Mini-Sabbatical Award Announced

To encourage the injection of new ideas and approaches into our institution’s research and to ignite research team members’ professional growth, the BU-CTSI introduced a new mini-sabbatical program for members of the research team and for faculty to spend up to three months outside BU learning new skills outside their own discipline. Mentored faculty, post-doctoral scholars, project coordinators, and research staff were eligible to apply.

In 2015, the BU-CTSI awarded Thamarah Crevecoeur, MS, a mini-sabbatical for her project titled “Determining & Implementing Strategies that Favor High Fidelity in Clinical Practice among Medical Practitioners and Community Health Workers after Training in Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI), Riviere Froide, Haiti”. As a Haitian-American nurse midwife, with the appropriate language skills and ample field experience in the areas of midwifery and Neonatal Resuscitation Training, she has witnessed firsthand the tragic effects of childhood illness and death in the community. Furthermore, as a DrPH candidate in the BU School of Public Health, she has been granted the opportunity to work part-time as a member of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) team on the Medicines for Humanity Riviere Froide project.