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The U.S. Commitment to Global Health: Recommendations for the New Administration is a new report released by the National Institute of Medicine. Posted 12/18/08 CNN has launched "Vital Signs," a monthly program on the latest global health topics, hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent. Posted 12/12/08 Dr. Peter Piot delivers an address at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on past and present challenges to global health and AIDS, as well as, reflections on his time at UNAIDS. Posted 10/28/08 The Global Health Council's Global Health Opportunities report is an update on priorities and U.S. investments in child health, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, and infectious diseases. Posted 10/27/08 Outlook for Global Health - 2008 Congressional Election highlights the congressional committees that oversee global health funding and provides some insight into possible leadership changes within the congressional committees. Posted 10/13/08 World Bank: Millennium Development Goals Interactive Online Atlas allows users to explore maps and compare values of key health indicators among different countries for each of the eight MDG goals. Posted 10/07/08 MSM, HIV, and the Road to Universal Access - How Far Have We Come? is an American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) special report that examines the response of 128 countries to a 2006 United Nations initiative promoting universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care. The report focuses on men how have sex with men (MSM) who make up a large and growing portion of the AIDS epidemic. The report is co-authored by Chris Beyrer, Johns Hopkins University Epidemiologist and Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health. View VOA article on the amfAR report. Posted 8/11/08 Priority Interventions: HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector is a compilation of WHO-recommended priority HIV/AIDS health-sector interventions. It includes everything from how to expand condom programming to the latest in treatment recommendations, guidelines and standards. The publication is designed to be a 'living' web-based document that will be periodically updated with new recommendations based on the rapidly evolving experience of the health-sector response. Posted 8/6/08 Global Health Funding: On Wednesday, July 30, 2008, President Bush signed into law legislation, H.R.5501, that reauthorizes the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The legislation allocates $50 billion - $48 billion towards PEPFAR and $2 billion towards American Indian issues. View the Global Health Council's side by side analysis between H.R. 5501 and the original legislation. Posted 8/1/08 Monitoring Financial Flows for Health Research 2007: Behind the Global Numbers is a collection of studies that looks behind the global totals, analysing R&D for health expenditures in Argentina, China, Mexico and the United States. It also looks at investments in the research of cancer and 20 historically high-burden infectious diseases. Posted 7/30/08 Financing the response to AIDS in low- and middle- income countries: International assistance from the G8, European Commission and other donor Governments, 2007 is a recent report that analyzes the funding available for HIV/AIDS from the G8, the European Commission and other donor governments in 2007. The report was produced by The Kaiser Family Foundation and UNAIDS. Posted 7/9/08 Clinton Global Initiative: Are you a student leader committed to addressing some of the most pressing issues facing the world today? Do you have what it takes to inspire more students on your campus to get involved and make a difference? If so, apply to become a Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) Campus Rep! Campus Reps are vital to spreading the vision and mission of CGI U to colleges around the world. As a Campus Rep, you will work with CGI U staff t
CGI U is a project of the Clinton Global Initiative, a non-partisan community of global leaders that devises and implements innovative and effective solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges. Posted 6/3/08
Food Failures and Futures, a Center for Geoeconomic Studies Working Paper, addresses the problems with humanitarian food policies and offers suggestions to a better way forward; the working paper is written by Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. Posted 6/3/08 Towards Universal Access: Scaling up Priority HIV/AIDS Interventions in the Health Sector, is the 2008 progress report on HIV/AIDS that details the achievements and challenges to the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. Posted 6/2/08 World Health Statistics 2008 is the most recent health statistics for the World Health Organization's 193 Member States; it includes 10 highlights in health statistics, as well as an expanded set of over 70 key health indicators. Posted 5/27/08 Health Partnerships Review addresses the issues that product development partnerships (PDPs) encounter as they try to increase access to essential medicines and offers suggestions to key areas for urgent attention including, sustainable financing; better mechanisms for coordination; creation of legislative, regulatory and service infrastructure and assesment; and strengthening of organization capacities. Posted 5/23/08 The 2008 State of the World's Mothers Report released by Save the Children includes the first - ever Basic Health Care Report Card, ranking 55 developing countries according to their ability to reach children with basic health care. Posted 5/14/08 Global Monitoring Report 2008: A new World Bank - International Monetary Fund report warns that most countries will fall short on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight globally agreed development goals with a due date of 2015. Global Health Funding: On February 4, the Administration released the President's FY 2009 budget request, which entails global health funding and a number of policy provisions to global health programs. Posted 2/5/08 E-Application Correction Window: Two Days. You now have just two business days, rather than five, to revise your electronic application after the deadline if it still has errors or warnings. Posted 1/22/08 NIAID's FY 2008 Budget -- Not As It Appears to Be: The wait is over. NIH and other federal government agencies received their FY 2008 appropriations on December 26 when the President signed H.R. 2764 into law. Posted 1/22/08 International Extramural Associates Research Development Awards (IEARDA) (G11): The IEARDA program goal is to produce a cadre of trained academic research administrators in countries with limited resources to facilitate and/or develop the appropriate administrative infrastructure in their home institutions for the implementation of a more rigorous research program. Deadline: Letters of Intent - July 27, 2008, July 28, 2009; Application Submission - August 27, 2008, August 28, 2009. Posted 11/28/07 Guidance on New Law (Public Law 110-85) Enacted to Expand the Scope of ClinicalTrials.gov - Registration: A new law has been enacted to expand the scope of ClinicalTrials.gov. This notice provides information for NIH grantees on new responsibilities related to the first part of the law, the registration of clinical trials. Posted 11/19/07 Job Lisings now appear in their own page in the resources section of the site. Posted 11/5/07 |
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