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June 2011
NIH publication features interview with Kenyan researcher
June 21, 2011 -- The latest issue of "Global Health Matters," the newsletter from the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center, includes an interview with researcher Elizabeth Bukusi of the Kenya Medical Research Institute. Bukusi was a panelist at a May event hosted by the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC), where she spoke about how research for global health diseases makes a difference in endemic countries, especially by helping to build capacity at the local level. Bukusi, who received training from the Fogarty Center, said, "I’m a Fogarty scholar and part of my training was in the United States." She added that "because of that I need to give back to people in my country who have not been able to get such training." The latest newsletter also includes an interview with Alex Dehgan, the science and technology advisor at the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Dehgan, who also spoke at the GHTC event, said that his "mission" at USAID "has been restoring science to its rightful place. The basic strategy is threefold: a catalyst to incur change within the agency, a cheerleader for those doing good things for science, and a customer service agency, to help people solve problems, being of benefit to people." See the links below for more information.
