Win a Trip 2012: Nicholas Kristof’s Invitation to Enter

December 18th, 2012 in Fellowships

Please click here to learn more about Nick Kristof’s contest to travel and report in a developing nation with him. Great opportunity for IH students!

The New York Times “Win a Trip with Nick” Contest (“Contest”) begins at 12:00:00 AM Eastern Time (“ET”) on December 6, 2012 and ends at 11:59:59 PM ET on January 13, 2013 (“Contest Entry Period”).

$4,000 scholarships available for public health students and graduates doing infectious disease research in developoing countries

December 17th, 2012 in Funding

The NEWAID Foundation is currently offering grants to MPH students, students in public health related masters programs, and recent public health graduates for infectious disease research in developing countries. Our foundation provides stipends for fellows to conduct neglected infectious diseases research in developing countries. These diseases include, but are not limited to: tuberculosis, malaria, trypanosomiasis, filariasis, schistosomiasis, dengue fever, leishmaniasis, leptospirosis and enteric pathogens. Projects should evaluate either the molecular, behavioral, social, or interventional epidemiology associated with these diseases.

Applicants for NEWAID fellowships do not need to be United States citizens, but must be enrolled at an accredited graduate institution within the United States pursuing a Masters degree in Public Health, or a Masters Degree with similar coursework and training (such as MS Epidemiology programs and MHS programs in Public Health). Recent MPH graduates who have finished their education within the past 2 years are also welcome to apply. MD students and PhD students are not eligible to apply during this funding cycle, though we hope to expand our programs in the future. Projects must include field work of 6 weeks or longer outside of the United States.

Research grants for amounts up to $4,000 will be awarded, along with travel grants up to $750. Our online application, and more information can be found on our website www.newaid.org . Applications for this cycle are due February 15, 2013.

MGH looking for a PT research interviewer

December 17th, 2012 in Volunteer

MGH is searching for a part-time research interviewer who lives in the Boston area for their project with adolescent mothers residing in teen living programs in the Boston metro and suburban areas (e.g., Dorcester, Roxbury, Somerville, Brockton, Newburyport). They are looking for someone who has flexibility in their schedules, can relate well to high-risk adolescent girls, very attentive to details and importantly, has research interviewing experience and a car. Most of the assessments take place on laptop computers so they are not looking for someone to do qualitative interviews, mainly quantitative and computerized tasks. Most of the interviews will be conducted in the late afternoon/early evening. This is a perfect position for a doctoral or master's student in psychology, public health, education, or related field. 

Please contact Marya Gwadz at mvgwadz@gmail.com

Seats still available in MC730 “Leading Teams to Face Challenges and Acheive Results in Public Health” Approved and highly recommended for IH Concentrators!

December 14th, 2012 in Fellowships

Course: SPH MC 730
Title: Leading Teams to Face Challenges and Achieve Results in Public Health

2 Credits Wednesdays, January 16th-March 13th 6:00PM-8:45PM

Description: This course equips students with the theoretical knowledge and applied practices to lead teams to achieve results in public health settings. In addition to understanding leadership theory and analyzing public health cases, the course includes an experiential learning process, ideal for public health professionals who aspire to be effective leaders for change. Teams will work together to teach both theory and practical tools to mobilize groups and achieve results. Participants in this course cannot also take MC802 which covers similar materials in a field‐based course.

Latin American Practicum Info Session January 24th 5-6PM in L201, BUSM

December 14th, 2012 in Practicums/Internships

Come learn about a 6 week Brookline Sister City Summer project in Quezalguaque, Nicaragua starting in early or mid June- early August.

Building on earlier BU Public Health School projects they propose a 2 part intervention for this agricultural community.

1. 'Water While Working' public health awareness project.

2. Re-invigoration of a home health worker program in the hamlets around Quezalguaque. 

Students need to be fluent in Spanish, be willing to live in a rustic setting, pay for their flight (about $700), room and board ($55 a week) and other miscellaneous expenses, (about $2000 total). Brookline sister city will pay for expenses for the project, and hire local college students from Quezalguaque to guide the students around and help them with the projects.

Peter Moyer MD, former director of the Emergency Dept. at BMC will be the BU faculty member and be with the students for the 1st week. He will supervise the students by telephone after that.

Kenya Field Practicum Info Session January 23rd 5-6PM in CT305

December 14th, 2012 in Practicums/Internships

Interested in the summer Kenya Field Practicum in Public Health and Environment? Come to our last info session for the summer 2013 session. Learn about logistics, finances, previous projects, and more!

Summer 2013 in Washington, DC with GHFP! Applications due January 28th

December 13th, 2012 in Fellowships

Make summer 2013 your career stepping stone
The Global Health Fellows Program II is pleased to announce its newly-opened Summer 2013 internships with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in the Agency's Washington, DC headquarters. These positions consist of a summer cohort of 21.

Work with the largest development agency in the world
USAID is home to a wide range of global health professionals working on health projects of international scope and importance. Contribute your skills to specific activities in one of the offices in USAID's Bureau for Global Health-Office of the Assistant Administrator, Office of HIV/AIDS, Office of Population and Reproductive Health, Office of Health, Infectious Diseases and Nutrition, and the Office of Programming, Planning, and Policy.

These internships will provide you a unique opportunity to gain practical experience in the field of global health. You'll be working with experienced professionals on health projects of international importance.

 If you would like to learn more about what it's like to be a GHFP-II intern, check out this great video made by a GHFP-II 2012 Summer Alumna.

Technical areas include:

  • Infectious diseases: HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria
  • Maternal and child health
  • Reproductive health
  • Nutrition
  • Commodities and logistics
  • Youth Programming
  • Demography   

A variety of competitive, positions are available. While most positions are at the graduate level, some positions are also open to undergraduate students who meet certain criteria, as well as some that will be challenging for PhD candidates. We are interested in people from a broad range of disciplines including:

  • Public health
  • Social work
  • Education
  • International relations/development
  • Supply chain management
  • Medicine
  • Nursing /midwifery
  • Public policy
  • Pharmacy
  • Business administration
  • Population and demographic studies
  • Communications

To apply: Detailed information, including an online application and instructions, is available on our website at

www.ghfp.net.    

NOTE: All internships require US citizenship or permanent resident status.

GHFP-II's Summer 2013 internships in Washington, DC include:

 Bureau for Global Health's Office of the Assistant Administrator

Children in Adversity Intern
The Center to Accelerate Innovation, Introduction and Impact Intern

 Office of HIV/AIDS; Implementation Support Division
HIV/AIDS Condom Programming Intern

 Office of HIV/AIDS; Strategic Planning, Evaluation and Reporting Division

HIV/AIDS Health Systems Strengthening Intern

 Office of HIV/AIDS; Technical Leadership and Research Division  

HIV/AIDS Research Intern (potentially 2 hires)
HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Intern
HIV/AIDS Testing and Counseling Intern
HIV Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) Intern

HIV Pediatric Care and Treatment Intern

HIV/AIDS Care and Support Intern

 Office of Population and Reproductive Health, Policy; Evaluation & Communication Division

Behavior Change Communication Intern
Demographic and Health Surveys Intern

Office of Population and Reproductive Health; Commodities Security and Logistics Division

Contraceptive Commodities Security & Logistics Intern

Office of Population and Reproductive Health; Service Delivery Improvement Division

Youth Program Strengthening Intern (Undergraduate and Graduate)

Office of Health, Infectious Diseases and Nutrition; Infectious Diseases Division

Global Health Tuberculosis Program Intern
Global Health Tuberculosis Program Intern
NOTE: The two TB Program Internships have separate deliverables and separate activities. Please review them both before applying

Office of Health, Infectious Diseases and Nutrition; Maternal and Child Health Division

Maternal and Child Health Commodities Intern
Maternal and Child Health Communications Intern (Undergraduate and Graduate)  

Health Research Analyst Intern 

Office of Program, Planning, and Policy; Strategy, Analysis, Outreach, and Evaluation Division

Monitoring and Evaluation Intern

INTERNSHIP DATES: May 28, 2013 - August 20, 2013

APPLICATION DEADLINE: All applications must be submitted by 5:00 pm Eastern Time January 28, 2013.

 Applicants can apply for up to two internship positions. If you apply for a Winter On-Demand Internship, you will only be allowed to apply for one Summer 2013 Internship.

 We are proud to be an EEO/AA Employer.

 To learn more about GHFP-II, please visit www.ghfp.net. To learn more about USAID, the largest government donor organization in the development field, please visit www.usaid.gov.

 You can also find us on Facebook and LinkedIn!

Winter 2013 internships in Washington, DC with GHFP! Applications due Dec. 18th

December 13th, 2012 in Fellowships

GHFP-II is currently accepting applications for Two On-Demand Internships with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in the Agency's Washington, DC headquarters. These internships are separate from our Summer 2013 Internships.

 If you would like to learn more about what it's like to be a GHFP-II intern, check out this great video made by a GHFP-II 2012 Summer Alumna.

 Internship Timeframe: Winter 2013

 GHFP-II's Winter 2013 internships in Washington, DC include:

Office of Population and Reproductive Health; Commodities Security and Logistics Division

Contraceptive Commodities Security & Logistics Intern

OND-P2-001

Office of HIV/AIDS; Strategic Planning, Evaluation, and Reporting Division

Global Health Monitoring and Evaluation Intern

OND-P2-002

 APPLICATION DEADLINE: All applications must be submitted by 5:00 pm Eastern Time December 18, 2012

 To apply: Detailed information, including an online application and instructions, is available on our website at www.ghfp.net.    


NOTE: All internships require US citizenship or permanent resident status

 Applicants can apply for up to two internship positions. If you apply for a Winter On-Demand Internship, you will only be allowed to apply for one Summer 2013 Internship.

 We are proud to be an EEO/AA Employer.

 To learn more about GHFP-II, please visit www.ghfp.net. To learn more about USAID, the largest government donor organization in the development field, please visit www.usaid.gov.

 You can also find us on Facebook and LinkedIn!

HE²RO QuantCorps Fellowship Applications Still Available!

December 11th, 2012 in Fellowships

HE2RO QuantCorps Fellowships 2013

New GHFP-II Fellowship Available: HIV/AIDS Costing Analyst

December 10th, 2012 in Jobs

The Global Health Fellows Program (GHFP-II) is a five year cooperative agreement implemented and managed by the Public Health Institute in partnership with CDC Development Solutions and Management Systems International. GHFP-II is supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

GHFP-II's goal is to improve the effectiveness of USAID health programs by developing and increasing the capacity of health professionals with tailored development opportunities. This is accomplished through the recruitment, placement and support of diverse health professionals at the junior, mid and senior levels, and performance management and professional development activities aimed to enhance the technical and leadership skills of fellows.

BACKGROUND:

The US Government (USG) has made the fight against HIV/AIDS a top priority, not only for humanitarian reasons, but because the HIV/AIDS crisis threatens the prosperity, stability and development of nations around the world. USAID has been, and continues to be, at the forefront of the USG response in the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic, funding 10 billion dollars in activities since inception of its international HIV/AIDS program in 1986 with programs in nearly 100 countries worldwide. PEPFAR is the largest commitment ever by any nation for an international health initiative dedicated to a single disease. In July 2008, the United States Congress re-authorized the PEPFAR legislation in the amount of $48 billion, $35.4 billion of which is dedicated to HIV/AIDS services, $3.8 billion to tuberculosis, $4.8 billion to malaria, $1.7 billion to research and $2.3 billion to training health care workers. The Global Fund will receive at least $2 billion per year.

PEPFAR recognizes health systems strengthening (HSS) as a key strategy to secure the sustainability of its past and future achievements. PEPFAR's reauthorization provides an opportunity to strengthen health systems and health policy, as the USG's and its partners' efforts to combat HIV/AIDS transition from an initial emergency approach to a more long-term sustainable approach. The PEPFAR II legislation prioritizes strengthening HIV/AIDS health policies and health systems and assigns USAID with the complimentary task to develop and implement a plan to strengthen host country health systems and health policies to combat HIV/AIDS. USAID's HSS program provides support to ensure that developing country health systems are effective, efficient, and equitable. USAlD's assistance in the area of health systems is an integral part of creating effective basic services in maternal and child health, infectious disease and other priority services.

The overall objective of USAID's Bureau for Global Health (GH), Office of HIV/AIDS's (OHA) HSS program is to provide USAID leadership in building the sustainability of the HIV/AIDS response through investment in health systems. OHA views health systems strengthening as a continuous process of implementing changes in policies, management and systems within the health sector. Health systems strengthening activities may encompass all levels (national, district, community) and will address any of the six building blocks of the World Health Organization's health system framework -financing, service delivery, human resources for health, health information systems, pharmaceutical management, health policy and governance, including advocacy and civil society participation. OHA works collaboratively within USAID, with other US Government agencies, and with the international community to implement its HSS vision through coordinating activities, evaluating programs, developing guidance and supporting countries to ensure the application of up-to-date health systems development interventions in both the public and private sectors.

Efforts are rapidly increasing to identify and realize potential programming efficiencies under PEPFAR and to promote efficient resource allocation within partner countries' HIV/AIDS programs. Cost analysis was undertaken through the FY11 Headquarters Operational Plan in the areas of adult and pediatric treatment, PMTCT, and counseling and testing. Cost analysis is expanding to Orphans and Vulnerable Children and other prevention activities. From 2009, PEPFAR began to pilot results-linked routine expenditure analysis activities as a method to update cost estimates more rapidly. These analyses will begin to yield cross-program area cost data on a more regular basis, and over time will reduce the need for the type of time-consuming, labor-intensive special data calls to the field and reviews relied upon for this study.

INTRODUCTION:

The HIV/AIDS Costing Analyst will be assigned to the Bureau for Global Health, Office of HIV/AIDS, Strategic Planning, Evaluation and Reporting (SPER) Division, and will receive programmatic and technical guidance from the HSS Team Lead. S/he will focus on economic evaluation of HIV/AIDS programs and interventions, with primary emphasis on the generation of information to support efficient resource allocation decisions. Key technical emphases include costing, cost modeling, cost-effectiveness analysis and the use of cost information. The HIV/AIDS Costing Analyst will serve as one of the HSS Team's focal persons on costing activities within the context of PEPFAR and the Global Health Initiative, advancing OHA's vision for the use of cost information in collaboration with other technical staff.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:                             

The primary responsibilities of the HIV/AIDS Costing Analyst include:

  • Provide technical assistance to other OHA divisions, USAID missions and PEPFAR country teams in the assessment, design, implementation of HIV-related economic evaluations and cost analyses
  • Participate in the development, implementation, and analysis of economic evaluation studies at headquarters and in the field
  • Serves as a technical specialist in analyzing cost data, especially pertaining to resource tracking, costing, and cost-effectiveness studies
  • Conduct evaluations, comparative analyses, and other research tasks in support of costing and health finance related projects
  • Work closely with the Health Systems Strengthening team to conduct research studies by taking the lead in one or more major research activities (e.g., site training, protocol development and/or review, data analysis and monitoring plans, project management, study implementation, data analysis, data monitoring, data management, paper/report writing)
  • Provide technical assistance to the research team, interns, in-country colleagues and others as needed
  • Prepares study administration and analysis tools
  • Conducts data analysis
  • Participate in technical meetings, seminars and conferences as needed
  • Liaise with multiple technical working groups to provide technical support to cost analyses and other economic evaluation activities
  • Monitor implementing partners' economic evaluation work in the field, including fulfillment of a technical advisory role on specific projects as assigned
  • Support the PEPFAR Finance and Economics Working Group and ad hoc modeling working group as needed
  • Serve as a technical resource to the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) and other PEPFAR implementing agencies on OHA-led and jointly led Health Economics activities
  • Participate in OHA's HSS planning in PEPFAR's Headquarters Operational Plan (HOP) development
  • Maintain knowledge of state of the art costing and economic evaluation practices and serve as a technical resource for OHA, USAID, and PEPFAR

Other tasks or responsibilities may be assigned based on (a) organizational and programming need and/or (b) the Technical Advisor's own interests.

REQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Master's degree in public health, health economics, health finance, health management, health policy, or other relevant field
  • 0-7 years experience in cost analysis, economic evaluation, capacity building, resource mobilization, data analysis and research design, management and implementation with or without experience in an international or resource challenged setting
  • Demonstrated understanding of and ability to apply accepted tools, techniques and frameworks for economic evaluation and cost analysis of HIV/AIDS interventions
  • Specific technical expertise in conducting economic evaluation and analyzing costing data
  • Experience working on one or more additional areas preferred: HIV/AIDS, health systems strengthening, health policy, statistics
  • Strong quantitative and qualitative research skills are required
  • Excellent writing, editing, research, and presentation skills
  • Knowledge of public health research methodology as related to data collection instruments, data collection and analysis
  • Knowledge of statistical methods used in data analysis
  • Knowledge of and ability to use electronic data processing systems to gather, store, retrieve and analyze data
  • Experience using MS-Excel and preferably relevant software packages such as SPSS, SAS, R and Stata
  • Demonstrated experience working with a wide range of development partners, including multilateral and bilateral donors as well as private foundations and civil society
  • Demonstrated flexibility and openness in responding to changing work priorities and environment
  • Demonstrated ability to grasp knowledge of internal processes within the US Government and other health sector development partners, (e.g. thematic priorities, decision-making mechanisms, and preferred funding channels)
  • Strong interpersonal communication and writing skills and ability to work with diverse teams
  • Strong teamwork, multi-stakeholder collaboration and management skills
  • Resourceful in resolving problems and initiating solutions
  • Willingness to travel up to 30% of time
  • US Citizenship or Permanent Residency required

SALARY AND BENEFITS:  

Salary based on commensurate experience and earnings history. The Public Health Institute offers a comprehensive benefits package including professional development programs http://www.ghfp.net/docs/2012_Benefits_Booklet_GHFP.pdf

TO APPLY:

All applicants are required to apply for this position through GHFP-II's online recruitment system at https://www.ghfp.net/recruitment/, which allows you to store your CV, profile and bio data form in our database. A separate cover letter describing your qualifications and experience, interest and familiarity with issues relating to this position, and how this position relates to your career goals is required for each application. All applications must be submitted by 5:00 pm Eastern Time December 28, 2012.