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May 12, 2008

Spring 2008 Framework Program in Global Health award winners announced

The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health recently announced their Framework Program in Global Health award winners for the spring of 2008. Seventeen current Hopkins students were selected to receive the awards, which range in value from $3,000 to $5,000. The objective of the Framework Program in Global Health is to enhance the recruitment of students into global health research and practice careers by providing them the means to work with faculty mentors and to travel overseas to gain valuable experience. All students submitted a research project proposal based in an international location to be considered for the award.

Consistent with the program's goal to support students in a wide range of disciplines necessary to respond to today's global health challenges, this group of seventeen awardees features students pursuing degrees in a variety of fields.

The winners, their field of study, and their research locations are as follows:

School of Advanced International Studies
Theodore Alcorn, Master's of International Affairs candidate, Ghana*

School of Arts & Sciences
Dylan Cote, Bachelor's degree candidate in Public Health Studies, Malawi
Julia Driessen, PhD candidate in Economics, Bangladesh
Kristin Lehner, PhD candidate in the History of Africa, Mail

School of Engineering
Stefanie Falconi, MS candidate in Environmental Engineering, South Africa

School of Medicine
Ferhina Ali, MD candidate, India
Adam Iddriss, MD candidate, The Gambia
Lisa Patel, MD candidate, Peru
Adrienne Shapiro, MD candidate, South Africa*

School of Public Health
Theodore Alcorn, MHS candidate in International Health, Ghana*
James Cope, PhD candidate in Health Policy and Management, Jordan
Britt Ehrhardt, MHS candidate in Social and Behavioral Interventions, South Africa
Christine Fu, PhD candidate in Social Networks, Normative Influence, and Social Change, China
Jewel Gausman, MSH candidate in Social and Behavioral Interventions, Bangladesh
Lauren Kleutsch, MSH candidate in Social and Behavioral Interventions, South Africa
Melinda Munos, MHS candidate in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control, Bangladesh
Adrienne Shapiro, PhD candidate in Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, South Africa*
Savitha Subramanian, DrPh candidate in International Health, India
Sarah Wampold, MHS candidate in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control, South Africa

* denotes student in multiple programs

>> Read the award winners' profiles and project abstracts  
>> Learn how to apply for a Framework Program in Global Health award  

The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health is joined in its support for the Frameworks Program by the National Institutes of Health's John E. Fogarty International Center. For students interested in applying for a Framework Program in Global Health award, the next deadline is November 15, 2008. Learn more about the Framework Program in Global Health.