To tackle the human health challenges that face the world today, the FNIH develops collaborations with top experts from government, industry, academia and the not-for-profit sector and provides a neutral environment where we can work productively toward a common goal.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s Fogarty International Center celebrated its 50th anniversary of accomplishments and hosted a Scientific Symposium on May 1st, 2018 at the Natcher Auditorium on NIH’s campus. The program convened a series of panel discussions with NIH leaders, Fogarty grantees, and key stakeholders, to identify key gaps in global health research and strategize future research initiatives.
National Institutes of Health convened the 3rd Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) Research Summit on March 1-2, 2018 in Bethesda, Maryland. The program built on the foundation laid by the 2012 and 2015 NIH AD Research Summits and the U.S. National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA)/National Plan to Address AD.
On October 16-17, 2017, the National Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Research, Care and Services held a two-day Summit on the NIH campus entitled: National Research Summit on Dementia Care: Building Evidence for Services and Supports. The purpose of the Summit was to address the growing need for evidence that improves the quality of care and support provided to persons with dementia and their caregivers.
Held in 2017, the Cognitive Aging Summit III will brought together experts in a variety of research fields to discuss the most cutting edge advances in our understanding of age-related brain and cognitive changes, with a particular focus on resilience and reserve.
The 2016 Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias (ADRD) Summit was hosted by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) in collaboration with the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and held March 29-30, 2016 at the Natcher Auditorium on the NIH Campus.
The Heart Truth® is a national awareness campaign for women about heart disease, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for American women. Yet many women still do not take heart disease seriously or personally.
The study was implemented using shared and harmonized protocols across the eight sites to gather an enormous amount of data (physical, cognitive assessments, diet, illness and enteric infection, socio-economic status, etc.) to enable identification and characterization of factors associated with negative impacts on a child’s growth, development and vaccine response early in life.
The Sports and Health Research Program (SHRP) sought to help accelerate research that enhances the health of athletes at all ages and levels, and to extend the research’s impact beyond the playing field to benefit others in the general population, including members of the military.
Pilot Projects on Sports-Related Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Research was a component of the Sports and Health Research Program (SHRP) that funds pilot projects for research on sports-related traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury research.
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and Delayed Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury was a component of the Sports and Health Research Program. It sought to more fully characterize the neuropathology associated with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and delayed effects of traumatic brain injury through systematic, rigorous and collaborative studies of post-mortem biospecimens.