The Fogarty International Center at...

The Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has single outed seven U.S. universities to participate in a just discovered program that addresses the growing cargo of trauma and injury-related morbidity and mortality in developing countries. The International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Research Training Program pairs institutions in high-income countries with institutions in middle- and low-income countries to train researchers in basic and applied sciences, risk factor epidemiology, acute care and survival, rehabilitation, and long-term mental health conclusions of trauma and injury. Training also may focus upon relatively low-cost technologies such as radiology and ultrasonography, ventilators, optimal resuscitation fluids, life-blood substitutes, and materials to protect wounds in burn victims. The program will provide up to $150000 by year for up to five years for the following institutions: the University of Rochester (NY) the University of Maryland (Baltimore), the John Hopkins University (Baltimore), the University of Washington (Seattle), the University of Iowa (De Moines), Emory University (Atlanta), and the University of California at looks Angeles. Additional information about the program is available online at http://www.fic.nih.gov/programs/Trauma.htm.

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