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Brian Vastag

JAMA. 2002;287:1388.

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To give the developing world a research boost, the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun a new program to pay foreign-born, NIH-trained scientists to work in their home countries.

"These scientists have absolutely top-notch training," said Jennifer Cabe, communications officer at the Fogarty Center. "But it's been a fact of life that for years . . . scientists return home and end up working in a shop or somewhere else where they don't put their skills to use."

In an attempt to counter this situation, the center has set aside $1 million per year for the next 5 years to pay partial salaries of researchers from developing countries who go back to them. Universities and other institutions in the scientists' countries of origin will pick up the rest of the tab. With this arrangement, researchers can continue projects begun in the United . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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