The Johns Hopkins
Center for Global Health recently announced its
Framework Program in
Global Health award winners for spring 2008. Seventeen
students were selected to receive the
awards, which range in value from $3,000 to $5,000.
The objective of the program is to enhance the
recruitment of students into global health
research and practice careers by providing them the means to
work with faculty mentors and to travel
overseas to gain valuable experience. To be considered for
the award, all students submitted a
research project proposal based in an international
location.
Consistent with the program's goal to support students
in a wide range of disciplines necessary
to respond to today's global health challenges, this group
of awardees features students pursuing
degrees in a variety of fields.
The winners, their field of study (the * denotes
student in multiple programs) and their
research locations are as follows:
School of Advanced International Studies:
Theodore Alcorn, MA candidate in international
affairs, Ghana*.
School of Arts & Sciences: Dylan Cote, BA
candidate in public health studies, Malawi; Julia
Driessen, PhD candidate in economics, Bangladesh; and
Kristin Lehner, PhD candidate in the history of
Africa, Mali.
School of Engineering: Stefanie Falconi, MS
candidate in environmental engineering, South
Africa.
School of Medicine: Ferhina Ali, MD candidate,
India; Adam Iddriss, MD candidate, the Gambia;
Lisa Patel, MD candidate, Peru; and Adrienne Shapiro, MD
candidate, South Africa*.
School of Public Health: Theodore Alcorn, MHS
candidate in international health, Ghana*;
James Cope, PhD candidate in health policy and management,
Jordan; Britt Ehrhardt, MHS candidate
in social and behavioral interventions, South Africa;
Christine Fu, PhD candidate in social networks,
normative influence and social change, China; Jewel Gausman,
MHS candidate in social and behavioral
interventions, Bangladesh; Lauren Kleutsch, MSH candidate in
social and behavioral interventions,
South Africa; Melinda Munos, MHS candidate in global disease
epidemiology and control, Bangladesh;
Adrienne Shapiro, PhD candidate in epidemiology and
infectious diseases, South Africa*; Savitha
Subramanian, DrPH candidate in international health, India;
and Sarah Wampold, MHS candidate in
global disease epidemiology and control, South Africa.
Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health was launched in
May 2006 to facilitate and focus the
extensive expertise and resources of the Johns Hopkins
Institutions, together with global
collaborators, to effectively address and ameliorate the
world's most pressing health issues.
The center helps to broker collaboration among nearly
two dozen existing programs in the
schools of Public Health, Medicine and Nursing; together,
those programs already operate more than
400 projects around the world. The center also seeks out and
secures funding for new initiatives,
recruits faculty to address emerging global health issues
and trains students to be the global health
leaders of tomorrow.
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