Category: UJMT News

What if some of the most promising solutions to U.S. health challenges have already been developed elsewhere? That question was at the heart of the inaugural Reciprocal Innovation Workshop, held April 13–16, 2026, in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed for emerging researchers and implementation scientists, the workshop explored how evidence-based interventions developed...

What is the future of global health? In April, attendees of the 2026 annual conference for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) explored possible answers to this question. The Washington, DC meeting, which assembled leaders from academia, government, the private sector, and other organizations, reflected CUGH’s commitment to...

Laika Maganga, a PhD candidate at the School of Nursing and UJMT Fogarty Fellow, is doing her dissertation research in Malawi, drawing on her family roots while centering the lived experiences of young women to take on HIV stigma and support healthier futures.   How has your training and clinical work...

The Institute’s UJMT LAUNCH Fogarty Global Health Fellowship program celebrates two outstanding alumni whose NIH‑supported research is advancing global health science and strengthening the next generation of international investigators. Alex Kayongo Awarded NIH K43 Emerging Global Leader Award Alex Kayongo, MBChB, MSc–a Fogarty-trained immunologist (2016-2017/UJMT Fellow) and global health researcher...

Every month of every year, the Institute’s Office of Global Health Fellowships and Training is buzzing with activity—supporting trainees who are doing research, publishing their work, and sharing discoveries at conferences and seminars. What follows is a month‑by‑month reflection on 2025—including milestones that lay the foundation for global impact.  ...

The Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases is pleased to welcome new fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year, listed below by country. Click on hyperlinked fellows to learn about their research projects. A directory of all global health fellows can be accessed here. Bolivia Democratic Republic of the Congo...

A report published by Lester Gutiérrez, a PhD candidate and IGHID Fellow, provides a new assessment of Giardia lamblia and the pathogenesis of stunting and cognitive growth in children from low- and middle-income countries, published with mentor Luther Bartelt, MD. Giardia is most common during childhood, mainly in low-and-middle income countries. Symptoms...

Benjamin Chi, MD, MSc, director of fellowship programs for the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases (IGHID), announces Dzidzai Muyengwa, MPH, will serve as the new program manager of UJMT LAUNCH, Fogarty International Center’s flagship training program, funded by the National Institutes of Health. “We are delighted to welcome...

UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellow Camille Morgan is an MD-PhD candidate working on her PhD in epidemiology. Currently in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), her project applies epidemiological, spatial, and genomic approaches to the largest-known household study of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in Kinshasa, to understand...

In the remote villages of Bugoye sub-county at the foot of Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains a rolling landscape stretches across lush river valleys and steep hillsides. It’s the kind of terrain that might make for a beautiful and strenuous weekend hike for visitors but not necessarily for the people who live...

The UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellows Consortium (UJMT)–a partnership between UNC-Chapel Hill, Johns Hopkins University, Morehouse School of Medicine and Tulane University–has been renewed for the coming five years. It is one of seven groups to be funded under the new Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH) training initiative,...

Robert Flick is a student at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He has completed both the Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowship and the UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellowship. In this blog post, he shares how these fellowships allowed him to conduct operational research in Malawi and pay tribute to a...