Our Webmaster has posted a link and photos on of the Daemen College website.  These were provided by the recent travelers to Laos.  The link is as follows:

http://www.daemen.edu/offices/global-programs/ICGH.php

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Hello.  If you have any revisions for our Members/Contact page, please send an email to Doris Murphy at dmurphy@daemen.edu.

• Also, a friendly reminder:  
  We have set up a “List Serve Email Discussion Group” : icgh-global-health@daemen.edu
  
  You may conveniently use this email address to send immediate messages to the entire ICGH membership.  Additional names may be added as the need arises.  Also, as a reminder, when using the “list serve” email, your message AND responses go to EVERYONE on the list. 

  As always, please continue posting to our BLOG http://blogger.daemen.edu/globalhealth.  

Thank you!

Purpose. Support for the creation of new, multidisciplinary educational programs that will foster Global Health research and teaching within and between institutions, to be called Framework Programs for Global Health.  Fogarty International Center (FIC) and collaborating Institutes (NCI, NIEHS, NINDS, and NIBIB) invite applications for up to three years of support for the creation of new, multidisciplinary programs that will foster Global Health research and teaching within and between institutions, to be called Framework Programs for Global Health.  Specifically, the objectives of this FOA are (1) to increase interactions and joint activities among investigators already engaged in Global Health teaching and research within a campus and among institutions; (2) to encourage new investigators from diverse faculties and disciplines and new institutions to enter the Global Health field; and (3) to build curricula and develop educational opportunities that will engage the next generation of scientists and health workers to consider careers in Global Health.   Two core activities will be to create an administrative framework to bring multiple schools (engineering, economics, business, law, arts and sciences, communications, public health, medicine, nursing, veterinary sciences, environmental studies, agriculture, and others) together on the topic of Global Health and to develop multidisciplinary Global Health curricula at the undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, and/or professional school levels.  http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-TW-08-001.html

hso1-pagesummary.pdf
This PDF document was recently sent to me by Dr. Erika Frank at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Though you all might find it interesting.  I will appreciate receiving your comments and thoughts.
Ed Clausen   

Eligible Applicants 

For profit organizations other than small businesses.  Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.  Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.  Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) - Small businesses, Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education. 

Agency Name:  National Institutes of Health - Description:  The NICHD invites applications from investigators willing to participate under a cooperative agreement in an ongoing multi-center international research network designed to perform randomized clinical trials, using common protocols, to reduce the major risk of maternal, neonatal, infant, and early childhood mortality and significant morbidity in resource-poor countries. The purpose of this solicitation is to complement the existing Global Network with the addition of Research Units from Africa and India. .
Link to Full Announcement:  http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-07-016.html

Thanks to Dr. Tommaso Cavalli-Sforza, we have added 8 more documents under the PROPOSALS tab at the top of the ICGH Blog Home Page.

These include:

* 1-Philippines Reaching the Urban Poor
* 2-Vietnam Integrated Child Survival
* 3-Mongolia ICT supported Antenatal Care Management
* 4-Cambodia Mass Media Campaign on Healthy Pregnancy
* 5-Mongolia Upgrading Regional Nursing and MidWifery Education
* 6-Nutrition Information for Decision-Making
* 7-China Proposal Food Safety in Wet Markets
* 8-China Olympic Games 2008-Contingency Plans & Risk Communication in Food Safety

Description - The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces the availability of fiscal year 2007 funds for a grant program for a Regional Collaborative for the Pacific Basin to serve as a regional health policy body for the six Pacific Basin jurisdictions (American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau). The Regional Collaborative is intended to serve as a formal mechanism to discuss common health interests, problems and concerns; to promote and enhance a regional approach for cost-effective sharing of resources, information, and human expertise to advance health care improvements in the Pacific Basin; and to provide technical assistance to the Pacific Basin jurisdictions. Link to Full Announcement  https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?ID=3030FC43-893A-415F-87DB-B55198D23E13

We just put on the internet site of the “www.silkhome.net” a new video on Laos and silk production.  Please inform Prof. Clausen and the others of the Consortium, if they wish to see a “beautiful” video!!!!!!.Comments welcome!! Thanks and regards.  Giovanni Deodato 

global-health-meetings-march-2007-breeze.doc

This document provides the URLs for viewing the BREEZE recordings from the Global Health Planning Meetings held at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, March 21-22, 2007.

There are four separate sessions listed by morning and afternoon times.

Thank you.

At the top of the BLOG, you will now see a new TAB for each of the following:

* Current Projects

* Proposals [currently under review]