Fogarty International Center

What Fogarty International Center does

Fogarty International Center is a U.S. federal agency within the National Institutes of Health, established in 1968 and headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. It is the only NIH center dedicated exclusively to building scientific research capacity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and it operates a portfolio of grant-making and research training programs rather than commercial products. The Center currently administers 439 active research and research training awards, including the LAUNCH program (28 U.S. institutions across seven consortia for pre- and postdoctoral training in global health), the African Postdoctoral Training Initiative (APTI) co-funded with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the African Academy of Sciences, and the Mobile Health (mHealth) Program that funds technology-based health interventions in LMICs. Its scientific platform includes the RAPIDD and MISMS infectious disease modeling networks, which have collaborators in 78–80 countries and have produced 900+ peer-reviewed papers.

Fogarty's funding flows entirely through annual congressional appropriations, supplemented by a congressionally-authorized Gift Fund for donations and bequests; it does not charge fees for its grant programs. The Center's GTM motion is a structured federal grants process delivered through the NIH grants portal (grants.nih.gov) and direct institutional partnerships, with a bimonthly Global Health Matters newsletter and weekly Funding News used to surface opportunities. Communications extend across LinkedIn, Instagram, X, Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube, and the Center maintains an active conference presence (CUGH, ASTMH, IAS). It is staffed by 101–250 employees and is led by Dr. Steven Schiff, who became Director in June 2026 following the resignation of Dr. Peter Kilmarx.

Fogarty's technology stack is built around funded extramural research rather than proprietary platforms. Computer-vision and ML applications for low-resource diagnostics (HemaChrome anemia/sickle cell detection, post-cesarean wound infection detection achieving ~90% accuracy) and epidemiological modeling for pandemic preparedness are the most visible technical outputs. The Center's customer base is bifurcated: upstream it serves a single funder (the U.S. government via HHS/NIH), while downstream it serves a distributed base of U.S. and LMIC academic and NGO partners including Harvard, Purdue, Yale, the African Academy of Sciences, Partners In Health, and AMPATH.

Name

Fogarty International Center

Legal name

John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences

Website

https://fic.nih.gov

Company type

Private

Founded year

1968

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Fogarty International Center is a U.S. federal agency within NIH that funds and runs global health research and training programs for low- and middle-income countries, administering 439 active awards across 78+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Research Funding & Capacity Building

NAICS

Scientific Research and Development Services (5417), Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology) (541714)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Health Research Funding Agencies (Public/Quasi-Public) (HLAJALAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Science, Technology & Innovation Administration (National R&D Policy) (BPAIAAAK), Health & Biomedical Research Universities (Academic Medical Center–Affiliated) (EDAHABAC), Health & Medical Research Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAL)

Keywords

• Global health research
• Research training programs
• Federal grant funding
• Capacity building
• International health collaboration

Headquarters

HQ city

Bethesda

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Federal Government Appropriations: Fogarty International Center receives annual appropriations from the U.S. Congress to support its mission of building scientific research capacity in low- and middle-income countries. The center uses these funds to award grants and research training awards to U.S. and international institutions.
2. Gift Fund Donations: Fogarty is authorized by Congress to accept donations and bequests to support its mission. Donations are deposited in a separate Gift Fund account from congressional appropriations. Donations support research studies, printing of educational materials, and research conferences.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Fogarty International Center is a U.S. federal agency within the National Institutes of Health that funds and coordinates global health research and research training programs for U.S. and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) scientists. It administers grants, postdoctoral and predoctoral fellowships, disease modeling programs (RAPIDD, MISMS), and mobile health (mHealth) research initiatives aimed at building scientific research capacity in developing countries.

Product overview

Fogarty International Center is a U.S. federal government research funding organization at NIH that advances science for global health. Rather than a unified commercial product, it operates a portfolio of research training and funding programs including the Global Health Fellows & Scholars/LAUNCH Program (supporting postdoctoral and predoctoral training through 28 U.S. institutions in 7 consortia), the African Postdoctoral Training Initiative (APTI) in partnership with the African Academy of Sciences and Gates Foundation, and the Mobile Health (mHealth) Program supporting technology-based health interventions in low- and middle-income countries. Fogarty also publishes the bimonthly Global Health Matters Newsletter and provides e-learning resources. Research is organized across strategic focus areas including HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, chronic diseases, brain disorders, and data science for health. The organization coordinates with NIH Institutes and Centers and supports international research collaborations through grant funding to U.S. and LMIC researchers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Global Health Fellows & Scholars / LAUNCH Program Research training program supporting postdoctoral fellows and predoctoral students for mentored global health research placements in LMICs, organized through 28 U.S. institutions across seven consortia.
• African Postdoctoral Training Initiative (APTI) Postdoctoral fellowship program for African researchers that places fellows at NIH intramural labs for two years, then returns them to African home institutions for two additional years of research.
• Mobile Health (mHealth) Program Program that funds multidisciplinary research on mHealth tools and interventions for chronic diseases and other health issues in low- and middle-income countries.
• RAPIDD Infectious Disease Modeling Program Program that establishes networks of global experts in infectious disease modeling, with collaborators across 78 countries, producing peer-reviewed research on pandemic and infectious disease dynamics.
• MISMS Influenza Seasonal Mortality Study Program that strengthens global capacity to study influenza epidemiology and evolutionary dynamics across 80 countries through research activities and training workshops.
• Fogarty Gift Fund (Donations Program) Donation program authorized by Congress to accept gifts and bequests in support of Fogarty's global health mission, deposited in a separate Gift Fund account from congressional appropriations.

Quantifiable outcome

• Trained approximately 6,000 scientists worldwide since 1968
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability8 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• African Academy of Sciences (AAS)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Partnership with African Academy of Sciences and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to operate the African Postdoctoral Training Initiative (APTI), placing African PhD holders in NIH intramural laboratories for two years before returning to African institutions. Established in 2019 with three cohorts of fellows.
• Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (Kenya)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFogarty-funded research collaboration with Purdue University through the AMPATH program to develop smartphone diagnostic applications for detecting anemia and sickle cell disease.
• Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with AMPATH program based in Kenya for mHealth research collaboration with Purdue University on mobile diagnostic technologies.
• Partners In Health (Rwanda)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFogarty-funded research collaboration with Harvard University to develop AI-powered mHealth application for post-cesarean wound infection monitoring in rural Rwanda.
• Friendship Bench Program (Zimbabwe)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartial Fogarty support for developing and evaluating the Friendship Bench mental health program, which trains lay health workers to deliver problem-solving therapy. Now adapted for use in New York City.
• 28 U.S. University Institutions (LAUNCH Consortia)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNetwork of 28 U.S. universities across seven consortia participating in Fogarty's Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH) research training program for postdoctoral and predoctoral placements in LMICs.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Wellcome Trust: A major UK-based global health research foundation that funds biomedical and public health R&D worldwide, including capacity building in LMICs. Comparable mission of supporting global health research training and infrastructure, though privately funded.
• UK Medical Research Council (MRC): UKRI council funding biomedical and global health research including LMIC capacity building partnerships. Comparable portfolio of training grants, infectious disease modeling, and international research collaborations.
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR): Canada's federal health research funding agency with explicit global health research portfolio. Analogous government funding model, peer-review mechanisms, and capacity-building mandate to Fogarty.

Others

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Largest private global health funder; already co-funds Fogarty's APTI program. Operates parallel grant-making in infectious disease, mHealth, and LMIC research capacity building with a much larger endowment-based budget.
• NIH Fogarty-affiliated: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS): Fellow NIH Center supporting translational science innovation. Less of a direct peer than NIAID but operates within the same NIH funding ecosystem and increasingly engages on global health data science initiatives relevant to Fogarty's portfolio.

Direct peers

• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — Global Health Center: Another HHS component operating global health programs, including Field Epidemiology Training Programs (FETPs) in 80+ countries that directly parallel Fogarty's research training mission.
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID): A fellow NIH Institute/Center that funds large-scale infectious disease and global health research. NIAID operates analogous extramural grant programs and shares Fogarty's LMIC research footprint and grant-making infrastructure.
• World Health Organization (WHO) — Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR): Co-sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank, and WHO, TDR funds research capacity building and training for infectious diseases of poverty in LMICs — directly overlapping Fogarty's training mission and disease focus.
• USAID Bureau for Global Health: U.S. federal agency funding global health programs including research, training, and health systems strengthening in LMICs. Shares congressional funding risk profile and overlapping programmatic priorities with Fogarty.

Regional players

• European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP): EU-funded partnership supporting clinical trials and research capacity building in sub-Saharan Africa. Highly comparable mission of funding LMIC-led research training, though operating under European governance.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/FogartyNIH
• Facebookfacebook.com/fogarty.nih
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/2361054
• Instagraminstagram.com/fogarty_nih

Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

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