(From left) Tatev Gomtsyan and Caroline Rich, UVA students; Dr. Frank Thobias Adel, KIDH medical doctor; and Thobias Magati, MKUTA Coordinator for tuberculosis survivors’ group examine clinical workflow.
A decades-long partnership with UVA School of Medicine faculty and institutions in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania now supports two NIH-Fogarty International Center research training grants.
The D43 grant to support Tanzanian post-doctoral scientists and a new G11 grant to develop research administrators carry the complementary aim to grow research capacity for U.S. and Tanzanian scientists to collaborate and compete for new research funding in priority areas including undernutrition, HIV, and tuberculosis.
With research infrastructure built over decades in the UVA Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, and through the pan-university Center for Global Health Equity, undergraduate, masters, and medical students join Tanzanian post-doctoral students and early career scientists.
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