New fellowship opportunities in Brazil (Rio), India (Mysore), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Peru (Lima) and Uganda (Kampala) are now available! Details about these new training sites and projects are described below.
AFRICA
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa University, School of Public Health
Site contact: Elizabeth Bradley, PhD (Yale)
Project: Health systems research and implementation in Ethiopia
Kenya
University of Nairobi and KEMRI
Site contact: Michele Barry, MD, FACP (Stanford) and Brian Blackburn, MD (Stanford)
Project: Infectious diseases in urban vs. rural slums
Uganda
Makerere University
Site contact: Serap Aksoy, PhD (Yale)
Project: Tsetse-transmitted African trypanosomiasis
Makerere University
Site contact: Sunil Parikh, MD, MPH (Yale)
Project: Malaria
Zimbabwe
University of Zimbabwe
Site contact: David Katzenstein, MD (Stanford)
Project: AIDS prevention, STDs
ASIA
Bangladesh
International Center for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B)
Site contact: Michele Barry, MD, FACP (Stanford) and Steve Luby, MD (Stanford)
Project: Diarrheal & chronic noncommunicable diseases in slums
China
Chinese CDC and China's National Institute of Environmental Health and Related Product Safety
Site contact: Tongzhang Zheng, DSc (Yale)
Project: Cancer; Environmental health; maternal and child health
Sichuan Institute of Parasitic Diseases and Chinese CDC
Site contact: Robert Spear, PhD and Edmund Seto, PhD (UC Berkeley)
Project: Environmental health and dam construction
India
Sri Ramachandra University, Dept of Environmental Health Engineering
Site contact: Kirk Smith, MPH, PhD (UC Berkeley)
Project: Environmental health and air pollution
Public Health Research Institute of India (PHRII)
Site contact: Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD (FIU)
Project: Slum health and health disparities in rural populations
Malaysia
University of Malaya
Site contact: Frederick Altice, MD, MA (Yale)
Project: HIV, Tuberculosis and Viral Hepatitis Prevention and Treatment in Criminal Justice and Community Health Settings
EUROPE
Russia
Pavlov State Medical University
Site contact: Robert Heimer, PhD, Msc (Yale)
Project: HIV, Hepatitis C, drug addiction
Ukraine
Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy
Site contact: Frederick Altice, MD, MA (Yale)
Project: HIV, HCV, & TB prevention & treatment, substance abuse, & prisoners
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
Brazil
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)-Yale
Site contact: Albert Ko, MD (Yale)
Project: Urban slum health
Site contact: Lee Riley, MD (UC Berkeley)
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and State University of Rio de Janeiro: project on Drug-resistant healthcare and community-onset infections, TB epidemiology and diagnostics, slum disease burden assessment
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) site: project on TB, drug-resistant infections
Nicaragua
Ministry of Health
Site contact: Eva Harris, PhD (UC Berkeley)
Project: Dengue; Influenza transmission
Peru
Asociación Civil Impacta Salud y Educación
Site contact: Frederick Altice, MD, MA (Yale)
Project: HIV prevention and treatment among men who have sex with men (MSM)
Trinidad and Tobago
University of the West Indies, St. Augustine and ECHORN
Site contact: Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, M.H.S (Yale)
Project: Non-Communicable Diseases (Diabetes, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease)
