Fogarty_International_Center

John E. Fogarty International Center

John E. Fogarty International Center

Part of the United States National Institutes of Health

The John E. Fogarty International Center was founded in 1968 by US President Lyndon Johnson at the National Institutes of Health to support international medical and behavioral research and to train international researchers.[citation needed]

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History

On July 1, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson issued an Executive Order establishing the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in order to support international medical and behavioral research and to train international researchers.[1] In March 2017, the Trump Administration proposed cuts to the NIH budget, including elimination of the Fogarty Center, saving $69 million.[2]

Congressional appropriations to the FIC[3][4]
Fiscal years 1980–2019

Directors

Past directors from 1968 - present[5]

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References

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from John E. Fogarty International Center. United States Department of Health and Human Services.

  1. [1]
    "Fogarty International Center". Archived from the original on 12 September 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  2. [2]
    Donald G. McNeil Jr. Trump Plan Eliminates a Global Sentinel Against Disease, Experts Warn New York Times, 17 March 2017, retrieved 12 July 2018
  3. [3]
    "Appropriations (Section 2)". National Institutes of Health (NIH). 25 March 2019.
  4. [4]
    "NIH — Office of Budget" (PDF). officeofbudget.od.nih.gov.
  5. [5]
    "FIC Directors". www.nih.gov.

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