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{{Short description|Part of the United States National Institutes of Health}}
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|agency_name     = John Edward Fogarty International Center
|logo            = Logo-Fogarty-International-Center-US-National-Institutes-of-Health-NIH.png
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|formed          = July 1, 1968
|headquarters    = Bethesda, Maryland
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|parent_agency   = [[Organization:National Institutes of Health|National Institutes of Health]]
|website         = {{URL|www.fic.nih.gov}}
|footnotes       =
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The '''John E. Fogarty International Center''' was founded in 1968 by US President Lyndon Johnson at the [[Organization:National Institutes of Health|National Institutes of Health]] to support international medical and behavioral research and to train international researchers.{{cn|date=September 2022}}

==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 [[Organization:National Institutes of Health|National Institutes of Health]] (NIH) in order to support international medical and behavioral research and to train international researchers.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fogarty International Center|url=http://www.fic.nih.gov/|access-date=27 April 2018|archive-date=12 September 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070912032926/http://www.fic.nih.gov/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In March 2017, the Trump Administration proposed cuts to the NIH budget, including elimination of the Fogarty Center, saving $69 million.<ref>Donald G. McNeil Jr. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/health/global-health-fogarty-international-center-viruses.html Trump Plan Eliminates a Global Sentinel Against Disease, Experts Warn ] New York Times, 17 March 2017, retrieved 12 July 2018</ref>

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== Directors ==
Past directors from 1968 - present<ref>{{cite web|title=FIC Directors|url=https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/nih-almanac/fogarty-international-center-fic|website=www.nih.gov}}</ref>

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|-
!Portrait
!Director
!Took office
!Left office
|-
|[[File:Milo_D._Leavitt.jpg|100px]]
|Milo D. Leavitt, Jr.
|June 16, 1968
|July 1978
|-
|[[File:(FIC)_Director_Leon_Jacobs.jpg|100px]]
|Leon Jacobs
|July 1, 1978
|June 29, 1979
|-
|[[File:Noimage.svg|100px]]
|Edwin D. Becker (acting)
|July 1979
|April 1980
|-
|[[File:Noimage.svg|100px]]
|Vida H. Beaven (acting)
|April 1980
|January 1981
|-
|[[File:Dr. Claude Lenfant (27825192676).jpg|100px]]
|Claude Lenfant
|February 1981 
|July 1982
|-
|[[File:Mark_Beaubien.jpg|100px]]
|Mark S. Beaubien (acting)
|July 1, 1982
|January 1984
|-
|[[File:Noimage.svg|100px]]
|Craig K. Wallace
|January 1984
|December 1987
|-
|[[File:Image of Dr. Carl Kupfer.jpg|100px]]
|Carl Kupfer (acting)
|January 1, 1988
|July 1988
|-
|[[File:Philip_E._Schambra.jpg|100px]]
|Philip E. Schambra
|August 1998
|September 30, 1998
|-
|[[File:Gerald T. Keusch.jpg|100px]]
|Gerald T. Keusch
|October 1, 1998
|December 31, 2003
|-
|[[File:Noimage.svg|100px]]
|Sharon H. Hrynkow (acting)
|January 1, 2004
|May 2006
|-
|[[File:Roger I. Glass.jpg|100px]]
|Roger I. Glass
|June 11, 2006
|Present
|-
|}

==References==
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