NIH Center Publishes Directory of International Grants and Fellowhsips in the Health Sciences
August 21, 2003
by John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Helath Sciences
The National Institutes of Health acts as one of many public and private organizations across the globe that provide international support for biomedical research and training. Since 1988, the Fogarty International Center has published the Directory of International Grants and Fellowships in the Health Sciences. This directory provides a comprehensive compilation of international opportunities in biomedical research.
The 20th century has brought both revolutions and evolutions in health. As biomedical and public health research have contributed to an enormous increase in our understanding of the basis of health and disease, the capacity of health workers to diagnose, treat and prevent illness has dramatically increased. At the same time as disease agents have evolved -- most obviously in the infectious diseases -- new diseases have emerged and old diseases have reemerged, environmental and dietary changes have impacted on the prevalence and natural history of non-communicable diseases, and genetic medicine has been created. As we approach the start of the 21st century, the knowledge base for practitioners of medicine has, quite literally, exploded.
Improvements in public health usually occur incrementally, and require not only the application of clinical advances based on past research but, in addition, consistent and continuing research to generate the information needed for the next generation of solutions. From its establishment in 1968, the Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has supported the training of international scientists in epidemiology, social and behavioral science, and modern laboratory and clinical investigation through grants, fellowships, training grants to U.S. Universities and the visiting scientist program on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. Training in clinical, epidemiological and basic science has provided an opportunity for more than 2500 foreign trainees in the United States over the past 10 years alone. Greater opportunities have never existed.
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