{"id":12780,"date":"2017-03-01T11:35:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/?p=12780"},"modified":"2017-03-01T11:35:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:35:49","slug":"applications-extended-until-march-13th-zambia-field-program-summer-practicum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/2017\/03\/01\/applications-extended-until-march-13th-zambia-field-program-summer-practicum\/","title":{"rendered":"Applications Extended until March 13th! &#8211; Zambia Field Program Summer Practicum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Zambia Field Program Summer Practicum<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\"> \u2013 <\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Applications extended until March 13th!<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">After multiple requests the Department of Global Health has decided to extend the application deadline until\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b>Monday\u00a0March 13th at 5:00pm<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> for the <strong>GH775 African Field Practicum in Public Health<\/strong> this Summer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The program takes place from May 26-July 2 in Zambia. The students will have a unique opportunity to live in the active market town of Choma, the capital of Zambia\u2019s Southern Province. This 5-week, 4-credit course meets the MPH practicum requirement and can also be taken as a course in 3 MPH certificates (Monitoring &amp; Evaluation, Design &amp; Conduct of Public Health Research, &amp; Global Health) or as an elective for other certificates. The course is divided into four parts: the first is split\u00a0between classroom and field sessions, the second is classroom lectures and designing the study instruments, the third consists of data collection in the field, and the final part of the course is analysis of the data and presentations to the community and the stakeholders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">A new informational video about the program and the application to apply can be found here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/gh-practicum\/zambia-field-practicum\/\"><span class=\"s4\">https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/gh-practicum\/zambia-field-practicum\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">NOTE: \u00a0A Santander Travel award is provided to each admitted student, which helps defray travel expenses. There is no separate application needed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia Field Program Summer Practicum \u2013 Applications extended until March 13th! After multiple requests the Department of Global Health has decided to extend the application deadline until\u00a0Monday\u00a0March 13th at 5:00pm for the GH775 African Field Practicum in Public Health this Summer.\u00a0 The program takes place from May 26-July 2 in Zambia. The students will have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11333,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7792],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780"}],"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\/11333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12781,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780\/revisions\/12781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}