As the global COVID-19 pandemic continued to evolve in 2022, Fogarty reflected on the many accomplishments of its trainees and grantees while also looking ahead to what still needs to be done. Pandemic preparedness, COVID response, and global health security topped the list along with climate change and equity in global health research.

Year's end brought news of the impending conclusion of a singular chapter in theFogarty International Center's history. In early 2023,Roger Glass steps down as Fogarty's Directorafter nearly 17 years. His legacyas a leader, a scientific researcher, and a global health advocateendures.

The following selections from readers and editors ofGlobal Health Mattersdemonstrate Fogarty's continued dedication to support, fund, and train the next generation of global health leaders in 2023 and beyond.

Fogarty Fellow Sikhulile Moyo was recognized for discovering omicron, the now-dominant strain of COVID-19. He discussed how skills he learned as a Fogarty grantee prepared him for COVID during a Fogarty-sponsored panel onhow capacity building leads to pandemic preparedness. Grantees and trainees reflected on howFogarty's response to the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreakprepared a new generation of researchers in the region. Several Fogarty and NIH-funded projects are researchingthe global toll of antimicrobial resistance, a risk to global health security as threatening as diseases with pandemic potential.

Fogarty and partners held a webinar series onlessons learned from global food and nutrition insecurityhighlighting innovative research projects in global settings and opportunities for adaptation in the U.S. To help build health resilience in communities around the world, NIH unveiled a framework for theNIH Climate Change and Health Initiativein early 2022. Later in the year,Fogarty grantees were awarded supplemental climate change research funding. Fogarty Deputy Director Peter Kilmarx and former Fogarty staff member Ezinne Akudinobi co-authored a paper ontracking equity through authorshipin Fogarty-funded publications. This project reflects a larger NIH initiative where Fogarty and partners requested input ongreater equity in global health research. Responses will help identify approaches NIH might take to promote greater equity in research conducted in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs).

The Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) wrapped up after 10 years, butH3Africa resources endure beyond its end, most notably the H3ABionet repository and the H3Africa Consortium which includes members from more than 30 countries. Michelle Groome went from Fogarty grantee toleader at National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD),South Africa; Robert Samuel hopes to findthe true burden of RSV and influenza among the youngest childrenin Sierra Leone; and Mohamed Seif El-din is working toreduce injuries in Egypt.These are just a few stories illustrating the Center's continues its commitment to helping buildthe next generation of low- and middle-income country (LMIC) leaders.

FogartyFellows and Scholars, early career scientists who spend a year of mentored research abroad, continue to make a difference. Projects highlighted in GHM include: evaluatingnurse-led PrEP delivery in Uganda, tacklingsickle cell disease in Tanzania, and improving theoral health of Kenyan teens living with HIV. Fogarty-funded projects continue to focus on global health challenges that may receive inadequate attention likeinjuries and deaths from snakebitesandkonzo, a paralyzing diseasethat can occur when malnutrition coincides with the use of bitter cassava as a food staple.

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