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February 4, 2008

Center for Global Health announces Faculty Grant recipients

The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health has awarded pilot grants of $50,000 to ten faculty members to enable and support their proposed global health research projects. Instructors, Assistant Professors, and Associate Professors from the Schools of Public Health, Medicine, and Nursing were eligible to apply for the awards. 

All funded projects relate to some aspect of global health. The primary purpose of the Faculty Grants is to strengthen the winners' abilities to secure extramural funding.

Over 50 applications were received for the grants. This is the first time the Center for Global Health has offered the grant program, and it is slated to continue in the future.

The Center wishes to thank the 62 faculty members who served as reviewers for the grants. See list of reviewers >>

The Faculty Grant in Global Health recipients, their affiliations, and their project titles are listed below. Click on each name to read the project abstract.

Abdullah Baqui
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Associate Professor, International Health
The effect of maternal antenatal vitamin D supplementation on neonatal immune function: A randomized double-blind placebo controlled trial.

Heena Brahmbhatt
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Assistant Professor, Population, Family, and Reproductive Health
Morbidity, mortality, and disability in children study

Kathryn Chu
School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Surgery
The protective role of Helminth infection in inflammatory bowel disease in the Western Cape, South Africa

Jonathan Golub
School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Medicine and Epidemiology
A case-control study investigating the intersection between tobacco use, TB, and HIV

Adnan Hyder
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Associate Professor, International Health
Innovations in measuring injury and disability in low income countries: Use of a demographic surveillance system in Uganda

Sanjay Jain
School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Diagnosis of active tuberculosis in HIV infected and uninfected young children in India

Alain Labrique
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Assistant Professor, International Health
The Portable Field Dark Adaptometer: Validating a novel device for field-based screening and detection of vitamin A deficiency and night blindneses, a debilitating condition associated with high maternal and child mortality

Gregory Lucas
School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Medicine
Natural history of chronic kidney disease in HIV-infected and HIV-seronegative individuals in Rakai, Uganda

Clive Shiff
Bloomberg School of Publilc Health
Associate Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Chronic urinary schistosomiasis, the silent carcinogen: Developing biomarkers for its detection

Chung Tse
School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Medicine
Anti-diarrheal mechanisms of Zn2+: Role of Zn2 in intestinal CT secretion

Applications for the next round of faculty grants will be accepted in November of 2008.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health was launched in May 2006 to facilitate and focus the extensive expertise and resources of the Johns Hopkins Institutions, together with global collaborators, to effectively address and ameliorate the world's most pressing health issues.

The Center for Global Health helps to broker collaboration among nearly two dozen existing programs in the Schools of Public Health, Medicine, and Nursing; together, those programs already operate more than 400 projects around the world. The Center also seeks out and secures funding for new initiatives, recruits faculty to address emerging global health issues, and trains students to be the global health leaders of tomorrow.