General Information

The meeting will take place virtually (via Zoomgov) from September 27-29, 2023.

Meeting Objectives

The goal of this meeting is for networking among current Fogarty International Center (FIC) grantees working on addressing chronic, non-communicable diseases and disorders across the lifespan in the following FIC programs:

Specific objectives include:

  1. Providing a forum for the grantees, researchers and trainees associated with FIC NCD grants to share about their research and research training programs.
  2. Providing an opportunity for the NIH program administrators to network with FIC NCD program grantees. 
  3. Engaging in thoughtful discussion about key and evolving issues and fields as identified by the attendees and program staff before and at the meeting.

Registration

Please register for this meeting via the Zoomgov registration page.

Speaker Information

For speaker information please refer to the Logistics page.

American Disabilities Act Accommodations Requests

Individuals with disabilities who need accommodations to participate in this event should contact Mackenzie Carter. TTY users should contact NIH Interpreting Services. Requests should be made at least 5 business days in advance of the event.

Zoom Technical Guidance

For assistance with Zoom technical issues or questions, please refer to the 2023 Global NCD Network Meeting Zoom Guidance.pdf.

svg Meeting Contacts

Sessions/Agenda

Day 1 (Sept. 27) - In-Person Session
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
07:30 AM-12:30 PM(EST)
ZOOM
ZOOM,
BETHESDA, MD - 20892
Max.Capacity: 300 No Participants
Agenda:

2023 Global NCD Network Meeting Agenda.pdf 

  • 7:30 am EDT: Zoom opens 
  • 8:00 am: Welcome and housekeeping items
    • Marya Levintova, FIC
    • Peter Kilmarx, FIC
    • Mackenzie Carter, Avanti 
  • 8:20 am: 10-minute presentations, Topic: various NCD programs
    • COALESCE program (Mohammed Ali)
    • Building research capacity in non-communicable diseases in Pakistan (Zainab Samad)
    • Digitalization in gastroenterology - Perspectives from Vietnam (Viet Hang Dao)
    • Building Academic Programs at Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Nepal (Archana Shrestha)
    • Armenia-US collaboration to address chronic disease via education in social determinants of science (ACCESS) (Carla Berg)
    • TBC (Denis Bwayo)
  • Topic: Environmental Health
    • Aflatoxin exposure in a representative sample in Mexico (Martin Lajous)
    • Ambient air quality in Tbilisi, Georgia: An example of critical research at the intersection of environmental health and non-communicable diseases (Tamari Kashibadze)
    • From exposure assessment to heath associations: lessons from GEOHealth Hub India (Siddhartha Mandal)
    • Longitudinal associations between ambient PM2.5 exposure and lipid levels in two Indian cities (Kritika Anand)
  • 10:00 am: Break 
  • 10:15 am: Special Presentation
    • Integrating data science, implementation science and community engagement in NCD treatment delivery: A case study of decentralizing Snakebite Envenoming (SBE) care in the Brazilian Amazon (Charles Gerardo and Joao Viccosi)
  • 11:00 am: 10-minute presentations, Topic: Cancer 
    • Identifying barriers and facilitators to pediatric cancer care in Tanzania (Emily Smith)
    • Looking at breast cancer care in Tanzania (Sarah Kutika Nyagabona)
    • Molecular predictors of treatment responses among patients with chronic myeloid leukemia in Tanzania (Ahlam Nasser)
  • Topic: CVD
    • The cardiometabolic research training program - advancing CVD research and training in Nepal and Kenya (Annette Fitzpatrick)
    • Cardiometabolic risk factors among rural and non-rural adults in Nepal (Biraj Neupane)
    • Association between mild chronic kidney disease and coronary artery disease in persons living with and without HIV in Uganda (Shradha Doshi)
  • 12:00 pm: Discussion
  • 12:30 pm: Adjourn
Day 2 (Sept. 28) - In-Person Session
Thursday, September 28, 2023
08:00 AM-12:30 PM(EST)
ZOOM
ZOOM,
BETHESDA, MD - 20892
Max.Capacity: 300 No Participants
Agenda:

2023 Global NCD Network Meeting Agenda.pdf 

  • 8:00 am EDT: Zoom opens
  • 8:10am: 10-minute presentations, Topic: various NCD programs
    • Acceptability and scalability characteristics of an App designed to triage NCD risk by LHWs in Pakistan (Zeerak Jarrar)
    • Research on dementia in Vietnam (Thanh Xuan Nguyen)
    • TBC (Krithiga Shridhar)
    • Makarere University non-communicable diseases research training (Charles Batte)
    • Coming full circle: bringing together training and mentoring programs in Latin America (Luz Claudio)
    • Secular trend in hip fracture mortality and predictors of mortality from the NSQIP database (Caline Rhayem and Aya Ghosn) 
  • 9:10am: Special presentation
    • NIH Human Subjects System (Rebecca Favor, NIH/OD)
  • 9:50am: 10-minute break
  • 10:00am: 10-minute presentations, Topic: CVD
    • Quality of care and risk estimation of cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy (Farhala Baloch)
    • Cardiac ultrasound training in LICs: Implementation strategies using novel technologies (Gene Kwan)
    • Feasibility and acceptability of an innovative hospital-based educational training for caregivers of patients with severe stroke (Rosa Ecos)
    • Research training: chronic non-communicable CVDs and comorbidities in Peru (Lisa de las Fuentes)
    • Cardiometabolic characteristics of women in Southwestern Uganda from pregnancy to postpartum (Henry Mark Lugobe)
    • TBC (Uchechi Ikechukwu-Orji)
    • A pediatric cardiologist's Fogarty journey (Amy Sanyahumbi) 
  • 11:10am: 5-minute break
  • 11:15am: 10-minute presentations, Topic: various NCD programs
    • United States-Zambia addressing risk factors for non-communicable diseases program (Nino Paichadze)
    • Enhancing non-communicable diseases research and innovation capacity in Harare (ENRICH), Zimbabwe (Justen Manasa)
    • Indoor air pollution and hypertension: use of cookstoves in Haiti (Rodney Sufra)
    • Development, Reproducibility and Validity of the Modified Mediterranean Prime Screen Among Women of Reproductive Age in Lebanon (Sara Ajjour and Mariam Assaad)
    • Building Capacity for Research in South Africa: A Collaboration between the University of California at Los Angeles and the South African Research Consortium (Mashudu Maselesele) 
  • 12:05pm: Discussion
  • 12:30pm: Adjourn 
Day 3 (Sept. 29) - In-Person Session
Friday, September 29, 2023
08:30 AM-11:00 AM(EST)
ZOOM
ZOOM,
BETHESDA, MD - 20892
Max.Capacity: 300 No Participants
Agenda:

2023 Global NCD Network Meeting Agenda.pdf 

  • 8:30am EDT:  Zoom opens
  • 8:35am: 10-minute presentations, Topic: Mental health
    • "One All" to get it RYT (Resilient Youth Tribal adults): A multi centric, participatory, feasibility and effectiveness study (Varadharajan Srinivasan)
    • TBD (Triptish Bhatia)
    • Distress and pain in people living with HIV (Tory Madden)
    • Building the African public mental health postgraduate pipeline (Claire Van der Westhuizen)
  • Topic: various NCDs programs
    • Cultural validation of the multi-mobility treatment burden questionnaire (MTBQ) in Peru: ensuring contextual relevance (Silvana Perez Leon)
    • Educational inequities in obesity in Latin American cities (Monica Mazariegos)
    • JHU/Muhimbili University EMPOWER-TZ (Abdulgafoor Bachani)
    • Building biomedical engineering research and training capacity in Uganda (Andrew Rollins)
  • 10:10am: 5-minute break
  • 10:15am: 10-minute presentations, Topic: CVD
    • Cardiovascular disease care (Ana Peralta Garcia)
    • TBC (Sarah Kiguli)
  • 10:35am: Discussion
  • 11:00am: Meeting adjourned  

Logistics

Registration

Please register for this meeting via the Zoomgov registration page.

Speaker Information

Please upload your presentations here: Global NCD Presentations by September 22nd. We would like to have your presentations, in case you have any technical difficulty when sharing your presentation. 

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More Information

Presenter Contact Information: 2023 Global NCD Meeting Presenter Contact Information.pdf

Information from Rebecca Favor's presentation: NIH Human Subjects System

 

 

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