One Health Leader At University of Florida (USA) Receives Fogarty Framework Innovations Grant

Fogarty Framework Innovations Grant

Thursday, October 31, 2013

One Health Leader At University of Florida (USA) Receives Fogarty Framework Innovations Grant http://www.fic.nih.gov/Programs/Pages/framework-innovations.aspx

Project Information: http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8598747&icde=17876817

ONE HEALTH INNOVATION FELLOWSHIPS FOR ZOONOTIC DISEASE RESEARCH IN MONGOLIA – Announced October 30, 2103

To spur global health innovation and develop interdisciplinary research training, Fogarty has awarded $7.3 million to five institutions to fund projects in six low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Five-year awards from the Framework Programs for Global Health Innovation will support efforts to bring together students from engineering, design, ecology, veterinary sciences, nutrition, business and management, medicine, environmental science, social sciences, agriculture, public health and other areas with biomedical scientists to develop research training initiatives that encourage innovation in health-related products, processes and policies. The grants will fund new efforts in India, Malawi, Mongolia, Nigeria, Peru and South Africa. …

The University of Florida will create a diverse [One Health] training program in Mongolia that combines public health, environmental health and veterinary science, with the goal of educating trainees to improve the control of zoonotic diseases.

University of Florida
Principal Investigator:

Gregory C. Gray, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental and Global Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Box 100188, 101 S. Newell Dr, Suite 2150A, Gainesville Florida 32610 (zip for overnight 32611), Tel 352-273-9449, Fax 352-273-6070, Email: gcgray@phhp.ufl.edu, Websites http://egh.phhp.ufl.edu/ and http://gpl.phhp.ufl.edu/.

Dr. Gray is also a member of the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team’s Honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php.