicable Diseases. 
  • Biomedical Research. 
  • Dementia and Mental Health among others
 Uganda / GHES / Makerere University

U.S. Partner: Global Health Equity Scholars (Yale University)

Areas of Focus:

  • Lung health
  • Tuberculosis
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • HIV
  • Implementation science

Site Contacts:

  • Luke Davis, MD, U.S. Mentor (U-TIRC), Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Pulmonary); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health, Yale University - lucian.davis@yale.edu
  • Ryan Borg, Program Manager, Yale School of Public Health - ryan.borg@yale.edu

Summary:

The Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MaKCHS) is one of the leading medical universities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its mission is to improve the health of people of Uganda through innovative teaching and research and the provision of services responsive to societal needs. Opportunities are available at the following sites operating within MaKCHS.

Uganda TB Implementation Research Consortium (U-TIRC) & World Alliance for Lung and Intensive Care Medicine in Uganda (Walimu)

The World Alliance for Lung and Intensive Care Medicine in Uganda (Walimu) is a non-governmental institution that has a memorandum of understanding with Makerere University and hosts the Uganda TB Implementation Research Consortium (U-TIRC). U-TIRC is an academic-public health partnership involving the Uganda Ministry of Health, Makerere, and several overseas universities including Yale, Johns Hopkins, New York University, and several campuses of the University of California. Walimu oversees and operates a large portfolio of research and implementation projects funded by the U.S. NIH and other governments, foundations, public health, and development agencies who sponsor research and implementation activities. Walimu also sponsors robust local training and capacity building initiatives through its own programs and by hosting individual fellowships. Scientifically, U-TIRC focuses on improving tuberculosis prevention, diagnostic evaluation, case finding, and linkage to care by undertaking high quality clinical, epidemiological and implementation science research. U-TIRC is particularly interested in the effects of comorbidities including HIV and chronic diseases, and in addressing the TB-HIV-NCD syndemic. 

Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases (UINCD)

The Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases (UINCD) is a Uganda-based research-to-policy consortium between faculty at Makerere University College of Health Sciences (Uganda) and Yale School of Medicine (U.S.), and leadership at Mulago National Referral Hospital (Uganda) and the Uganda Ministry of Health. The mission of UINCD is to build capacity in the realms of prevention, care, training, and research to enable the provision of effective and integrated care along the NCD management spectrum. While physically based in the capital city, Kampala, UINCD’s reach includes the entire country of Uganda. The breadth of UINCD’s work includes access to essential medicines; self-care for NCDs including heart failure, diabetes, hypertension, and mental illness; mobile health, and HIV-hypertension integration.

Examples of current and recent research projects include:

  • Implementation of PEN-Plus, a WHO-adopted integrated care strategy to increase the quality of services for severe chronic conditions at referral centers
  • Using mobile health to improve self-care among patients with heart failure
  • Integrated management of HIV and hypertension
  • Updating the Uganda Essential Medicine and Health Supplies List for cardiovascular disease and other common chronic conditions

Other features of this site include:

  • Infection Diseases Institute (IDI) is a Ugandan not-for-profit organization whose mission is to strengthen health systems in Africa, with a strong emphasis on infectious diseases, through research and capacity development. Established within Makerere University, the Institute provides care and treatment services to over 100,000 people living with HIV in urban and rural settings in Uganda. IDI is also a national referral center for complicated cases of HIV. IDI leads a weekly research forum that serves as a regular venue for scientific exchange on HIV-TB research questions, among other topics.
  • The Makerere Lung Institute (MLI) is a research institute that was established in 2015 to respond to the epidemic of lung diseases in Uganda and other similar resource-limited settings. MLI seeks to conduct lung health research that integrates disease prevention, clinical care, and training. MLI hosts a monthly Day of Lung Science, which provides a forum for presentation of and feedback on scientific research by local investigators active in clinical and implementation research in TB in Uganda.
  • The Integrated Biorepository of H3Africa Uganda (IBRH3AU) is a biorepository located at Makerere College of Health Sciences with state-of-the-art facilities with the capacity to store over 400,000 samples. Its mission is to provide researchers with relevant genomic analyses to test new diagnostics, personalize treatment options and develop new treatment methods. The Director is Dr. Moses Joloba, Dean of the School of Biomedical Sciences at Makerere University, and an expert in translational research in TB. Services offered include processing of peripheral blood mononuclear cells, storage of serum, plasma, and whole blood, as well as culture isolates in an affiliated BSL3 laboratory.
  • The Mycobacteriology Laboratory is a state-of-the-art facility that is the only laboratory at Makerere University accredited to handle highly infectious agents. Equipment available in the BSL-3 laboratory includes a high containment area, a MGIT 960 automated culture machine; two level two bio-safety cabinets, CO2 incubators; inverted microscopes; refrigeration facilities; and an automated back-up generator system.
 Uganda / UJMT / Makerere University

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • Cancer
  • Child health
  • Communicable diseases (both non-HIV and HIV/AIDS)
  • Noncommunicable diseases 
  • Neurologic disorders
  • Trauma and injury
  • Women’s health
  • Pulmonary health

Site Contacts:

Summary:

The Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS) is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Africa, with over 40,000 students. It is the leading institution for medical instruction and research in the East, Central and Southern Africa (excluding South Africa). MakCHS has a strong track record of successful collaborative research with local, American and European universities and institutions and has participated in many of the early trials of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria interventions in the region.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Uganda based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Cancer
  • Child health
  • Communicable diseases (both non-HIV and HIV/AIDS)
  • Noncommunicable diseases 
  • Neurologic disorders
  • Trauma and injury
  • Women’s health
  • Pulmonary health
 Vietnam / GloCal / Hanoi Medical University (HMU)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV/AIDS
  • STIs
  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Addiction
  • Mental Health
  • Aging 
  • Non-Communicable diseases

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

Hanoi Medical University (HMU), established in 1902, is the oldest and largest health sciences university in Vietnam. HMU has a 400-bed teaching hospital and schools in medicine, nursing, public health, and traditional medicine. HMU has more than 70 academic departments and research units and about 1000 faculty members who have received their graduate training in Vietnam and/or abroad. It collaborates with universities all over the world for teaching and research.

The collaboration between HMU and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) started in 2011 with the Vietnam – HIV Addiction Technology Transfer Center (VHATTC) project, funded by SAMHSA with technical assistance from UCLA’s Integrated Substance Abuse Program. VHATTC (now renamed to Vietnam International Technology Transfer Center) continues to be a technical assistance resource for addiction professionals in Vietnam. In 2016, a Fogarty-funded training program on advanced epidemiological methods (NIH D43 TWW010057) for Vietnamese scholars was led by Dr. Li Li (UCLA). Collaboration on a study of antimicrobial resistance in STDs began in 2017, and continued with a study on STIs among PrEP users and antimicrobial resistance in N. gonorrhoeae (7R21AI157817-02). In 2020, NIDA funded HMU to work with Dr. Steven Shoptaw (UCLA) on a study to reduce methamphetamine use among methadone patients (R01DA050486).

With the continuing GloCal training program, HMU aims to develop more studies in important areas including HIV/AIDS, STIs, antimicrobial resistance, addiction, mental health, aging and non-communicable diseases.

 

 

Sexual Reproductive Health

Malawi / UJMT / UNC Project - Malawi

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV/AIDS including prevention, treatment, opportunistic infections and co-morbidities
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Surgery, trauma, injury prevention
  • Maternal and child health
  • Mental health
  • Cancer (breast, cervical, esophageal, Burkitt’s lymphoma, etc.)
  • Transfusion Medicine and Blood Donation Practices
  • Implementation research

Site Contacts: 

Summary:

UNC has been conducting HIV/STD research in Malawi since 1990 and officially established UNC Project-Malawi in 1999. UNC Project Malawi is a partnership with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) that broadly focuses on issues of importance to Malawians, namely reproductive health, HIV and STIs, oncology, trauma, burns, malaria, and TB clinical care, training, and research opportunities.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Malawi based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects:

  • HIV/AIDS including prevention, treatment, opportunistic infections and co-morbidities
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Surgery, trauma, injury prevention
  • Maternal and child health
  • Mental health
  • Cancer (breast, cervical, esophageal, Burkitt’s lymphoma, etc.)
  • Transfusion Medicine and Blood Donation Practices
  • Implementation research
 Peru / GloCal / Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal)

Areas of Focus:

  • Emerging, infectious, tropical, and non-communicable diseases
  • Maternal and child health
  • sexual and reproductive health
  • mental health
  • substance abuse 
  • climate change 
  • one health

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) is the premier biomedical sciences university and research center in Peru and a recognized leader in Latin America, leading all but one of the 28 currently active NIH grants in Peru according to the NIH Reporter. UPCH world-class global health research generates unique mentored research training opportunities for prospective fellows on emerging, infectious, tropical and non-communicable diseases, maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health, mental health, substance use/abuse, climate change and one health.

UPCH has had decades of productive research collaborations with multiple UC campuses such as with UCLA/UCSF on HIV/AIDS/STDs (Coates, Kegeles, Clark & Konda), malaria with UCSD (Winzeler & Vinetz) and One Health and emerging diseases with UC Davis (Foley), among many others. NIH research grants support most of this work, and efforts are complemented with multiple D43 training grants on both non-communicable and HIV/non-HIV infectious diseases, and also fellowship grants.

UPCH has field, clinical, laboratory, computational and animal experimentation facilities spread across Peru’s mega-diverse ecological regions: the Amazon Basin, highlands up to 22,000 feet and 2400 kilometers of Pacific coast. Additional world-class resources and assets are brought by a broad network of Peruvian and foreign partners including among many others the US Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6), Asociación Civil Vía Libre and Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía.

UPCH fellows can attend on-site or virtual coursework on research methods, biostatistics, epidemiology, bioethics and responsible conduct of research, in addition to Epidemiology master’s and doctorates, programs mostly developed by a longstanding NIH D43 training grant. Highly-capable institutional and GloCal-dedicated research administration teams support our activities. All research follows rigorous, Peruvian Ministry of Health-approved COVID-19 biosafety protocols.

 Uganda / ACHIEVE / Makerere University Department of Psychology

U.S. Partner: Washington University in St. Louis 

Areas of Focus:

  • Family and child health, maternal and reproductive health 
  • Gender-based violence 
  • Communicable and non-communicable disease epidemiology 
  • Environmental health, community engagement 
  • HIV prevention, care, and treatment

Site Contacts:

Summary:

The Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MaKCHS) is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Africa.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ugandan mentors to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Family and child health, maternal and reproductive health 
  • Gender-based violence 
  • Communicable and non-communicable disease epidemiology 
  • Environmental health, community engagement 
  • HIV prevention, care, and treatment
 Uganda / ACHIEVE / MildMay Uganda

U.S. Partner: Washington University in St. Louis 

Areas of Focus:

  • Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH
  • HIV Prevention, Care & treatment
  • Key populations
  • Infectious Diseases.
  • Non-Communicable Diseases.
  • Biomedical Research.
  • Dementia and Mental Health among others

Site Contacts:

Summary:

MildMay Uganda is a national Non-Government Organization established in Uganda in 1998 as a Centre of Excellence for provision of comprehensive HIV&AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and training services. Overtime, Mildmay Uganda has evolved and diversified its services specializing in delivery of comprehensive healthcare including Treatment Services; Health Systems Strengthening; Other Complementary Social Services; Health Training and Education; and Research.

Mildmay Research Centre Uganda (MRCU) is a subsidiary of Mildmay Uganda (MUg). MUg is a national indigenous, faith-based organization registered under Uganda’s law with the national NGO Registration Board as a non-government organization (NGO) with affiliates in the UK and Kenya. SINCE 1998, MUg has been modelling quality and sustainable prevention, care and treatment of HIV and other health priorities, using a family-centered approach together with training, education and research in Uganda. MUg pioneered specialist paediatric HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa and is one of the two paediatric palliative care Beacon Centres in Africa. For over 21 years now, MUg has been, and is a key player in the HIV epidemic response in Uganda providing prevention, care, treatment and Health Systems Strengthening services across several districts of Uganda and at its Center of Excellence (CoE). MUg has demonstrable capacity to pinpoint and focus her intervention to the most vulnerable people and deploys low cost models that high impact yet replicable. MUg is one of the National NGOs (NNGOs) operating sub-national programs that contribute significantly to national health outcomes and is currently the PEPFAR comprehensive implementing partner for Central Uganda (the region with highest HIV prevalence of 7.2% compared to 5.8% national prevalence). Mildmay Uganda management systems, including her laboratory, are accredited for ISO 9001:2015 and 15189:2012 respectively.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ugandan mentors to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH
  • HIV Prevention, Care & treatment
  • Key populations
  • Infectious Diseases. 
  • Non-Communicable Diseases. 
  • Biomedical Research. 
  • Dementia and Mental Health among others
 Uganda / INSIGHT / Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST)

U.S. Partner: Integrated Network of Scholars in Global Health Research Training (INSIGHT), University of Alabama at Birmingham

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV care
  • HIV prevention
  • Reproductive health
  • health sciences education
  • human medicine
  • nursing
  • medical laboratory sciences
  • pharmacy
  • pharmaceutical sciences
  • physiotherapy
  • interdisciplinary healthcare delivery through community-based education, research, and service (COBERS)

Site Contacts:

Summary:

Mbarara University of Science & Technology (commonly known as MUST), a public university in Uganda commenced student intake and instruction in 1989 and is one of the ten public universities and degree-awarding institutions in the country. MUST is accredited by the National Council for Higher Education in Uganda and has acclaimed national and international recognition for best practices in outreach and community relations from Association of Commonwealth Universities, European Union and the Civil Society of Uganda. The Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital (MRRH) is the sole teaching hospital for the MUST Medical School and is the referral hospital for the Western Region of Uganda. The 320 bed referral hospital provides outpatient and inpatient clinical care, training, and research infrastructure in southwestern Uganda - a region 36,870 square kilometers in size with a population of over 5 million representing about 18% of the national population. MRRH houses the Immune Suppression Syndrome Clinic (ISS Clinic), a PEPFAR-funded clinical site, which serves as the hospital’s HIV outpatient clinic.

MUST Faculty is dedicated to training a diverse group of future leaders in academic health professions and clinical practice who will combine clinical medicine with the discovery of new knowledge through research.  MUST has an Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Laboratory providing diagnostic microbiology services for improved patient care. With the recent addition of upgraded workstations, storage units, air conditioning, a bio-safety cabinet, a laboratory refrigerator, an incubator 405L, a bacticinerator, turbidity meter, and a magnetic stirrer, the lab is classified as a Bio-safety Level II. The MUST Research Laboratory is a certified Clinical and Research Laboratory which implements Good Clinical Practice protocols for the processing, storage and testing of laboratory specimens for the adjacent MRRH hospital. The laboratory also houses a Beckman Coulter AU480 chemistry analyzer, Thermo Fischer Scientific Applied Biosystems Viia7 Real-time PCR assay, laminar flow biosafety hoods, three centrifuges, and an additional bank of freezers with backup generator power source. With a modern laboratory of this nature both MRRH and MUST serve students, researchers and patients in the entire western Uganda region. 

The MUST Global Health Research Collaboration has worked for over 16 years to develop partnerships with Massachusetts General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, UAB, University of Minnesota, Lund University, and many others.  These partnerships have helped the MUST Research Collaboration to grow extensive research infrastructure in Mbarara. 

The Collaboration occupies fully equipped and independent research space adjacent to MUST and MRRH for conduct of clinical research. Collaboration facilities include enrollment and interview rooms, an independent phlebotomy and specimen collection room, staff offices, and meeting space as well as 24-hour internet access (with 4G modem data management packages), remote library access, and remote study database access for data entry, quality assurance, and analysis. 

 Uganda / INSIGHT / Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation-Uganda (Baylor-Uganda)

U.S. Partner: Baylor College of Medicine  

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV
  • TB
  • Orphans and Vulnerable Children services  
  • Clinical trials and implementation research 
  • Global Health Security 
  • Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Newborn Child and Adolescent health 

Site Contacts:

Summary:

Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation-Uganda (Baylor-Uganda) is a not-for-profit organization established in 2006. The organization is a leading provider of integrated high quality and high impact HIV, TB, Maternal and Child Health services, health professional training, and research in Uganda. Baylor-Uganda has grown its portfolio from managing only 3 grants (< 1 million USD) in 2006 to over 34 grants worth about 40 million USD. Other program areas include Global Health security, nutrition, and social support to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). The research directorate conducts clinical trials (industry including vaccines), implementation research, and cohort studies. 

Baylor Uganda is headquartered at Mulago Hospital where it runs a Pediatric and Adolescent family-centered HIIV/AIDS/TB Clinic with close to 8500 clients. Under comprehensive HIV programs, Baylor-Uganda supports the Ministry of Health, 3 Regional Referral Hospitals, and 47 District Local Governments through a health system strengthening approach to include combination prevention strategies (PreP, VMMC), HIV testing services, MNCH, HIV care & treatment. In 2022, the organization’s programs supported over 420 health facilities reaching 217,000 clients on ART in the Kampala, Fort Portal, Hoima, and Mbale regions – as a result, we reached 961000 persons with HIV testing services, 406000 pregnant women with PMTCT services, 25000 OVC, 17000 TB patients and 38500 KPs.

The Baylor Uganda call center (National Pediatric, and Adolescent HIV/AIDS/TB Call center [NAPAC]) provides consultative technical support services to health workers across the country and the communities in pediatrics and adolescent HIV/AIDS/TB management and HIV self-testing. The call center also provides counseling services support to study participants. 

The Global Health Security (GHS) program works collaboratively with the Ministry of Health to promote its mandate in policy formulation and oversight role for combating epidemics in Uganda. The program has been very instrumental in the detection, prevention, and control of the COVID-19 and Ebola epidemics in Uganda. 

 Uganda / UJMT / Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • ID epidemiology particularly STIs, tuberculosis, acute febrile illness
  • Emerging infections and surveillance
  • HIV, opportunistic infections, aging, and malignancies
  • Programmatic implementation science – research to practice and policy

Site Contacts:

Summary:

Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) is a Ugandan not-for-profit organization owned by Makerere University. Its mission is “to strengthen health systems in Africa, with a strong emphasis on infectious diseases, through Research and Capacity building.” IDI supports the Ministry of Health through providing both direct prevention, care and treatment services as well as technical assistance and health systems strengthening support in over 70 districts of Uganda. IDI has established long term international research collaborations with major academic centres worldwide (e.g., JHU, Harvard Medical School, UCSF, and many others) which provide a widening global dimension to research at IDI. IDI also participates in international networks such as such as the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS: East Africa network (IeDEA); the East African Consortium for Clinical Research (EACCR), a European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)-supported initiative; and Training Health Researchers into Vocational Excellence in East Africa (THRiVE), a Welcome Trust funded initiative (under the Makerere University umbrella). 

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Uganda based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • ID epidemiology particularly STIs, tuberculosis, acute febrile illness
  • Emerging infections and surveillance
  • HIV, opportunistic infections, aging, and malignancies
  • Programmatic implementation science – research to practice and policy
 Vietnam / GloCal / Hanoi Medical University (HMU)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV/AIDS
  • STIs
  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Addiction
  • Mental Health
  • Aging 
  • Non-Communicable diseases

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

Hanoi Medical University (HMU), established in 1902, is the oldest and largest health sciences university in Vietnam. HMU has a 400-bed teaching hospital and schools in medicine, nursing, public health, and traditional medicine. HMU has more than 70 academic departments and research units and about 1000 faculty members who have received their graduate training in Vietnam and/or abroad. It collaborates with universities all over the world for teaching and research.

The collaboration between HMU and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) started in 2011 with the Vietnam – HIV Addiction Technology Transfer Center (VHATTC) project, funded by SAMHSA with technical assistance from UCLA’s Integrated Substance Abuse Program. VHATTC (now renamed to Vietnam International Technology Transfer Center) continues to be a technical assistance resource for addiction professionals in Vietnam. In 2016, a Fogarty-funded training program on advanced epidemiological methods (NIH D43 TWW010057) for Vietnamese scholars was led by Dr. Li Li (UCLA). Collaboration on a study of antimicrobial resistance in STDs began in 2017, and continued with a study on STIs among PrEP users and antimicrobial resistance in N. gonorrhoeae (7R21AI157817-02). In 2020, NIDA funded HMU to work with Dr. Steven Shoptaw (UCLA) on a study to reduce methamphetamine use among methadone patients (R01DA050486).

With the continuing GloCal training program, HMU aims to develop more studies in important areas including HIV/AIDS, STIs, antimicrobial resistance, addiction, mental health, aging and non-communicable diseases.

 Vietnam / UJMT / UNC Project Vietnam

U.S. Partner: 

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV in at risk populations including men who have sex with men and people who inject drugs
  • Substance abuse
  • Alcohol reduction interventions
  • Implementation research
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Mental health
  • HIV comorbidities including HCV and TB

Site Contacts:

Summary:

UNC Project Vietnam site in Hanoi has been operational since 2001. UNC has invested in enhanced local clinical, laboratory, and pharmacy capacity to meet international QA standards for conducting investigational drug trials in Vietnam. UNC has established Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with the 198 Hospital, Hanoi Medical University (HMU), Vietnam Authority for AIDS control, and Bach Mai Hospital. UNC has two main research sites in Hanoi: Hanoi Medical University and National Lung Hospital. Our primary partners for all research and training activities are governmental institutions within the Ministry of Health (MOH), including the Vietnam Authority of HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC), the primary agency responsible for overseeing and implementing HIV-related programs and policy in Vietnam. Our success over the years has been based on transparency with the VAAC and the alignment of our activities with Vietnam’s research priorities. Our strong research collaborations and infrastructure position the Vietnam site well to access at risk populations with and without HIV, including people who inject drugs, men who have sex with men, transgender women, HBV-infected individuals, and TB patients, as well as access to HIV-infected individuals at ART clinics.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Vietnam based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • HIV in at risk populations including men who have sex with men and people who inject drugs
  • Substance abuse
  • Alcohol reduction interventions
  • Implementation research
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Mental health
  • HIV comorbidities including HCV and TB
 

 

Tuberculosis

Ghana / UJMT / Noguchi Memorial Institute

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • Vector-borne diseases, including malaria, lymphatic filariasis, guinea worm, and avian influenza
  • CDs, including diabetes mellitus and CVD
  • Micronutrients
  • Infant and maternal mortality
  • Sickle cell disease
  • Allergies and environmental pollution
  • HIV/AIDS and TB

Site Contacts: Michael Wilson – MWilson@noguchi.ug.edu.gh

Summary:

The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), established in 1979 as a semi-autonomous institute of the University of Ghana, is the country’s leading biomedical research facility. The Institute spearheads biomedical research in Ghana on diseases of public health importance in the country and the African region. NMIMR focuses primarily on research into infectious diseases, including malaria, soil transmitted helminthiasis and schistosomiasis, filariasis lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, buruli ulcer, poliomyelitis, sexually transmitted infections, viral hemorrhagic fevers, diarrheal diseases, and vaccine-preventable diseases.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ghanian based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Vector-borne diseases, including malaria, lymphatic filariasis, guinea worm, and avian influenza
  • NCDs, including diabetes mellitus and CVD
  • Micronutrients
  • Infant and maternal mortality
  • Sickle cell disease
  • Allergies and environmental pollution
  • HIV/AIDS and TB
 Malawi / INSIGHT / Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation – Malawi (Baylor Foundation Malawi)

U.S. Partner: Baylor College of Medicine

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV  
  • TB  
  • Cancer  
  • Maternal Health  

Site Contacts:

Summary:

The Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation – Malawi (Baylor Foundation Malawi) has worked in partnership with the Malawi Government in the Health Sector since 2005. We have three main areas of focus: service delivery, training and research, in that order of priority. Our original mission was to improve the health and lives of HIV-infected children and families through high quality, high impact, ethical, state-of-the-art comprehensive care and treatment, training of health professionals and clinical research.   

Baylor Foundation Malawi has now been operating in Malawi for nearly fifteen years and have broadened our mission to include maternal health care services, mainly at Ethel Mutharika Maternity Wing at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) and Area 25 Health Centre, pediatric oncology at KCH, pediatric emergency medicine at KCH and pediatric surgical and anaesthesia services at KCH. Through its main outreach arm, the Tingathe Program, Baylor Foundation Malawi assists the Ministry of Health in improving prevention of mother-to-child transmission, early infant diagnosis, and pediatric HIV care and treatment services through onsite mentorship teams in various districts of the country, but currently is working in six districts in Central and South Eastern Malawi: Salima, Lilongwe, Balaka, Mangochi, Machinga, and Phalombe.

 Peru / NPGH / Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas, Hospital Nacional Dos de Mayo, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana and nongovernmental organizations InterACTION Labs, IMPACTA and Selva Amazonica (The University of Washington-Peru collaborative

U.S. Partner: Northern Pacific Global Health Consortium (NPGH), University of Washington 

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV 
  • Zoonotic Infections
  • TB

Site Contacts: Roopa Sriram - ghfmgr@uw.edu

Summary:

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Peruvian mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  1. Claverito Project (InterACTION Labs): A multidisciplinary effort to improve living standards in a “floating community” along the Amazon River in Iquitos. This project encompasses activities addressing improvements to the built environment, water and sanitation systems, improving general and oral health, enhancing health education, OneHealth and improving the environment.
  2. Tuberculous meningitis: A study to define the outcomes and improve diagnosis of TB meningitis in patients with and without HIV co-infection. 
  3. Cerebrovascular Diseases in Peru: A project to define the risk factors for stroke in various geographic regions of Peru and to work with the Peruvian national stroke group and government to increase prevention activities for susceptible populations. 
  4. Implementation Science in AIDS and TB:  A collaboration between UW, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, the NGO IMPACTA, and the Peruvian national HIV and TB control programs to enhance capacity to address the public health and scientific challenges of the evolving HIV and TB epidemic in Peru through clinical, implementation science, and health services research.
  5. “One World One Health” Zoonotic Infections Projects: A project based largely in the Amazon, activities include field research in leptospirosis, dengue, and plague – including a strong emphasis on working with the community to decrease risks for reducing risk for acquiring zoonotic infections, as well as capacity development of local diagnostic capacity in Iquitos, Peru.
  6. National scale-up of diagnostic and treatment services: cross-regional implementation study examining factors facilitating and hindering the expansion of rapid TB, syphilis and HIV testing and treatment in regions outside the capitol.
  7. Health financing models: comparison of vertical/targeted (i.e. funding earmarked for HIV, TB) and horizontal/systems-strengthening funding strategies on health care coverage and outcomes, including health equity gaps.
  8. Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics: working with multidisciplinary teams to assess the operating parameters and feasibility of introducing POCs for detection of infectious diseases or health conditions to different segments of the Peruvian populations.
  9. Emergency medicine: a variety of projects examining patient outcomes, patient flow, systems evaluation and epidemiology of common emergent diseases and conditions in a 2,000 bed tertiary care academic training hospital in Lima with a 110 bed emergency room.  Research projects could incude: nosocomial infections, management of sepsis or pneumonia, and implementation science related to emergency room operations.
 Peru / UJMT / Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH)

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • Tuberculosis research                                                     
  • Health effects of ambient air pollution
  • Maternal and neonatal health
  • Chronic diseases                                                         
  • Climate change

Site Contacts: Anders (Willy) Lescano – willy.lescano@upch.pe

Summary:

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) is the leading health sciences university in Peru and higher education institution in the training of professionals in the health, life and education sciences. For nearly 60 years, its graduates have contributed to the social and economic development of the country from various professional fields. UPCH is nationally and regionally renowned for excellence in research and training in the health field. Research Units and Laboratories within UPCH include the High Altitude Research Institute, the Tropical Medicine Institute “Alexander von Humboldt”, the Gerontology Institute, the Centers for Research and Development in Mental Health; Maternal and Child Health; Sexuality, AIDS and Society; Integral and Sustainable Development; Global Health; Environmental Sustainability; and the Latin American Center of Excellence in Climate Change and Health (Clima).

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Peru based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Modeling the effects of ambient air pollution on cardiovascular and pulmonary health outcomes in Lima, Peru
  • Addressing gaps and challenges in the management of hypertension in Puno, Peru
  • Evaluating the effects of household air pollution exposures on health outcomes across the lifespan
  • Addressing gaps in geographical and resource availability for the management of chronic diseases in Peru
  • Novel diagnostics of pediatric tuberculosis in Lima, Peru
  • Genomic research of adult tuberculosis to identify resistance in Lima, Peru
  • Epidemiology of norovirus and other diarrheal illness in Lima, Peru
  • Research in animal models of cysticercosis
  • Research in animal models for Chagas cardiomyopathy
  • Research into diagnostics and clinical outcomes of toxoplasmosis in patients with HIV in Lima and Iquitos, Peru
  • The HAPIN follow up trial in Puno, Peru, will evaluate the long-term effects of an 18-month clean fuel intervention on linear growth, lung function and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children. We will measure clinical outcomes, kitchen concentrations and personal exposures to PM2.5 once yearly and monitor all cooking stoves (LPG and biomass) continuously throughout the study period. We will examine whether health outcomes of intervention participants differ to those from control households through the child’s seventh birthday and conduct exposure-response analyses based on the stove use and PM2.5 exposure data during the intervention and subsequent follow-up period. As a secondary objective, we will also evaluate the effect of the intervention on participants’ cooking behaviors post-trial and identify factors that influence sustained LPG use. 
  • The ANDES randomized control trial will measure the effectiveness of having home-based community health workers lead interventions to reduce blood pressure and improve diabetes control in patients from under-resourced communities in Puno, Peru. The community health workers (CHWs) will act as a liaison between the public health system and community members to facilitate implementation and sustainability of this strategy. 
  • In partnership with Emory University and Johns Hopkins University, UPCH is conducting a Regional GEOHealth Hub study in Lima, Peru. This research is designed to enhance capacity to carry out research and provide data useful to policy makers on the association between Ambient Air Pollution (AAP) and cardiovascular, respiratory, and neurodegenerative health outcomes, including COVID-19 (incidence, mortality, and case-fatality) and Alzheimer’s where the association with AAP is not well established. We will study the association of traffic and air pollution in Lima and evaluate possible different mitigation strategies to reduce air pollution and related respiratory diseases. We also plan to develop a national model for PM2.5 for Peru as a whole, with a 5 km2 resolution, and a corresponding data base of hospital data and emergency room visits for all the major cities of the country. 
  • Another NIH- funded research study in Puno, Peru is focused on sleep disorders in residents of highland population. This project aims to evaluate the prevalence and severity of sleep disordered breathing at high altitude, and the exposure risk factors associated with cardiometabolic complications including diabetes and cardiovascular disease. This will be achieved through elucidating the associations between nocturnal hypoxemic severity and profiles with interstitial glucose concentrations; and by determining the impact of nocturnal supplemental oxygen on glucose profiles in a randomized crossover trial.
 Uganda / GHES / Makerere University

U.S. Partner: Global Health Equity Scholars (Yale University)

Areas of Focus:

  • Lung health
  • Tuberculosis
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • HIV
  • Implementation science

Site Contacts:

  • Luke Davis, MD, U.S. Mentor (U-TIRC), Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Pulmonary); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health, Yale University - lucian.davis@yale.edu
  • Ryan Borg, Program Manager, Yale School of Public Health - ryan.borg@yale.edu

Summary:

The Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MaKCHS) is one of the leading medical universities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its mission is to improve the health of people of Uganda through innovative teaching and research and the provision of services responsive to societal needs. Opportunities are available at the following sites operating within MaKCHS.

Uganda TB Implementation Research Consortium (U-TIRC) & World Alliance for Lung and Intensive Care Medicine in Uganda (Walimu)

The World Alliance for Lung and Intensive Care Medicine in Uganda (Walimu) is a non-governmental institution that has a memorandum of understanding with Makerere University and hosts the Uganda TB Implementation Research Consortium (U-TIRC). U-TIRC is an academic-public health partnership involving the Uganda Ministry of Health, Makerere, and several overseas universities including Yale, Johns Hopkins, New York University, and several campuses of the University of California. Walimu oversees and operates a large portfolio of research and implementation projects funded by the U.S. NIH and other governments, foundations, public health, and development agencies who sponsor research and implementation activities. Walimu also sponsors robust local training and capacity building initiatives through its own programs and by hosting individual fellowships. Scientifically, U-TIRC focuses on improving tuberculosis prevention, diagnostic evaluation, case finding, and linkage to care by undertaking high quality clinical, epidemiological and implementation science research. U-TIRC is particularly interested in the effects of comorbidities including HIV and chronic diseases, and in addressing the TB-HIV-NCD syndemic. 

Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases (UINCD)

The Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases (UINCD) is a Uganda-based research-to-policy consortium between faculty at Makerere University College of Health Sciences (Uganda) and Yale School of Medicine (U.S.), and leadership at Mulago National Referral Hospital (Uganda) and the Uganda Ministry of Health. The mission of UINCD is to build capacity in the realms of prevention, care, training, and research to enable the provision of effective and integrated care along the NCD management spectrum. While physically based in the capital city, Kampala, UINCD’s reach includes the entire country of Uganda. The breadth of UINCD’s work includes access to essential medicines; self-care for NCDs including heart failure, diabetes, hypertension, and mental illness; mobile health, and HIV-hypertension integration.

Examples of current and recent research projects include:

  • Implementation of PEN-Plus, a WHO-adopted integrated care strategy to increase the quality of services for severe chronic conditions at referral centers
  • Using mobile health to improve self-care among patients with heart failure
  • Integrated management of HIV and hypertension
  • Updating the Uganda Essential Medicine and Health Supplies List for cardiovascular disease and other common chronic conditions

Other features of this site include:

  • Infection Diseases Institute (IDI) is a Ugandan not-for-profit organization whose mission is to strengthen health systems in Africa, with a strong emphasis on infectious diseases, through research and capacity development. Established within Makerere University, the Institute provides care and treatment services to over 100,000 people living with HIV in urban and rural settings in Uganda. IDI is also a national referral center for complicated cases of HIV. IDI leads a weekly research forum that serves as a regular venue for scientific exchange on HIV-TB research questions, among other topics.
  • The Makerere Lung Institute (MLI) is a research institute that was established in 2015 to respond to the epidemic of lung diseases in Uganda and other similar resource-limited settings. MLI seeks to conduct lung health research that integrates disease prevention, clinical care, and training. MLI hosts a monthly Day of Lung Science, which provides a forum for presentation of and feedback on scientific research by local investigators active in clinical and implementation research in TB in Uganda.
  • The Integrated Biorepository of H3Africa Uganda (IBRH3AU) is a biorepository located at Makerere College of Health Sciences with state-of-the-art facilities with the capacity to store over 400,000 samples. Its mission is to provide researchers with relevant genomic analyses to test new diagnostics, personalize treatment options and develop new treatment methods. The Director is Dr. Moses Joloba, Dean of the School of Biomedical Sciences at Makerere University, and an expert in translational research in TB. Services offered include processing of peripheral blood mononuclear cells, storage of serum, plasma, and whole blood, as well as culture isolates in an affiliated BSL3 laboratory.
  • The Mycobacteriology Laboratory is a state-of-the-art facility that is the only laboratory at Makerere University accredited to handle highly infectious agents. Equipment available in the BSL-3 laboratory includes a high containment area, a MGIT 960 automated culture machine; two level two bio-safety cabinets, CO2 incubators; inverted microscopes; refrigeration facilities; and an automated back-up generator system.
 Uganda / GloCal / Uganda TB Implementation Research Consortium (U-TIRC)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal) 

Areas of Focus:

  • Tuberculosis 
  • Barriers to TB prevention and care

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

Established in 2008, the Uganda TB Implementation Research Consortium (U-TIRC) is a collaboration of research scientists at Makerere University led by Dr. Achilles Katamba, public health officials at the Uganda Ministry of Health and the Uganda National TB and Leprosy Programme in Uganda, and research scientists at UCSF and other institutions. U-TIRC focuses on improving TB diagnosis and care by undertaking high-quality clinical, epidemiological and implementation science research that seeks to identify barriers to TB prevention and care, develop strategies to address the barriers, and evaluate the uptake and impact of these strategies.

U-TIRC facilitates higher-level training of Ugandans through the NIH D43 Pulmonary Complications of AIDS Research Training (PART) program, which supports a number of trainees currently pursuing PhD or Masters degrees. PART trainees are paired with a mentor to work on a project focused on pulmonary complications of HIV/AIDS and are provided funding and mentorship support for up to 3 years. In addition, trainees have an opportunity to attend modular courses on mixed methods and implementation science (ImS). Both courses are organized in a series of four workshops spread over the course of one-year with work in-progress sessions in between.  The mixed methods course covers mixed methods design, data collection and analysis and manuscript writing. The ImS course covers introduction to ImS, individual/ organizational behavior change strategies; stakeholder engagement, implementation frameworks; study design and evaluation; and manuscript writing. U-TIRC currently supports 20 PART trainees and has over 25 alumni from the program.

In 2019, U-TIRC shifted its administrative base from Makerere University to WALIMU, a local non-government organization. Walimu/U-TIRC provides in-country logistical, personnel/human resources, grants management, accounting, procurement, customs clearance, computing/ information technology, secretarial and ancillary support. Walimu/U-TIRC maintains dedicated office space for investigators with access to telephone service, desktop computer, scanner, printer, and locked file cabinets. Conference call facilities to support interactions with US-based investigators and staff are available using a voice-over-internet protocol connection provided by Zoom. Current research staff include 10 project coordinators, 45 research assistants and 7 administrative staff. Current projects have developed research infrastructure at >40 health centers in 30 districts of the country.

 Uganda / INSIGHT / Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation-Uganda (Baylor-Uganda)

U.S. Partner: Baylor College of Medicine  

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV
  • TB
  • Orphans and Vulnerable Children services  
  • Clinical trials and implementation research 
  • Global Health Security 
  • Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Newborn Child and Adolescent health 

Site Contacts:

Summary:

Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation-Uganda (Baylor-Uganda) is a not-for-profit organization established in 2006. The organization is a leading provider of integrated high quality and high impact HIV, TB, Maternal and Child Health services, health professional training, and research in Uganda. Baylor-Uganda has grown its portfolio from managing only 3 grants (< 1 million USD) in 2006 to over 34 grants worth about 40 million USD. Other program areas include Global Health security, nutrition, and social support to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). The research directorate conducts clinical trials (industry including vaccines), implementation research, and cohort studies. 

Baylor Uganda is headquartered at Mulago Hospital where it runs a Pediatric and Adolescent family-centered HIIV/AIDS/TB Clinic with close to 8500 clients. Under comprehensive HIV programs, Baylor-Uganda supports the Ministry of Health, 3 Regional Referral Hospitals, and 47 District Local Governments through a health system strengthening approach to include combination prevention strategies (PreP, VMMC), HIV testing services, MNCH, HIV care & treatment. In 2022, the organization’s programs supported over 420 health facilities reaching 217,000 clients on ART in the Kampala, Fort Portal, Hoima, and Mbale regions – as a result, we reached 961000 persons with HIV testing services, 406000 pregnant women with PMTCT services, 25000 OVC, 17000 TB patients and 38500 KPs.

The Baylor Uganda call center (National Pediatric, and Adolescent HIV/AIDS/TB Call center [NAPAC]) provides consultative technical support services to health workers across the country and the communities in pediatrics and adolescent HIV/AIDS/TB management and HIV self-testing. The call center also provides counseling services support to study participants. 

The Global Health Security (GHS) program works collaboratively with the Ministry of Health to promote its mandate in policy formulation and oversight role for combating epidemics in Uganda. The program has been very instrumental in the detection, prevention, and control of the COVID-19 and Ebola epidemics in Uganda. 

 Vietnam / UJMT / UNC Project Vietnam

U.S. Partner: 

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV in at risk populations including men who have sex with men and people who inject drugs
  • Substance abuse
  • Alcohol reduction interventions
  • Implementation research
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Mental health
  • HIV comorbidities including HCV and TB

Site Contacts:

Summary:

UNC Project Vietnam site in Hanoi has been operational since 2001. UNC has invested in enhanced local clinical, laboratory, and pharmacy capacity to meet international QA standards for conducting investigational drug trials in Vietnam. UNC has established Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with the 198 Hospital, Hanoi Medical University (HMU), Vietnam Authority for AIDS control, and Bach Mai Hospital. UNC has two main research sites in Hanoi: Hanoi Medical University and National Lung Hospital. Our primary partners for all research and training activities are governmental institutions within the Ministry of Health (MOH), including the Vietnam Authority of HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC), the primary agency responsible for overseeing and implementing HIV-related programs and policy in Vietnam. Our success over the years has been based on transparency with the VAAC and the alignment of our activities with Vietnam’s research priorities. Our strong research collaborations and infrastructure position the Vietnam site well to access at risk populations with and without HIV, including people who inject drugs, men who have sex with men, transgender women, HBV-infected individuals, and TB patients, as well as access to HIV-infected individuals at ART clinics.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Vietnam based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • HIV in at risk populations including men who have sex with men and people who inject drugs
  • Substance abuse
  • Alcohol reduction interventions
  • Implementation research
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Mental health
  • HIV comorbidities including HCV and TB
 

 

Cancer

Ghana / UJMT / University of Ghana

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV
  • Cancer
  • Malaria

Site Contacts: Anthony Andrew Adjei – aaadjei@ug.edu.gh

Summary:

The University of Ghana Medical School within the College of Health Sciences trains an array of health professionals. All the institutions of the College undertake their clinical training and research in the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. Historically the hospital, established in 1923, was meant primarily for malaria treatment and management. It gained teaching hospital status in 1962, when the University of Ghana Medical School was established for the training of medical doctors. As the leading tertiary health facility in Ghana, the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has a long-standing history of teaching and medical research.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ghanian based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • HIV
  • Cancer
  • Malaria
 Jamaica / GHES / Caribbean Institute for Health Research, the University of the West Indies (CAHIR)

U.S. Partner: Global Health Equity Scholars (University of Arizona)

Areas of Focus:

  • Sickle cell disease
  • Cardiovascular diseases
  • Nutrition
  • Physicial activity
  • Cancer

Site Contacts: 

  • Marshall Tulloch-Reid, Site Mentor, Professor of Epidemiology & Endocrinology; Director of Epidemiology Research Unit, Caribbean Institute for Health Research - marshall.tullochreid@uwimona.edu.jm
  • Ryan Borg, Program Manager, Yale School of Public Health - ryan.borg@yale.edu

Summary:

The Caribbean Institute for Health Research (CAIHR), formerly the Tropical Medicine Research Institute, was established in 1999 at the University of the West Indies (UWI) to increase the output of research in major areas affecting the health of regional communities, increase the number of trained research scientists working in health, and to facilitate the uptake of research into policy, programs and practice, thereby contributing to improvement in the health status of Caribbean peoples. The Institute is active in research on chronic non-communicable diseases (e.g. hypertension, diabetes, haemoglobinopathies) and their risk factors and child development. It  and provides teaching at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels for medical, and nursing students as well as students of other health disciplines. CAIHR also offers doctoral programs in nutrition and epidemiology.

CAIHR consist of four units and brief descriptions of the units and their work are provided below:

  • Sickle Cell Unit (SCU): The SCU is the only comprehensive facility for the care of persons with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) in the English-speaking Caribbean. It seeks to improve the lives of individuals with haemoglobinopathies through rigorous biomedical research including clinical trials, education, and clinical care. It continues to be one of the largest such facilities world-wide with over 5000 patients registered in its database.
  • Tropical Metabolism Research Unit (TMRU): The TMRU has a clinical research facility laboratory as well as offices for clinical, research, administrative, and laboratory staff. Staff at the TMRU have expertise in the use of stable isotopes in metabolic investigations in infants and children. With a strong history of pioneering nutrition research the Unit is currently developing a research portfolio in climate and health.
  • Epidemiology Research Unit (ERU): The ERU was established in 1999 and is comprised of two groups ─ a Child Development Group with experience in cognitive evaluation and the development of interventions to improve child development and a Chronic Disease Group, focused on obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes etiology and interventions.
  • George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre (GA-CDRC): Created in 1992, the GA-CDRC is the only unit of CAIHR situated physically outside of Jamaica, in Barbados, the easternmost island of the Caribbean. The GA-CDRC responds to the emerging population health challenges experienced by the small island developing states of the Caribbean. It has a strong track record in undertaking population based epidemiological research, including research arising from data collected by the national surveillance system monitoring the burden of the major NCDs affecting Barbados ― incorporating the only multi-NCD registry in the Western hemisphere and has a special interest in issues affecting small island developing states including climate and food security.
 Malawi / INSIGHT / Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation – Malawi (Baylor Foundation Malawi)

U.S. Partner: Baylor College of Medicine

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV  
  • TB  
  • Cancer  
  • Maternal Health  

Site Contacts:

Summary:

The Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation – Malawi (Baylor Foundation Malawi) has worked in partnership with the Malawi Government in the Health Sector since 2005. We have three main areas of focus: service delivery, training and research, in that order of priority. Our original mission was to improve the health and lives of HIV-infected children and families through high quality, high impact, ethical, state-of-the-art comprehensive care and treatment, training of health professionals and clinical research.   

Baylor Foundation Malawi has now been operating in Malawi for nearly fifteen years and have broadened our mission to include maternal health care services, mainly at Ethel Mutharika Maternity Wing at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) and Area 25 Health Centre, pediatric oncology at KCH, pediatric emergency medicine at KCH and pediatric surgical and anaesthesia services at KCH. Through its main outreach arm, the Tingathe Program, Baylor Foundation Malawi assists the Ministry of Health in improving prevention of mother-to-child transmission, early infant diagnosis, and pediatric HIV care and treatment services through onsite mentorship teams in various districts of the country, but currently is working in six districts in Central and South Eastern Malawi: Salima, Lilongwe, Balaka, Mangochi, Machinga, and Phalombe.

 Malawi / UJMT / UNC Project - Malawi

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV/AIDS including prevention, treatment, opportunistic infections and co-morbidities
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Surgery, trauma, injury prevention
  • Maternal and child health
  • Mental health
  • Cancer (breast, cervical, esophageal, Burkitt’s lymphoma, etc.)
  • Transfusion Medicine and Blood Donation Practices
  • Implementation research

Site Contacts: 

Summary:

UNC has been conducting HIV/STD research in Malawi since 1990 and officially established UNC Project-Malawi in 1999. UNC Project Malawi is a partnership with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) that broadly focuses on issues of importance to Malawians, namely reproductive health, HIV and STIs, oncology, trauma, burns, malaria, and TB clinical care, training, and research opportunities.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Malawi based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects:

  • HIV/AIDS including prevention, treatment, opportunistic infections and co-morbidities
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Surgery, trauma, injury prevention
  • Maternal and child health
  • Mental health
  • Cancer (breast, cervical, esophageal, Burkitt’s lymphoma, etc.)
  • Transfusion Medicine and Blood Donation Practices
  • Implementation research
 Uganda / ACHIEVE / Uganda Cancer Institute

U.S. Partner: Washington University in St. Louis

Areas of Focus:

  • Improving pediatric oncology supportive care in a resource-limited setting
  • Cancer biology
  • Implementation science research
  • Oncology/Hematology
  • Sociobehavioral and socio-economic cancer research
  • Genomics
  • Cancer epidemiology and registration
  • Early detection and diagnosis

Site Contacts:

Summary:

The Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) was established in 1967 as a result of a collaboration between Makerere University, the Ministry of Health and the US National Cancer Institute. It was established as a treatment center for the then recently discovered Burkitt Lymphoma, although it was subsequently expanded to treat other cancers with the Opening of the Solid Tumor Centre (STC) in 1969. The UCI is recognized as the site of the description of Burkitt Lymphoma by Dr. Denis Burkitt and also one of the initial sites for the first use of combination chemotherapy for cancer, which now forms the basis of all cancer chemotherapy. 

The Institute is a comprehensive cancer center offering all types of cancer care including radiotherapy, surgery, chemotherapy and palliative and rehabilitative services. The Institute caters for patients of all ages. The Institute currently receives over 7400 incident cases of cancer every year of which about 700 are children (< 14 years of age). The commonest cancers are cervical cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer. Based on the Kampala Cancer Registry (KCR), Uganda has one of the highest cervical cancer incidence rates in the world with an age standardized rate of 47.5 per 100,000 which is three times higher than the global average estimate of 15.8 per 100,000. Prostate cancer is the commonest cancer in men with an annual incidence rate of 20.2% (2,288 cases). Childhood (pediatric) cancers comprise about 10% of the total annual incidence of cancers at the Uganda Cancer Institute. 

The Institute has also been designated as the East Africa Centre of Excellence in Oncology and is in the process of establish four regional cancer centers in different parts of Uganda. 

Summary of the site/ongoing research projects/topics of interest:

The Uganda Cancer Institute was started in the first place to provide room for research and clinical initiatives in cancer. The institute has over the past few years, built capacity to conduct high quality research including clinical trials, implementation science and community studies. Our research provides avenues for discovery but also additional treatment options for patients such as in clinical trials. 

Fellows coming to the Uganda Cancer Institute would be expected to work with U.S. and Ugandan mentors to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Improving pediatric oncology supportive care in a resource-limited setting
  • Cancer biology 
  • Implementation science research 
  • Oncology/Hematology
  • Sociobehavioral and socio-economic cancer research
  • Genomics
  • Cancer epidemiology and registration 
  • Early detection and diagnosis 
 Uganda / GloCal / Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV 
  • HIV related co-infection and cancers (clinical and lab based)

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

The Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) is a Ugandan non-government organization owned by Makerere University with the mission: “To strengthen health systems in Africa through research and capacity building”. IDI provides comprehensive services for over 250,000 people with HIV and other infectious diseases in Uganda. It is unique in resource-limited settings as a one-stop site for mentees providing access to patients, samples, CAP certified laboratory, translational laboratory, statistic support, a variety training and short courses.

The research program hosts more than 100 research projects. The program has several collaborations with institutions based in the US and Europe; IDI collaborates with UCSF on a U54 project on Kaposi Sarcoma (PI: Martin J). Key areas of research are HIV and HIV related co-infection and cancers (clinical and lab based). Fellows can leverage existing programs, particularly the HIV clinic located at the Mulago site which hosts specialized services and grants on sexual and reproductive health, mental health, non-communicable diseases, treatment failure, Kaposi sarcoma diagnostic, TB co-infections and two ongoing cohorts (along-term outcomes cohort and a geriatric cohort).

While working within their proposed projects, all scholars and research fellows at IDI are offered training through orientation, journal clubs, research fellows peer support club, a short course on scientific writing, monthly soft skills training (e.g. how to formulate a research questions, how to present, PowerPoint skills etc.), and a weekly research forum.

The research capacity building unit within the research department provides infrastructural support, management of finances, administrative and regulatory support and oversight, internal monitoring, and the IDI scholars community for peer support and exchange.

For trainees with lab-based projects, the research translational lab has a microbiology section (BACTEC machine, incubators, biosafety cabinets, fluorescent microscopes (iLED Primostar Zeiss & Zeiss mercury vapor lamp), a molecular section (RT-PCR machine (AB 7500), convectional PCR, bio-fire machines, Gene Xpert) , an immunology section (FACS Canto II flow cytometer, MiniMACs cell separator, Luminex MAGPIX, ELISA washer and plate reader), and a PK section (2 HPLC machines and a mass spectrophotometer). 

 Uganda / GloCal / Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal)

Areas of Focus:

Some of the important projects that could be leveraged for training future GloCal fellows include:

  • A Multisectoral Strategy to Address Persistent Drivers of the HIV Epidemic in East Africa.
  • Program for Resistance, Immunology, Surveillance, and Modeling of Malaria in Uganda.
  • Optimal chemo-preventive regimens to prevent malaria and improve birth outcomes in Uganda.
  • Integrated HIV/HTN, (Leveraging the HIV platform for hypertension control in Uganda).
  • Programs studying immune responses to malaria infection, antimalarial drug resistance and treatment efficacy, antiretroviral therapy initiation, HIV-associated pneumonia, and TB.

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

The Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC) is a not-for-profit organization, established in 2008 by Ugandan health scientists from Makerere University and the Ministry of Health (MoH) to conduct research in infectious diseases. IDRC has active memoranda of understanding with Makerere University, MoH and UCSF to conduct research in infectious diseases, including malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis. The mission of IDRC is to conduct high-quality research in infectious and other diseases of public health importance through collaboration and partnerships. Specific objectives including: I) To build capacity through training, technology advancement and improvement of local health service infrastructure; II) To conduct research in infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other diseases of public importance; III) To disseminate results of research and promote an evidence-based approach to policy making by linking researchers and policy makers; IV) To support the efforts of the Uganda Ministry of Health, Mulago Hospital and other health institutions in Uganda in prevention, care and treatment of infectious diseases.

The collaboration includes over thirty faculty at MU and UCSF, with a budget of $10 million and over 50 publications annually. Some of the important projects that could be leveraged for training future GloCal fellows include:

  • A Multisectoral Strategy to Address Persistent Drivers of the HIV Epidemic in East Africa.
  • Program for Resistance, Immunology, Surveillance, and Modeling of Malaria in Uganda.
  • Optimal chemo-preventive regimens to prevent malaria and improve birth outcomes in Uganda.
  • Integrated HIV/HTN, (Leveraging the HIV platform for hypertension control in Uganda).
  • Programs studying immune responses to malaria infection, antimalarial drug resistance and treatment efficacy, antiretroviral therapy initiation, HIV-associated pneumonia, and TB.

FIC, GloCal, K43 and G11 funded programs have trained and built capacity of over 80 Ugandan junior scientists and administrators. IDRC has facilities and resources with over 20 administrators to support trainees. The facilities include office space at its headquarters and research sites in Tororo, Mbale and Mbarara; a reference malaria laboratory; a research infrastructure for clinical, translational, and molecular research; and modern data management centers in Kampala and Tororo.

 Uganda / UJMT / Makerere University

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • Cancer
  • Child health
  • Communicable diseases (both non-HIV and HIV/AIDS)
  • Noncommunicable diseases 
  • Neurologic disorders
  • Trauma and injury
  • Women’s health
  • Pulmonary health

Site Contacts:

Summary:

The Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS) is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Africa, with over 40,000 students. It is the leading institution for medical instruction and research in the East, Central and Southern Africa (excluding South Africa). MakCHS has a strong track record of successful collaborative research with local, American and European universities and institutions and has participated in many of the early trials of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria interventions in the region.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Uganda based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Cancer
  • Child health
  • Communicable diseases (both non-HIV and HIV/AIDS)
  • Noncommunicable diseases 
  • Neurologic disorders
  • Trauma and injury
  • Women’s health
  • Pulmonary health
 

 

Implementation Research 

Ghana / UJMT/ Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • NCDs
  • Stroke prevention and treatment
  • Hypertension

Site Contacts: Fred Stephen Sarfo – stephensarfo78@gmail.com

Summary: 

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST) was established in 1952 and is situated in Kumasi, Ghana. The core mandate of the College of Health Sciences is to train medical doctors, allied health workers and biomedical scientists for Ghana.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ghanian based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • NCDs
  • Stroke prevention and treatment
  • Hypertension
 Ghana / NPGH / Suntresu Government Hospital, Ghana Health Service

U.S. Partner: University of Michigan

Areas of Focus:

  • Understanding late identification of neonatal jaundice
  • Epidemiology and surveillance of neonatal birth asphyxia
  • Identifying maternal and neonatal near-misses
  • Community-based knowledge and attitudes toward newborn mortality

Site Contacts: 

Summary:

While child mortality (deaths under age 5) have dropped significantly in recent years, neonatal mortality (deaths within the first 28 days after birth) remains a challenge in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Neonatal deaths make up nearly half of all under 5 childhood mortality, and deaths within the first 7 days of life make up half of all neonatal deaths. Thus, the first few days after delivery are critical to improving neonatal outcomes. This long-standing collaboration takes place at a medium-sized government hospital that refers to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.

 Malawi / UJMT / UNC Project - Malawi

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV/AIDS including prevention, treatment, opportunistic infections and co-morbidities
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Surgery, trauma, injury prevention
  • Maternal and child health
  • Mental health
  • Cancer (breast, cervical, esophageal, Burkitt’s lymphoma, etc.)
  • Transfusion Medicine and Blood Donation Practices
  • Implementation research

Site Contacts: 

Summary:

UNC has been conducting HIV/STD research in Malawi since 1990 and officially established UNC Project-Malawi in 1999. UNC Project Malawi is a partnership with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) that broadly focuses on issues of importance to Malawians, namely reproductive health, HIV and STIs, oncology, trauma, burns, malaria, and TB clinical care, training, and research opportunities.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Malawi based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects:

  • HIV/AIDS including prevention, treatment, opportunistic infections and co-morbidities
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Surgery, trauma, injury prevention
  • Maternal and child health
  • Mental health
  • Cancer (breast, cervical, esophageal, Burkitt’s lymphoma, etc.)
  • Transfusion Medicine and Blood Donation Practices
  • Implementation research
 Nepal / NPGH / Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences (KUSMS), Dhulikhel Hospital, Nepal Cleft and Burn Center – Kirtipur Hospital

U.S. Partner: Northern Pacific Global Health Consortium (NPGH), University of Washington  

Areas of Focus:

  • Treatment of trauma and burns
  • design activism and landscape architecture
  • water insecurity and indigenous peoples

Site Contacts: Roopa Sriram - ghfmgr@uw.edu

Summary:

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Nepali mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Risk factors for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and the development of new devices for use in low-resource settings
  • Treatment of trauma and burns
  • Design activism and landscape architecture
  • Water insecurity and indigenous peoples
  • Current ongoing projects that are accepting scholars and fellows include: the Dhulikhel Heart Study, a collaboration that seeks to understand risk factors for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and the development of new devices for use in low-resource settings; treatment of trauma and burns; design activism and landscape architecture; water insecurity and indigenous peoples.
 Nepal / UJMT / Tribhuvan University

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  •  
  • Respiratory health
  • Pneumonia
  • Vaccine development and testing
  • Pediatrics
  • The Brick Kiln project: The active Brick Kiln project aims to characterize the effects of brick kiln pollution, a neglected but serious environmental and occupational risk factor, on lung function and respiratory symptoms in brick kiln workers and family members in Bhaktapur, Nepal. We are also conducting lung imaging to identify radiographic abnormalities, and immunophenotyping to examine the immune system response. We are measuring personal exposures to brick kiln dust and smoke, ambient and household air pollutants, and tobacco smoke, and will be estimating biologically-relevant lifetime exposures.  

Site Contacts: 

Summary:

Tribhuvan University (TU), established in 1959, is the first national institution of higher education in Nepal. The university governs five institutes: Institute of Medicine (IOM), Institute of Engineering (IOE), Institute of Science and Technology, Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, and Institute of Forestry. The IOM was established in 1972 to train and develop all levels of health manpower in the field of country. Since the initial phase of training of Health Assistants and Auxiliary Nurse Midwifes, the institute has grown over the years to become a pioneer and trendsetter in medical education in the country.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Nepal based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Respiratory health
  • Pneumonia
  • Vaccine development and testing
  • Pediatrics
  • The Brick Kiln project: The active Brick Kiln project aims to characterize the effects of brick kiln pollution, a neglected but serious environmental and occupational risk factor, on lung function and respiratory symptoms in brick kiln workers and family members in Bhaktapur, Nepal. We are also conducting lung imaging to identify radiographic abnormalities, and immunophenotyping to examine the immune system response. We are measuring personal exposures to brick kiln dust and smoke, ambient and household air pollutants, and tobacco smoke, and will be estimating biologically-relevant lifetime exposures.  
 Uganda / ACHIEVE / MildMay Uganda

U.S. Partner: Washington University in St. Louis 

Areas of Focus:

  •  
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH
  • HIV Prevention, Care & treatment
  • Key populations
  • Infectious Diseases.
  • Non-Communicable Diseases.
  • Biomedical Research.
  • Dementia and Mental Health among others

Site Contacts:

Summary:

MildMay Uganda is a national Non-Government Organization established in Uganda in 1998 as a Centre of Excellence for provision of comprehensive HIV&AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and training services. Overtime, Mildmay Uganda has evolved and diversified its services specializing in delivery of comprehensive healthcare including Treatment Services; Health Systems Strengthening; Other Complementary Social Services; Health Training and Education; and Research.

Mildmay Research Centre Uganda (MRCU) is a subsidiary of Mildmay Uganda (MUg). MUg is a national indigenous, faith-based organization registered under Uganda’s law with the national NGO Registration Board as a non-government organization (NGO) with affiliates in the UK and Kenya. SINCE 1998, MUg has been modelling quality and sustainable prevention, care and treatment of HIV and other health priorities, using a family-centered approach together with training, education and research in Uganda. MUg pioneered specialist paediatric HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa and is one of the two paediatric palliative care Beacon Centres in Africa. For over 21 years now, MUg has been, and is a key player in the HIV epidemic response in Uganda providing prevention, care, treatment and Health Systems Strengthening services across several districts of Uganda and at its Center of Excellence (CoE). MUg has demonstrable capacity to pinpoint and focus her intervention to the most vulnerable people and deploys low cost models that high impact yet replicable. MUg is one of the National NGOs (NNGOs) operating sub-national programs that contribute significantly to national health outcomes and is currently the PEPFAR comprehensive implementing partner for Central Uganda (the region with highest HIV prevalence of 7.2% compared to 5.8% national prevalence). Mildmay Uganda management systems, including her laboratory, are accredited for ISO 9001:2015 and 15189:2012 respectively.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ugandan mentors to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH
  • HIV Prevention, Care & treatment
  • Key populations
  • Infectious Diseases. 
  • Non-Communicable Diseases. 
  • Biomedical Research. 
  • Dementia and Mental Health among others
 Uganda / ACHIEVE / Uganda Cancer Institute

U.S. Partner: Washington University in St. Louis

Areas of Focus:

  • Improving pediatric oncology supportive care in a resource-limited setting
  • Cancer biology
  • Implementation science research
  • Oncology/Hematology
  • Sociobehavioral and socio-economic cancer research
  • Genomics
  • Cancer epidemiology and registration
  • Early detection and diagnosis

Site Contacts:

Summary:

The Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) was established in 1967 as a result of a collaboration between Makerere University, the Ministry of Health and the US National Cancer Institute. It was established as a treatment center for the then recently discovered Burkitt Lymphoma, although it was subsequently expanded to treat other cancers with the Opening of the Solid Tumor Centre (STC) in 1969. The UCI is recognized as the site of the description of Burkitt Lymphoma by Dr. Denis Burkitt and also one of the initial sites for the first use of combination chemotherapy for cancer, which now forms the basis of all cancer chemotherapy. 

The Institute is a comprehensive cancer center offering all types of cancer care including radiotherapy, surgery, chemotherapy and palliative and rehabilitative services. The Institute caters for patients of all ages. The Institute currently receives over 7400 incident cases of cancer every year of which about 700 are children (< 14 years of age). The commonest cancers are cervical cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer. Based on the Kampala Cancer Registry (KCR), Uganda has one of the highest cervical cancer incidence rates in the world with an age standardized rate of 47.5 per 100,000 which is three times higher than the global average estimate of 15.8 per 100,000. Prostate cancer is the commonest cancer in men with an annual incidence rate of 20.2% (2,288 cases). Childhood (pediatric) cancers comprise about 10% of the total annual incidence of cancers at the Uganda Cancer Institute. 

The Institute has also been designated as the East Africa Centre of Excellence in Oncology and is in the process of establish four regional cancer centers in different parts of Uganda. 

Summary of the site/ongoing research projects/topics of interest:

The Uganda Cancer Institute was started in the first place to provide room for research and clinical initiatives in cancer. The institute has over the past few years, built capacity to conduct high quality research including clinical trials, implementation science and community studies. Our research provides avenues for discovery but also additional treatment options for patients such as in clinical trials. 

Fellows coming to the Uganda Cancer Institute would be expected to work with U.S. and Ugandan mentors to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Improving pediatric oncology supportive care in a resource-limited setting
  • Cancer biology 
  • Implementation science research 
  • Oncology/Hematology
  • Sociobehavioral and socio-economic cancer research
  • Genomics
  • Cancer epidemiology and registration 
  • Early detection and diagnosis 
 Uganda / INSIGHT / Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST)

U.S. Partner: Integrated Network of Scholars in Global Health Research Training (INSIGHT), University of Alabama at Birmingham

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV care
  • HIV prevention
  • Reproductive health
  • health sciences education
  • human medicine
  • nursing
  • medical laboratory sciences
  • pharmacy
  • pharmaceutical sciences
  • physiotherapy
  • interdisciplinary healthcare delivery through community-based education, research, and service (COBERS)

Site Contacts:

Summary:

Mbarara University of Science & Technology (commonly known as MUST), a public university in Uganda commenced student intake and instruction in 1989 and is one of the ten public universities and degree-awarding institutions in the country. MUST is accredited by the National Council for Higher Education in Uganda and has acclaimed national and international recognition for best practices in outreach and community relations from Association of Commonwealth Universities, European Union and the Civil Society of Uganda. The Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital (MRRH) is the sole teaching hospital for the MUST Medical School and is the referral hospital for the Western Region of Uganda. The 320 bed referral hospital provides outpatient and inpatient clinical care, training, and research infrastructure in southwestern Uganda - a region 36,870 square kilometers in size with a population of over 5 million representing about 18% of the national population. MRRH houses the Immune Suppression Syndrome Clinic (ISS Clinic), a PEPFAR-funded clinical site, which serves as the hospital’s HIV outpatient clinic.

MUST Faculty is dedicated to training a diverse group of future leaders in academic health professions and clinical practice who will combine clinical medicine with the discovery of new knowledge through research.  MUST has an Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Laboratory providing diagnostic microbiology services for improved patient care. With the recent addition of upgraded workstations, storage units, air conditioning, a bio-safety cabinet, a laboratory refrigerator, an incubator 405L, a bacticinerator, turbidity meter, and a magnetic stirrer, the lab is classified as a Bio-safety Level II. The MUST Research Laboratory is a certified Clinical and Research Laboratory which implements Good Clinical Practice protocols for the processing, storage and testing of laboratory specimens for the adjacent MRRH hospital. The laboratory also houses a Beckman Coulter AU480 chemistry analyzer, Thermo Fischer Scientific Applied Biosystems Viia7 Real-time PCR assay, laminar flow biosafety hoods, three centrifuges, and an additional bank of freezers with backup generator power source. With a modern laboratory of this nature both MRRH and MUST serve students, researchers and patients in the entire western Uganda region. 

The MUST Global Health Research Collaboration has worked for over 16 years to develop partnerships with Massachusetts General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, UAB, University of Minnesota, Lund University, and many others.  These partnerships have helped the MUST Research Collaboration to grow extensive research infrastructure in Mbarara. 

The Collaboration occupies fully equipped and independent research space adjacent to MUST and MRRH for conduct of clinical research. Collaboration facilities include enrollment and interview rooms, an independent phlebotomy and specimen collection room, staff offices, and meeting space as well as 24-hour internet access (with 4G modem data management packages), remote library access, and remote study database access for data entry, quality assurance, and analysis.

 Uganda / INSIGHT / Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation-Uganda (Baylor-Uganda)

U.S. Partner: Baylor College of Medicine  

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV
  • TB
  • Orphans and Vulnerable Children services  
  • Clinical trials and implementation research 
  • Global Health Security 
  • Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Newborn Child and Adolescent health 

Site Contacts:

Summary:

Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation-Uganda (Baylor-Uganda) is a not-for-profit organization established in 2006. The organization is a leading provider of integrated high quality and high impact HIV, TB, Maternal and Child Health services, health professional training, and research in Uganda. Baylor-Uganda has grown its portfolio from managing only 3 grants (< 1 million USD) in 2006 to over 34 grants worth about 40 million USD. Other program areas include Global Health security, nutrition, and social support to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). The research directorate conducts clinical trials (industry including vaccines), implementation research, and cohort studies. 

Baylor Uganda is headquartered at Mulago Hospital where it runs a Pediatric and Adolescent family-centered HIIV/AIDS/TB Clinic with close to 8500 clients. Under comprehensive HIV programs, Baylor-Uganda supports the Ministry of Health, 3 Regional Referral Hospitals, and 47 District Local Governments through a health system strengthening approach to include combination prevention strategies (PreP, VMMC), HIV testing services, MNCH, HIV care & treatment. In 2022, the organization’s programs supported over 420 health facilities reaching 217,000 clients on ART in the Kampala, Fort Portal, Hoima, and Mbale regions – as a result, we reached 961000 persons with HIV testing services, 406000 pregnant women with PMTCT services, 25000 OVC, 17000 TB patients and 38500 KPs.

The Baylor Uganda call center (National Pediatric, and Adolescent HIV/AIDS/TB Call center [NAPAC]) provides consultative technical support services to health workers across the country and the communities in pediatrics and adolescent HIV/AIDS/TB management and HIV self-testing. The call center also provides counseling services support to study participants. 

The Global Health Security (GHS) program works collaboratively with the Ministry of Health to promote its mandate in policy formulation and oversight role for combating epidemics in Uganda. The program has been very instrumental in the detection, prevention, and control of the COVID-19 and Ebola epidemics in Uganda. 

 Uganda / NPGH / Makerere University (Kampala) Mbarara University of Science and Technology (Mbarara)/Global Health Uganda 

U.S. Partner: University of Minnesota

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV and Cryptococcal Meningitis
  • Epidemiology and surveillance systems for infectious disease and zoonotic infection
  • Mobile health interventions (women’s health and HIV)
  • Immunology
  • Neuropsychology
  • Nutrition (primarily pediatric) and infectious disease
  • Vaccine research 

Site Contacts: Dr. Shailey Prasad - pras0054@umn.edu

Summary: 

The University of Minnesota has a long-standing research relationship with multiple colleges at Makerere University (Infectious Disease Institute, College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, and the College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources, and Biosecurity) starting in 2005 and with Mbarara University starting in 2010 regarding neuro-infectious disease research. The University of Minnesota has enabled training for 7 PhDs and 13 master’s Ugandan trainees through nested projects of NIH-sponsored clinical research. Since 2012, 20 Fogarty Scholars and Fellows have been trained in this capacity through 1-year global health fellowships (1 at MUST, 19 at Makerere). Additionally, three Ugandan principal investigators have obtained independent NIH funding. 

The University of Minnesota has strong resources to support research fellows through an extensive network of researchers at all three institutions committed to advancing research training.

 

 

Neuropsychology and Mental Health Topics

Ghana / GloCal / University of Ghana (UG)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal) 

Areas of Focus:

  • infectious and non-communicable diseases
  • mental health
  • climate change
  • maternal and child health/nutrition
  • nutrition and child development
  • blood safety and availability

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

For nearly 30 years, the University of Ghana has collaborated with UC Davis in research and capacity building: many key studies in maternal and child nutrition have been completed or are underway in Ghana, and several Ghanaians have received their Ph.D. from UC Davis and have returned to UG or continued to work in the international arena. UCSF has also recently started some collaborative projects in Ghana on person-centered maternity care and COVID-19 effects on health care workers.

UG faculty's research areas include infectious and non-communicable diseases, mental health, climate change, maternal and child health and nutrition, nutrition and child development, and blood safety and availability. Elements that make UG a strong partner include:

  • Office of Research, Innovation and Development (ORID) which promotes, coordinates, and facilitates research activities, as well as manages external research funds.
  • International Programs Office (IPO) coordinates and promotes relations with international students and scholars. It has a variety of services, including assistance with accommodation, immigration issues, and local culture.

UG also collaborates with several other research institutions, such as the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research; Centre for Tropical, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics; the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens; the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement; and the West African Genetic Medicine Centre (WAGMC).

 Malawi / UJMT / UNC Project - Malawi

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV/AIDS including prevention, treatment, opportunistic infections and co-morbidities
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Surgery, trauma, injury prevention
  • Maternal and child health
  • Mental health
  • Cancer (breast, cervical, esophageal, Burkitt’s lymphoma, etc.)
  • Transfusion Medicine and Blood Donation Practices
  • Implementation research

Site Contacts: 

Summary:

UNC has been conducting HIV/STD research in Malawi since 1990 and officially established UNC Project-Malawi in 1999. UNC Project Malawi is a partnership with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) that broadly focuses on issues of importance to Malawians, namely reproductive health, HIV and STIs, oncology, trauma, burns, malaria, and TB clinical care, training, and research opportunities.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Malawi based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects:

  • HIV/AIDS including prevention, treatment, opportunistic infections and co-morbidities
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Surgery, trauma, injury prevention
  • Maternal and child health
  • Mental health
  • Cancer (breast, cervical, esophageal, Burkitt’s lymphoma, etc.)
  • Transfusion Medicine and Blood Donation Practices
  • Implementation research
 Peru / GloCal / Universidad Católica San Pablo (UCSP)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal)

Areas of Focus:

  • Pre-clinical dementia 
  • neurophysiological testing

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

Universidad Católica San Pablo (UCSP) is an academic community located in Arequipa, Peru. It is inspired by the orientations and life of the Catholic Church, which seeks the truth and promotes the formation of the whole person through activities such as research, teaching and extension.

In research, UCSP has financed more than 40 projects and more than 45 have been also financed by other institutions and programs such as CONCYTEC (National Council of Science and Technology), “Innóvate Perú” and the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union. As a result of the research work, approximately 300 research papers have been published.

Currently, researchers at UCSP’s Neuroscience in collaboration with researchers from University of California of San Francisco (UCSF), are working to validate the Tablet-based Cognitive Assessment Tool (TabCat) in preclinical dementia phases in older people with low educational levels. Researchers Drs. Marcio Soto and Nilton Custodio are the project’s mentors and Dr. Serggio Lanata from UCSF is the project’s coordinator.

UCSP Neuroscience Lab offers research opportunities in: 1) validating brief cognitive tests in preclinical and clinical phases of dementia in people with low educational level or illiterates; 2) neurophysiological biomarkers in pre-clinical phases of dementia with EEG; 3) genetic and environmental risk factors for dementia and 4) machine learning approach to characterize and predict neurodegenerative diseases with multimodal data (clinical, behavioral, neuroimaging and socio-economic factors). Study sites include several cities in southern Peru and rural areas of Arequipa.

Facilities include space for doctoral and postdoctoral students and state-of-the-art technological equipment to formulate experiments, analyze data, and prepare manuscripts for publication. Furthermore, the lab has a Gesell camera and behavioral evaluating rooms for clinical and research purpose and an exclusive room for neurophysiological recordings with an EEG of 64 active electrodes channels.

UCSP Neuroscience Lab’s vision is to promote an interdisciplinary approach to cognitive, behavioral and emotional well-being in southern Peru, through mentoring and research training programs. Its purpose is to actively develop world-class research projects with the purpose of solving scientific and societal problems that affect us all, especially the elderly in Peru and Latin America.

 Peru / HBNU / Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia  

U.S. Partner: Boston University and Northwestern University

Areas of Focus:

  • Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
  • Adolescent Health
  • Infectious Disease 
  • Mental Health 
  • Non-communicable Diseases

Site Contacts: Site Director: Patricia Garcia, Professor, School of Public Health, Cayetano Heredia University - pattyg@uw.edu

Summary:

In collaboration with Fogarty International Center, the consortium of Harvard University, Boston University, Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico (HBNU) is seeking to host a Fulbright – Fogarty fellow at the consortium’s site in Peru: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH).

Cayetano Heredia University located in Lima, Peru is considered one of the top medical schools in Peru and is one of the major producers and publishers of scientific research in the country. Founded in 1961 by a group of professors and students from the medical school of the four-century-old National University of San Marcos in Lima, Cayetano Heredia University has established numerous agreements and collaborative arrangements with leading institutions from all over the world.

 Uganda / ACHIEVE / MildMay Uganda

U.S. Partner: Washington University in St. Louis 

Areas of Focus:

  •  
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH
  • HIV Prevention, Care & treatment
  • Key populations
  • Infectious Diseases.
  • Non-Communicable Diseases.
  • Biomedical Research.
  • Dementia and Mental Health among others

Site Contacts:

Summary:

MildMay Uganda is a national Non-Government Organization established in Uganda in 1998 as a Centre of Excellence for provision of comprehensive HIV&AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and training services. Overtime, Mildmay Uganda has evolved and diversified its services specializing in delivery of comprehensive healthcare including Treatment Services; Health Systems Strengthening; Other Complementary Social Services; Health Training and Education; and Research.

Mildmay Research Centre Uganda (MRCU) is a subsidiary of Mildmay Uganda (MUg). MUg is a national indigenous, faith-based organization registered under Uganda’s law with the national NGO Registration Board as a non-government organization (NGO) with affiliates in the UK and Kenya. SINCE 1998, MUg has been modelling quality and sustainable prevention, care and treatment of HIV and other health priorities, using a family-centered approach together with training, education and research in Uganda. MUg pioneered specialist paediatric HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa and is one of the two paediatric palliative care Beacon Centres in Africa. For over 21 years now, MUg has been, and is a key player in the HIV epidemic response in Uganda providing prevention, care, treatment and Health Systems Strengthening services across several districts of Uganda and at its Center of Excellence (CoE). MUg has demonstrable capacity to pinpoint and focus her intervention to the most vulnerable people and deploys low cost models that high impact yet replicable. MUg is one of the National NGOs (NNGOs) operating sub-national programs that contribute significantly to national health outcomes and is currently the PEPFAR comprehensive implementing partner for Central Uganda (the region with highest HIV prevalence of 7.2% compared to 5.8% national prevalence). Mildmay Uganda management systems, including her laboratory, are accredited for ISO 9001:2015 and 15189:2012 respectively.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Ugandan mentors to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH
  • HIV Prevention, Care & treatment
  • Key populations
  • Infectious Diseases. 
  • Non-Communicable Diseases. 
  • Biomedical Research. 
  • Dementia and Mental Health among others
 Uganda / NPGH / Makerere University (Kampala) Mbarara University of Science and Technology (Mbarara)/Global Health Uganda

U.S. Partner: University of Minnesota

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV and Cryptococcal Meningitis
  • Epidemiology and surveillance systems for infectious disease and zoonotic infection
  • Mobile health interventions (women’s health and HIV)
  • Immunology
  • Neuropsychology
  • Nutrition (primarily pediatric) and infectious disease
  • Vaccine research 

Site Contacts: Dr. Shailey Prasad - pras0054@umn.edu

Summary: 

The University of Minnesota has a long-standing research relationship with multiple colleges at Makerere University (Infectious Disease Institute, College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, and the College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources, and Biosecurity) starting in 2005 and with Mbarara University starting in 2010 regarding neuro-infectious disease research. The University of Minnesota has enabled training for 7 PhDs and 13 master’s Ugandan trainees through nested projects of NIH-sponsored clinical research. Since 2012, 20 Fogarty Scholars and Fellows have been trained in this capacity through 1-year global health fellowships (1 at MUST, 19 at Makerere). Additionally, three Ugandan principal investigators have obtained independent NIH funding. 

The University of Minnesota has strong resources to support research fellows through an extensive network of researchers at all three institutions committed to advancing research training.

 Uganda / UJMT / Makerere University

U.S. Partner: UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • Cancer
  • Child health
  • Communicable diseases (both non-HIV and HIV/AIDS)
  • Noncommunicable diseases 
  • Neurologic disorders
  • Trauma and injury
  • Women’s health
  • Pulmonary health

Site Contacts:

Summary:

The Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS) is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Africa, with over 40,000 students. It is the leading institution for medical instruction and research in the East, Central and Southern Africa (excluding South Africa). MakCHS has a strong track record of successful collaborative research with local, American and European universities and institutions and has participated in many of the early trials of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria interventions in the region.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Uganda based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • Cancer
  • Child health
  • Communicable diseases (both non-HIV and HIV/AIDS)
  • Noncommunicable diseases 
  • Neurologic disorders
  • Trauma and injury
  • Women’s health
  • Pulmonary health
 Vietnam / GloCal / Hanoi Medical University (HMU)

U.S. Partner: GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium (GloCal)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV/AIDS
  • STIs
  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Addiction
  • Mental Health
  • Aging 
  • Non-Communicable diseases

Site Contacts: Craig Cohen - Craig.Cohen@ucsf.edu

Summary:

Hanoi Medical University (HMU), established in 1902, is the oldest and largest health sciences university in Vietnam. HMU has a 400-bed teaching hospital and schools in medicine, nursing, public health, and traditional medicine. HMU has more than 70 academic departments and research units and about 1000 faculty members who have received their graduate training in Vietnam and/or abroad. It collaborates with universities all over the world for teaching and research.

The collaboration between HMU and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) started in 2011 with the Vietnam – HIV Addiction Technology Transfer Center (VHATTC) project, funded by SAMHSA with technical assistance from UCLA’s Integrated Substance Abuse Program. VHATTC (now renamed to Vietnam International Technology Transfer Center) continues to be a technical assistance resource for addiction professionals in Vietnam. In 2016, a Fogarty-funded training program on advanced epidemiological methods (NIH D43 TWW010057) for Vietnamese scholars was led by Dr. Li Li (UCLA). Collaboration on a study of antimicrobial resistance in STDs began in 2017, and continued with a study on STIs among PrEP users and antimicrobial resistance in N. gonorrhoeae (7R21AI157817-02). In 2020, NIDA funded HMU to work with Dr. Steven Shoptaw (UCLA) on a study to reduce methamphetamine use among methadone patients (R01DA050486).

With the continuing GloCal training program, HMU aims to develop more studies in important areas including HIV/AIDS, STIs, antimicrobial resistance, addiction, mental health, aging and non-communicable diseases.

 Vietnam / UJMT / UNC Project Vietnam

U.S. Partner: 

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • UJMT Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH)

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV in at risk populations including men who have sex with men and people who inject drugs
  • Substance abuse
  • Alcohol reduction interventions
  • Implementation research
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Mental health
  • HIV comorbidities including HCV and TB

Site Contacts:

Summary:

UNC Project Vietnam site in Hanoi has been operational since 2001. UNC has invested in enhanced local clinical, laboratory, and pharmacy capacity to meet international QA standards for conducting investigational drug trials in Vietnam. UNC has established Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with the 198 Hospital, Hanoi Medical University (HMU), Vietnam Authority for AIDS control, and Bach Mai Hospital. UNC has two main research sites in Hanoi: Hanoi Medical University and National Lung Hospital. Our primary partners for all research and training activities are governmental institutions within the Ministry of Health (MOH), including the Vietnam Authority of HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC), the primary agency responsible for overseeing and implementing HIV-related programs and policy in Vietnam. Our success over the years has been based on transparency with the VAAC and the alignment of our activities with Vietnam’s research priorities. Our strong research collaborations and infrastructure position the Vietnam site well to access at risk populations with and without HIV, including people who inject drugs, men who have sex with men, transgender women, HBV-infected individuals, and TB patients, as well as access to HIV-infected individuals at ART clinics.

Fellows would be expected to work with U.S. and Vietnam based mentor groups to develop an independent research project that could be integrated into one of the following projects or in a new area of interest:

  • HIV in at risk populations including men who have sex with men and people who inject drugs
  • Substance abuse
  • Alcohol reduction interventions
  • Implementation research
  • HIV/STI prevalence studies
  • Mental health
  • HIV comorbidities including HCV and TB
 

 

Nutrition

Ethiopia / HBNU / Addis Continental Institute of Public Health 

U.S. Partner: Harvard University

Areas of Focus:

  • Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
  • Adolescent Health
  • Infectious Disease 

Site Contacts: Site Director: Yemane Berhane, Director, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, ACIPH (yemaneberhane@addiscontinental.edu.et )

Summary:

In collaboration with Fogarty International Center, the consortium of Harvard University, Boston University, Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico (HBNU) is seeking to host a Fulbright – Fogarty fellow at the consortium’s site in Ethiopia: Addis Continental Institute of Public Health (ACIPH).

Addis Continental Institute of Public Health is an independent center of excellence for public health research and training. Established in 2006, ACIPH is an accredited higher learning institute and provides technical services and training in major health issues in Africa. The Institute has highly qualified core technical experts and a number of associate consultants in the various fields of health and social sciences. The Institute has over 80 full time technical and administrative staff, and over 100 trained field research workers. The data management unit is also staffed with well trained and experienced individuals. ACIPH supports the attainment of healthier lives for Africans by establishing and maintaining centers of excellence for health training and strategic health information to enhance the quality of health services and promote evidence based public health practices. In addition to providing short term training, assisting with generating strategic information through research, monitoring and evaluation, and establishing routine database systems, ACIPH provides consultancy services in the areas of public health training, research and services to Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health and to other global health organizations. Institute investigators and students focus their research efforts on major public health problems such as reproductive health, child health, nutrition and food security, non-communicable diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, as well as other emerging and re-emerging public health challenges. Investigators provide training and technical assistance in methodological issues such as data management, analysis and report writing in both quantitative and qualitative research approaches. 

ACIPH’s main objectives are: 

  • Conduct training programs to enhance performance in health services and program management.
  • Support evidence-based practice by conducting research and monitoring and evaluation activities.
  • Provide technical support for organizations and/or individuals engaged in collecting, analyzing, and dissemination of health and population data/information.
  • Develop and undertake training programs to support human resource development in the continent.
  • ACIPH is located in the convenient area of Addis Ababa in Yeka sub-city. The office is equipped with computers and printers, photocopy machines, communication services including high-speed broadband and Wi-Fi internet, telephone and fax machines, data and documentation center, and transportation vehicles. The Institute building was constructed in 2012 and stands five stories high. The Institute has highly qualified core technical experts and some associate consultants in the various fields of health and social sciences. The Institute has over 45 full time technical and administrative staff, and over 80 trained field research workers.

ACIPH works closely with Addis Ababa University (AAU) School of Public Health. AAU was established in 1964 with the purpose of training medial students with up-to-date public health knowledge and skills to prevent and control communicable diseases that contribute to the high morbidity and mortality of the Ethiopian people.

 Ghana / HBNU / University of Ghana

U.S. Partner: Harvard University and University of New Mexico.

Areas of Focus:

  • Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
  • Adolescent Health
  • Infectious Disease

Site Contacts: Gordon Awandare, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Ghana (gawandare@ug.edu.gh)

Summary:

In collaboration with Fogarty International Center, the consortium of Harvard University, Boston University, Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico (HBNU) is seeking to host a Fulbright – Fogarty fellow at the consortium’s site in Ghana: University of Ghana. 

The University of Ghana (UG) was founded as the University College of the Gold Coast by Ordinance on August 11, 1948 for the purpose of providing and promoting university education, learning and research. The vision of the university is to become a world class research-intensive university with the mission of creating an enabling environment that makes University of Ghana increasingly relevant to national and global development through cutting-edge research as well as high quality teaching and learning.

UG is administered through a central administration which includes a collegiate system comprising the following colleges and a School of Graduate Studies:

  • College of Basic and Applied Sciences
  • College of Education
  • College of Health Sciences
  • College of Humanities

The University has several research institutions and centres for learning and research, within the colleges. Those that involved in health-related research include:

College of Basic and Applied Sciences

  • West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP)
  • Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies
  • Biotechnology Research Centre
  • Center for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies(C3SS)

College of Health Sciences

  • Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research
  • Centre for Tropical, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • West African Genetic Medicine Centre (WAGMC)

College of Humanities

  • Regional Institute for Population Studies
  • Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research
  • Centre for Urban Management Studies
  • Centre for Ageing Studies

Additionally, to promote, coordinate, and facilitate research activities within the university, the Office of Research, Innovation and Development (ORID) was established in 2010. ORID provides research administration and grant management services to researchers. It has the specific responsibility of developing and implementing the University’s research policy, ensuring effective distribution and efficient use of research funds and representing the interests of the University in contractual relationships, grant applications and reporting administering contract research.

 Ghana / NPGH / Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Kumasi)

U.S. Partner: University of Washington (Departments of Surgery and Global Health)

Areas of Focus:

  • Injury prevention
  • Epidemiology of surgical conditions, injuries and burns
  • Trauma system models
  • Cookstove safety
  • Resuscitation
  • Nutrition after injury

Site Contacts: Dr. Barclay Stewart - barclays@uw.edu

Summary:

The University of Washington has a long-standing research relationship with Kwame University of Science, Technology and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, and other organizations in Ghana (e.g., National Ambulance Service, Buildings and Roads Research Institute, National Road Safety Authority). Numerous Ghanaian and American trainees have completed 1-year global health fellowships and performed impactful research related to injury and burn prevention, trauma and burn care, road safety, and others. Prior trainees have obtained independent funding from the US National Institutes of Health, US Department of Defense and State Department, and other funders. University of Washington has strong resources to support research fellows through an extensive network of collaborators across Ghana committed to advancing injury prevention and control. 

 Jamaica / GHES / Caribbean Institute for Health Research, the University of the West Indies (CAHIR)

U.S. Partner: Global Health Equity Scholars (University of Arizona)

Areas of Focus:

  • Sickle cell disease
  • Cardiovascular diseases
  • Nutrition
  • Physicial activity
  • Cancer

Site Contacts: 

  • Marshall Tulloch-Reid, Site Mentor, Professor of Epidemiology & Endocrinology; Director of Epidemiology Research Unit, Caribbean Institute for Health Research - marshall.tullochreid@uwimona.edu.jm
  • Ryan Borg, Program Manager, Yale School of Public Health - ryan.borg@yale.edu

Summary:

The Caribbean Institute for Health Research (CAIHR), formerly the Tropical Medicine Research Institute, was established in 1999 at the University of the West Indies (UWI) to increase the output of research in major areas affecting the health of regional communities, increase the number of trained research scientists working in health, and to facilitate the uptake of research into policy, programs and practice, thereby contributing to improvement in the health status of Caribbean peoples. The Institute is active in research on chronic non-communicable diseases (e.g. hypertension, diabetes, haemoglobinopathies) and their risk factors and child development. It  and provides teaching at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels for medical, and nursing students as well as students of other health disciplines. CAIHR also offers doctoral programs in nutrition and epidemiology.

CAIHR consist of four units and brief descriptions of the units and their work are provided below:

  • Sickle Cell Unit (SCU): The SCU is the only comprehensive facility for the care of persons with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) in the English-speaking Caribbean. It seeks to improve the lives of individuals with haemoglobinopathies through rigorous biomedical research including clinical trials, education, and clinical care. It continues to be one of the largest such facilities world-wide with over 5000 patients registered in its database.
  • Tropical Metabolism Research Unit (TMRU): The TMRU has a clinical research facility laboratory as well as offices for clinical, research, administrative, and laboratory staff. Staff at the TMRU have expertise in the use of stable isotopes in metabolic investigations in infants and children. With a strong history of pioneering nutrition research the Unit is currently developing a research portfolio in climate and health.
  • Epidemiology Research Unit (ERU): The ERU was established in 1999 and is comprised of two groups ─ a Child Development Group with experience in cognitive evaluation and the development of interventions to improve child development and a Chronic Disease Group, focused on obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes etiology and interventions.
  • George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre (GA-CDRC): Created in 1992, the GA-CDRC is the only unit of CAIHR situated physically outside of Jamaica, in Barbados, the easternmost island of the Caribbean. The GA-CDRC responds to the emerging population health challenges experienced by the small island developing states of the Caribbean. It has a strong track record in undertaking population based epidemiological research, including research arising from data collected by the national surveillance system monitoring the burden of the major NCDs affecting Barbados ― incorporating the only multi-NCD registry in the Western hemisphere and has a special interest in issues affecting small island developing states including climate and food security.
 Peru / HBNU / Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia  

U.S. Partner: Boston University and Northwestern University

Areas of Focus:

  • Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
  • Adolescent Health
  • Infectious Disease 
  • Mental Health 
  • Non-communicable Diseases

Site Contacts: Site Director: Patricia Garcia, Professor, School of Public Health, Cayetano Heredia University - pattyg@uw.edu

Summary:

In collaboration with Fogarty International Center, the consortium of Harvard University, Boston University, Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico (HBNU) is seeking to host a Fulbright – Fogarty fellow at the consortium’s site in Peru: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH).

Cayetano Heredia University located in Lima, Peru is considered one of the top medical schools in Peru and is one of the major producers and publishers of scientific research in the country. Founded in 1961 by a group of professors and students from the medical school of the four-century-old National University of San Marcos in Lima, Cayetano Heredia University has established numerous agreements and collaborative arrangements with leading institutions from all over the world.

 Uganda / NPGH / Makerere University (Kampala) Mbarara University of Science and Technology (Mbarara)/Global Health Uganda

U.S. Partner: University of Minnesota

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV and Cryptococcal Meningitis
  • Epidemiology and surveillance systems for infectious disease and zoonotic infection
  • Mobile health interventions (women’s health and HIV)
  • Immunology
  • Neuropsychology
  • Nutrition (primarily pediatric) and infectious disease
  • Vaccine research 

Site Contacts: Dr. Shailey Prasad - pras0054@umn.edu

Summary: 

The University of Minnesota has a long-standing research relationship with multiple colleges at Makerere University (Infectious Disease Institute, College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, and the College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources, and Biosecurity) starting in 2005 and with Mbarara University starting in 2010 regarding neuro-infectious disease research. The University of Minnesota has enabled training for 7 PhDs and 13 master’s Ugandan trainees through nested projects of NIH-sponsored clinical research. Since 2012, 20 Fogarty Scholars and Fellows have been trained in this capacity through 1-year global health fellowships (1 at MUST, 19 at Makerere). Additionally, three Ugandan principal investigators have obtained independent NIH funding. 

The University of Minnesota has strong resources to support research fellows through an extensive network of researchers at all three institutions committed to advancing research training.