GMS-CDC

Since 1988, the Fogarty International Center, part of the National Institutes of Health, has published the Directory of International Grants and Fellowships in the Health Sciences. A comprehensive compilation of international funding opportunities in biomedical and behavioral research, separated by category, can be at the following website: http://www.fic.nih.gov/funding/directory_fellowships.htm

From Ron, Faina, Mita, Eugene and the Supercourse network,

Supercourse http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/ and Library of Alexandria re trying to provide all medical and public health students a CD with ver 2000 global health and prevention lectures of the Supercourse ontaining all Supercourse content. There is little training on Global Health and Prevention for Medical and Public Health students, we want to change this. We would like to reach out to all new medical and public health students and other students with the
message about the importance of global health and prevention and we really need your help. We would appreciate If you could have a CD copied to medical and public health students and faculty and others who you think would be interested.  It is time for you and the aupercourse to improve the training of Global Health and Prevention for all medical and public health students in your country and worldwide.

An advance training course on research data analysis.

We have a pleasure to invite you to participate in a training workshop on “Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling using AMOS” organized by the Hanoi School of Public Health (HSPH) Monday, 2nd – Friday, 6th March, 2009 , Hanoi School of Public Health.

The Regional Coordination Unit (RCU) of the Asian Development Bank Greater Mekong Communicable Diseases Control Project is seeking a qualified professional for a short term work (within maximum 3 months) to perform the following work:

Task: Listing of key partners involved in regional activities in communicable diseases in the GMS subregion and analysis of their respective roles and synergies.

Position Summary

 We are seeking expressions of interest for one senior and two early career anthropologists on an 18-month research project within the field of cultural and social anthropology. Ideally, the applicants’ research would be theoretically or thematically relevant to the field of medical anthropology, development or the anthropology of science. The aim of the Research Positions are to expand and develop ongoing research related to lay understandings of dengue fever, its
vectors and its control in Australia and Vietnam. The successful applicants will work collaboratively with an international, multi-disciplinary research team and will receive support from senior researchers and community development specialists in Vietnam (Ministry of Health and the Australian Foundation for Peoples of Asia and the Pacific Ltd) and Australia (University of Queensland, James Cook University, and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research).

In order to expand our capacity for reporting on outbreaks in the MBDS region, ProMED-mail is initiating a search for an infectious diseases moderator with a focus on human diseases to add to the PRO/MBDS moderator staff. PRO/MBDS is a collaboration between ProMED-mail and the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance (MBDS) initiative covering reports of outbreaks and other unusual health events of interest to the MBDS countries. The MBDS initiative countries include The Kingdom of Cambodia, Yunnan province and the Guangxi Autonomous Republic of the People's Republic of China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, The Union of Myanmar, The Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, and the Kingdom of Thailand. The infectious diseases moderator will work closely with other PRO/MBDS moderators and the ProMED-mail Deputy Editor.