Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit Participates in a Fogarty International Center Networking Meeting

On May 10-11, 2017, Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU) faculty, including Drs. Adnan Hyder, Abdul Bachani and Nino Paichadze together with colleagues from Makerere University School of Public Health, Drs. Olive Kobusingye and Milton Mutto, participated in a Fogarty International Center (FIC) Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD) Networking Meeting in Rockville, MD. The goal of the meeting was to highlight the FIC grantees under the Chronic, Non-Communicable Diseases and Disorders Across the Lifespan Program. The meeting consisted of workshops, oral presentations and poster presentations from both researchers and trainees.

On the first day of the two-day meeting, Dr. Hyder presented “Building Capacity for Injury Research: A Case Study from Uganda” to highlight the results and achievements of the Johns Hopkins University-Makerere University Chronic Consequences of Trauma, Injury and Disability in Uganda (Chronic TRIAD) Program. Following his presentation, Dr. Hyder participated in a panel discussion alongside Dr. Isabel Scarinci, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Dr. Gail Wyatt, University of California, Los Angeles; Dr. Erausquin, University of South Florida and Dr. Kobusingye, Makerere University.  On the second day of the meeting, the Chronic TRIAD project team presented a poster.

The objectives of the meeting were to: provide a forum for both researchers and trainees to share their research findings through talks and posters; provide opportunities for investigators to network with each other and deepen the collective understanding of research capacity building at in-country sites and engage in thoughtful discussion about current and future work.

To read more about the Chronic TRIAD program, please click here.