NIH/Fogarty International Center Clinical Research Scholars

The Vanderbilt University Institute for Global Health (VIGH) in partnership with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) will develop the Fogarty International Center Clinical Research Scholars (FICRS) Resource and Support Center and manage the NIH/Fogarty International Center Clinical Research Scholars program in global health. The purpose of this five-year program is to foster the next generation of clinical investigators with an eye toward building international health research collaborations in the developing world.

Support Center offers mentored training experiences for one year that provides opportunities to participate in clinical research.

• The Scholars program offers US graduate students in the health sciences hands-on experience at top-ranked, NIH-funded research centers abroad. Current locations are Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, China, Haiti, India, Kenya, Mali, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, and Zambia. For more information on the Scholars program, please visit the Association of American Medical Colleges

• For more information on the new Fellows Program, open to US medical residents, fellows and post-doctorate fellows in the health sciences, please refer to this RFA.
• To become an International Site for Scholars and/or Fellows, please refer to this RFA.
  

The FICRS Resource and Support Center at VIGH will oversee overall program management, information dissemination and applicant selection, communications, program coordination and logistics, program monitoring and evaluation, organization of educational programs and conferences, and maintain relationships with program alumni. Dr. Sten Vermund is the principal investigator of this grant.

Documents Available for download

•  Scholar Bibliography of Posters, Conferences, & Publications
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•  Bio-Book 2007
  
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