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News from the John E. Fogarty International Center
Senator Jack Reed Hosts FIC Roundtable
 Senator
Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island) hosts FIC at Brown University. Sharon
Hrynkow, Gerald Keusch, and Pierce Gardner recently took part in
a roundtable discussion hosted by Senator Jack Reed on The Role
of the Fogarty International Center in Globalization of Health Care.
The event, held December 18 at Brown University, was the first of
what FIC hopes will be many more such occasions. The roundtable
at Brown celebrated FIC's 35th anniversary and honored Charles C.J.
Carpenter, M.D., 2003 recipient of the John E. Fogarty Recognition
Award for International Health. With members of the late John Fogarty's
family in attendance, Hrynkow, Keusch, and Gardner discussed the
Center's mission, history, and specific ongoing projects and its
role in promoting science for global health. The Rhode Island perspective
on critical global health issues was presented by Anne DeGroot,
M.D., Director and Founder of the Gaia Vaccine Foundation; Kenneth
Mayer, M.D., Director of the Brown-Tufts Fogarty International AIDS
International Research and Training Program; and Chris Butler, Executive
Director of the AIDS Project, Rhode Island. Terrie Wetle, Ph.D.,
Associate Dean of Medicine for Public Health and Public Policy at
Brown and former Deputy Director of the National Institute on Aging,
moderated the discussion. Senator Reed noted that the roundtable
marked "an important milestone for the Fogarty International Center,
which," he said, "has demonstrated a singular commitment to advancing
health through international cooperation." He praised FIC for training
the next generation of health care professionals to work together
to confront new international health challenges that are the inevitable
consequence of increasing globalization.
FIC is planning a series of similar town meetings to explain its
mission at selected venues across the country and raise awareness
of global health research as a benefit to U.S. communities.
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