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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2016 Jan 4;67(23):2789–2797. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.10.089

TABLE 3.

Selected Resources and Research Funding Opportunities Available to Trainees and Early Career Cardiologists Interested in Global Health

Research Funding Resources
1) NIH
a) Fogarty International Center
List of Fogarty Programs for research funding (24)
Examples of current funding opportunities available via Fogarty International Center

  1. Fogarty Emerging Global Leader Award: available to researchers from low- and middle-income countries (25)

  2. Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars: available to researchers from the United States and low- and middle-income counties (26)

  3. Fulbright-Fogarty Fellows and Scholars in Public Health: available to U.S. citizens only (27)

b) NHLBI:

  1. United Health and NHLBI Collaborating Centers of Excellence: List of collaborating centers of excellence and developed country partners conducting research and training to improve prevention and management of chronic CVD (28)

  2. Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases: List of currently funded research initiatives aimed to reduce the impact of hypertension worldwide (29)

2) Canadian Institutes of Health Research: provides a list of funding opportunities for global health researchers (30)
  • 2)

    Fondation Leducq Transatlantic Networks of Excellence in Cardiovascular and Neurovascular Research: provides funding over 5 yrs to an international collaborative team of researchers working in CVD and neurovascular research (31)

3) European Commission: provides a list of grants for European researchers including those interested in global health (32)
4) List of non-NIH Funding Opportunities in global health research maintained by the Fogarty International Center (33)
Additional Resources and Programs
1) World Heart Federation Emerging Leaders Programme (34)
2) IC-Health: Initiative for Cardiovascular Health Research in the Developing Countries (35)
3) World Health Organization: provides a list of publications, programs, tools focusing on CVD worldwide (36)

CVD = cardiovascular diseases; NIH = National Institutes of Health; NHLBI = National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.