The National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center has awarded $9 million in grants to support eight global health informatics partnerships between U.S.-based providers and providers in low- and middle-income countries.
The grants, which are being provided through Fogarty's Informatics Training for Global Health program, will be used to train scientists in the design of informatics systems that can be used by researchers and physicians worldwide to share best practices and collaborative research data.
The award recipients include informatics-development collaborations between the University of Pittsburgh and Javeriana University in Bogota, Colombia; Oregon Health and Science University and the Italian Hospital in Buenos Aires; and Vanderbilt University and the National AIDS Research Institute in Pune, India and the National Institute of Epidemiology in Chennai, India.