{"id":11025,"date":"2016-02-09T14:20:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T19:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/?p=11025"},"modified":"2017-03-02T14:59:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T19:59:23","slug":"tanzania-field-program-applications-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/2016\/02\/09\/tanzania-field-program-applications-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania Field Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

NOTE – This course will be held in summer 2017 in Zambia, as SPH GH775 for 4 credits<\/a>. It is accepting applications until March 13, 2017.<\/p>\n

**Applications will be accepted until February 28, 2016**
\nAdmission\u00a0will occur\u00a0on a rolling basis, so please apply early<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

GH707 \u2013 FIELD PRACTICUM IN PUBLIC HEALTH IN EAST AFRICA<\/p>\n

This 6-week course in Tanzania provides students with an international, community-based field practicum experience as they evaluate a public health project of government or an NGO. \u00a0The course is divided into four parts.\u00a0 The first part is split between classroom and field sessions and is designed to orient students to East African culture, the public health environment, conducting qualitative research, and working in teams. During the second part of the course students will be in the classroom focusing on becoming topic experts, designing and pre-testing their study instruments.\u00a0 The third part consists of data collection in the field. \u00a0In the\u00a0final part of the course, students return to the classroom for practical exercises in data analysis using R and spend the remaining time preparing their team final reports, a combined group report and stakeholder and community presentations.<\/p>\n

In addition to gaining valuable experience conducting field research, this course provide students the unique opportunity to live in a rural East African community where they will work alongside and interact with community residents and immerse themselves in the public health efforts in the community.\u00a0 Previous version of this course, have collected baseline information on water and sanitation practices, community health indicators and worked with local organizations to evaluate the success of health interventions.\u00a0 The course fulfills the MPH\u00a0practicum requirement.<\/p>\n

Course Dates:<\/strong> May 18-June 29, 2016<\/h3>\n

Date Details:<\/strong>
\nDepart (Boston): Monday, May 16
\nArrive in Dar-es-Salaam: Tuesday, May 17
\nCourse Start Date: Wednesday, May 18
\nDepart from Dar-es-Salaam: Wednesday, June 29<\/p>\n

Required Orientation Dates<\/strong>\u00a0(please\u00a0prioritize attending):
\nApril 8, 4 \u2013 6pm: \u00a0Living &Working \u2013 What to expect, What to pack, and What to Leave Home
\nApril 15, 4 \u2013 6pm: Karibu Pommerni \u2013 Village of Pommern & introduction to Kiswahili
\nApril 22, 8am-10am: field activities orientation; pre-assignment briefing
\nApril 29, 4 \u2013 6pm: Tanzanian history & culture: colonialism, socialism; rural village etiquette for westerners<\/p>\n

Information Session<\/strong>\u00a0was\u00a0held Friday, Feb 5. \u00a0See the PowerPoint presentation for details:\u00a0GH707 Field Practicum in Public Health in Tz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More info and application available here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NOTE – This course will be held in summer 2017 in Zambia, as SPH GH775 for 4 credits. It is accepting applications until March 13, 2017. **Applications will be accepted until February 28, 2016** Admission\u00a0will occur\u00a0on a rolling basis, so please apply early.\u00a0 GH707 \u2013 FIELD PRACTICUM IN PUBLIC HEALTH IN EAST AFRICA This 6-week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7792,7784],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11025"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12803,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11025\/revisions\/12803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}