Global Health

Global Health

Foundation programs are at work in dozens of countries around the world as well as across the United States. They aim to alleviate wide spread suffering and death from diseases such as malaria, enteric infections and HIV, as well as train researchers and medical personnel in the developing world.

Key Initiatives

Grand Challenges in Global Health

Funded by the Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges in Global Health encompasses 43 project across 33 countries, working toward scientific breakthroughs to prevent, treat, and cure diseases that kill millions each year.

Key Initiatives

MAL-ED: A Global Network for the Study of Malnutrition and Enteric Diseases

Poor nutrition is linked to more than half of all child deaths worldwide. This initiative, funded by the Gates Foundation, draws together an international group of scientific investigators to study the inter-relationship between enteric infections and malnutrition to reduce its devastating effects.

Key Initiatives

CTC-VIMC: Supporting the Development of a Vaccine for HIV/AIDS

The Foundation for NIH is one of 19 consortia comprising the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery. Funded by the Gates Foundation, this initiative is aimed toward developing an effective AIDS vaccine.

Program

Centralized Envelope Comparative Immunogenicity Study (CECI)

This project aims to address a fundamental problem blocking the development of a successful HIV-1 vaccine. The goal is to understand how best to design T cell immunogens to address the broad genetic diversity of HIV-1.

Program

Path Youth Program HIV/AIDS in Adolescents

Improving the health and well being of HIV-positive and at-risk youth is the goal of the Physical/Psychosocial Advocacy & Treatment For HIV Youth Program (PATH). This multi-disciplinary collaboration of experienced HIV researchers and care providers was established by Children’s Memorial Hospital and Howard Brown Community Health Center to conduct research on the north side of Chicago.

Grants

Grand Challenges: Insecticide Discovery Research Opportunity

The Letters of Inquiry Solicitation is closed. FNIH will contact investigators who responded by June 25, 2010 to inform them if they have been selected to submit a full application.

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