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2009-2010 FICRS Sites Announced

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Following the deliberation of an external review board of 19 investigators, 24 sites have been selected to serve as FICRS Scholars sites and vetted for eligibility as ICRF Fellows sites; an additional 13 sites have been named vetted ICRF Fellows sites.

 

2009-2010 FICRS Scholars Program Sites and Vetted Fellows Sites

 

ICDDR,B, Bangladesh
Program Director: Alejandro Cravioto, MD


International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
US Partner Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital
US Program Director: Stephen B. Calderwood, MD
International Program Director: Firdausi Qadri, PhD

 
Botswana-Harvard SPH AIDS Initiative Partnership, Botswana
US Partner Institution: Harvard University, Harvard School of Public Health
Program Director: Myron Essex, DVM, PhD

 
Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
US Partner Institution: Weill Cornell Medical College, Division of International medicine and Infectious Diseases
US Program Director: Marshall J. Glesby, MD, PhD
International Program Director: Edgar M Carvalho, MD, PhD

 
Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China
US Partner Institution: Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center
US Program Director: Xiao Ou Shu, MD, PhD
International Program Director: Fan Wu, MD

 
National Center for STD Control, China
US Partner Institution: UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases
US Program Director: Myron S Cohen, MD
International Program Director: Chen Xiangsheng, MD, PhD

 
National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, China
US Partner Institution: Vanderbilt University Institute for Global Health
US Program Director: Han-Zhu Qian, PhD
International Program Director: Ning Wang, MD, PhD

 
GHESKIO, Haiti
US Partner Institution: Weill Cornell Medicial College
US Program Director: Daniel W Fitzgerald, MD
International Program Director: Jean William Pape, MD

 
Public Health Foundation of India, India
US Partner Institution: Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
US Program Director: K.M. Venkat Narayan, MD
International Program Director: Dorairaj Prabhakaran MD, DM,MSc

 
Christian Medical College, India
US Partner Institution: Tufts University School of Medicine
US Program Director: Christine Wanke, MD
International Program Director: Gagandeep Kang, MD, FRCPath, PhD


University of Nairobi, Kenya
US Partner Institution: University of Washington
US Program Director: Carey Farquhar, MD, MPH
International Program Director: James Kiarie, MBChB, Mmed, MPH


Moi University School of Medicine, Kenya
US Partner Institution: The Miriam Hospital
US Program Director: E. Jane Carter, MD
International Program Director: Fabian Esamai, MD

 
UNC Project, Malawi
US Partner Institution: Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
US Program Director: Charles van der Horst, MD
International Program Director: Irving Hoffman, PA, MPH
 

University of Bamako/Mali Service Center, Mali
US Partner Institution: University of Maryland, Balitmore
US Program Director: Christopher V Plowe, MD
International Program Director: Ogobara K Doumbo, MD, PhD

 
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, A.B. PRISMA, Peru
US Partner Institution: Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of International Health
Program Director: Robert H Gilman, MD, DTMH

 
Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in S. Africa, South Africa
US Partner Institution: Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
US Program Director: Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD
International Program Director: Nesri Padayatchi, MD

 
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Investigacion Medica en Salud, Peru
US Partner Institution: University of Washington
Program Director: Joseph R Zunt, MD, MPH

 
Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Tanzania
US Partner Institution: Duke University
Program Director: G. Ralph Corey, MD

 
Muhimbili Univ. of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania
US Partner Institution: Harvard School of Public Health
US Program Director: Wafaie W Fawzi, MD
International Program Director: Japhet Killewo, MD, MPH

 

Research Institute for Health Educations Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
US Partner Institution: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
US Program Director: Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH
International Program Director: Thira Sirisanthana, MD

 
Joint Clinical Research Centre, Uganda
US Partner Institution: Case Western Reserve University
Program Director:  Peter Mugyenyi, MD

 
Mulago Hospital Complex, Uganda
Program Director: Yukari C Manabe, MD

 
Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Zambia
US Partner Institution: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Division of International Women's Health
Program Director: Benjamin Chi, MD, MSc

 

2009-2010 Scholars Site



YR Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education, India
US Partner Institution: The Miriam Hospital
US Program Director: Kenneth Mayer, MD
International Program Director: Suniti Solomon, MD

 

 2009-2010 Vetted Fellows Sites

 
Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Argentina
US Partner Institution: Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
US Program Director: Pierre Buekens, MD, PhD
International Program Director: Jose Belizan, MD, PhD

 

Federal University of Ceara, Institute of Biomedicine and Clinical Research Unit, Brazil
US Partner Institution: University of Virginia
US Program Director: Richard L Guerrant, MD
International Program Director: Aldo A M Lima, MD, PhD

 
Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
US Partner Institution: Univeristy of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
US Program Director: Gregory J Mertz, MD
International Program Director: Pablo Vial, MD

 
National Center on AIDS, China
US Partner Institution: University of California, San Francisco
US Program Director: Jay A Levy, MD
International Program Director: Yiming Shao, MD, PhD

 
The George Institute, China
Program Director: Yangfeng Wu, MD, PhD

 
Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama, Guatemala
US Partner Institution: Inststitute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama- INCAP
US Program Director: Dr. Joaquin Molina Leza
International Program Director: Hernan L Delgado Valenzuela, MD

 
St.John's Medical College and Research Institute, India
Program Director: Denis Xavier, MD

 
University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica
Program Director: Celia DC Christie, MD, DMPeads, MPH, FAAP

 
Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Instituto Mexicano del Sueguro Social, Mexico
US Partner Institution: Scripps Health
Program Director: Sotorios Tsmikias, MD

 
Faculty of Medicine, University Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
US Partner Institution: Vanderbilt University Institute for Global Health
US Program Director: Alfredo Vergara, PhD
International Program Director: Mohsin Sidat, MD, MSc, PhD

 
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru
US Partner Institution: The University of Texas, Medical Branch
US Program Director: A. Clinton White, MD
International Program Director: Martin Montes, MD

 
Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa
International Program Director: Bogani M Mayosi, MB, ChB, Dphil

 
University Hospital Farhat Hached, Tunisia
US Partner Institution: Duluth Medical Research Institute, University of Minnesota Medical School
US Program Director: Mustafa al'Absi, PhD
International Program Director: Hassen Ghannem, MD

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