 | The Office of Global Health hosts an annual three-day immersion workshop in Lima, Peru for faculty and doctoral students interested in globalizing their activities. The workshop provides participants with information on conducting global health research and is specifically tailored to the research interests of those participants selected to attend each year. Currently, there are multiple NIH-funded training grants and several large NIH and Wellcome Trust-funded research projects in Peru; as a result, the workshop includes a combination of presentations and site visits to various research project locations during the three-day event. To ensure the hands-on nature of the workshop, attendance is limited to 30 people, to include up to ten Tulane faculty and/or doctoral students, who are provided with full travel and lodging funds in order to attend the workshop. Participants from collaborating institutions in Peru, as well as colleagues from other FGH international collaborating institutions, are also invited to attend. The first workshop was held May 20-22, 2009. Topics included:
- Setting up successful collaborative research projects overseas
- Challenges in finding funding for overseas research
- Field visits to research sites, such as the Pampas Research Station, to learn about the complexities of managing and running this station in the middle of a shantytown.
- Interdisciplinary collaborations in global health, including the strengths and challenges
- Ethics issues in global health research
2009 Annual Immersion Workshop Faculty Attendees
School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Gretchen Clum, PhD, Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences
Ivo Foppa, MD, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Frederique Jacquerioz, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor, Tropical Medicine
School of Liberal Arts
Mary Clark, PhD, Associate Professor, Political Science
John Verano, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, Anthropology
School of Medicine
Jaya Aysola, MD, DTM&H, FAAP, Section Chief, Community Pediatrics and Global Health, Pediatrics
Domnica Fotino, MD, MPH, Physician, Internal Medicine
Richard Witzig, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Medicine and Infectious Disease
School of Social Work
Stephanie Baus, MSW, Clinical Assistant Professor, Social Work
So’Nia Gilkey, PhD, Assistant Professor, Social Work
2010 Immersion Workshop
The next immersion workshop is scheduled for the week of June 21, 2010. A call for applications will be distributed in January. Interested participants will submit their applications and all relevant materials to Andrea Meyer, Program Manager, for distribution to the deans of their respective schools. Each dean will assemble a selection committee, who will then select the top two candidates for each participating school. Evaluation criteria will be based on each applicant's commitment to the field of global health and his/her potential benefit from the workshop.
Additional Information
For additional information regarding these opportunities, please contact Andrea Meyer, Program Manager.
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