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 are featured below. Click on each winner's name to read their project abstract.

	Abdullah Baqui Bloomberg School of Public Health Topic: 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 Topic: Morbidity, mortality, and disability in children study
	Kathryn Chu School of Medicine Topic: The protective role of Helminth infection in inflammatory bowel disease in the Western Cape, South Africa
	Jonathan Golub School of Medicine Topic: A case-control study investigating the intersection between tobacco use, TB, and HIV
	Adnan Hyder Bloomberg School of Public Health Topic: Innovations in measuring injury and disability in low income countries: Use of a demographic surveillance system in Uganda
	Sanjay Jain School of Medicine Topic: Diagnosis of active tuberculosis in HIV infected and ininfected young children in India
	Alain Labrique Bloomberg School of Public Health Topic: The portable field dark adaptometer validating a novel device for field-based screening and detection of vitamin A deficiency and night blindness, a debilitating condition associated with high maternal and child mortality
	Gregory Lucas School of Medicine Topic: Natural history of chronic kidney disease in HIV-infected and HIV-seronegative individuals in Rakai, Uganda
	Clive Shiff Bloomberg School of Public Health Topic: Chronic urinary schistosomiasis, the silent carcinogen: Developing biomarkers for its detection
	Chung Tse School of Medicine Topic: Anti-diarrheal mechanisms of Zn2+: Role of Zn2 in intestinal CT secretion