The mission of the Fogarty International Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, under the Department of Health and Human Services, is to support training in and capacity building for biomedical research in low- and middle-income countries. In support of the mission, the Integrated Network of Scholars in Global Health Research Training or INSIGHT program, sponsored by the FIC, provides early career U.S. and LMIC trainees - such as medical and graduate students and recent post-doctorates - a one-year mentored research training at established biomedical research universities in LMICs and with the trainee’s assigned U.S. institution.

Dr. George Ashu is a humanitarian physician and researcher from Cameroon. After obtaining an MD from the University of Yaoundé in Cameroon, he went on to obtain a Master's of Science at Queen Margaret University, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Where he is currently working on his PhD.

Ashu has worked with the Cameroon Ministry of Public Health and Africa Humanitarian Action, where he has led medical teams to offer primary healthcare to refugees from the Central African Republic. He is also the founder of Eden Global Missions, a Cameroon based non-profit offering free life-saving primary care to thousands of Cameroonians, internally displaced people, and refugees. 

Ashu has received multiple international awards including the Mandela Washington Fellowship, two Commonwealth Scholarships, and the NIH FIC INSIGHT grant. His current research with the Sparkman Center, Dr. Janet Turan, Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services, and Dr. Tih Pius Muffih analyzes HIV treatment amongst people who have been displaced by conflict in Cameroon.