1968年7月1日，林登·约翰逊总统发布了一项行政命令，在美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）建立了约翰·福格蒂国际健康科学高级研究中心。

美国福格蒂国际中心（FIC）致力于通过支持和促进美国和国际研究人员进行的全球卫生研究，在美国和国外的卫生研究机构之间建立伙伴关系，以及培训下一代科学家以满足全球卫生需求，推进NIH的使命。

50多年来，对FIC国际研究和研究培训计划的支持已从第一年的50万美元预算增长到2020财年的8100万美元。该中心的研究、培训和能力建设事业扩展到100多个国家，涉及美国和国外约5000名科学家。

成立以来，FIC通过对科学劳动力进行基础投资，开发能够快速响应的全球研究网络，利用新工具和研究方法，关注流行病，气候变化和社会不公正等新兴的全球挑战以及作为NIH国际事务的焦点，为应对不断变化的世界奠定了基础。

On July 1, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson issued an executive order establishing the John Fogarty Center for International Center for Advanced Study in Health Sciences at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The Fogarty International Center (FIC) is dedicated to advancing the NIH's mission by supporting and promoting global health research conducted by U.S. and international researchers, building partnerships between health research institutions in the U.S. and abroad, and training the next generation of scientists to meet global health needs.

For more than 50 years, support for the FIC International Research and Research Training Program has grown from a first-year budget of $500,000 to $81 million in fiscal 2020. The center's research, training, and capacity building efforts have expanded to more than 100 countries, involving approximately 5,000 scientists in the United States and abroad.

Since its founding, FIC has laid the foundation for responding to a changing world by making fundamental investments in the scientific workforce, developing a global research network that can respond quickly, utilizing new tools and research methods, focusing on emerging global challenges such as pandemics, climate change, and social injustice, and being the focal point of NIH's international affairs.