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 Scientists, and Assistant 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. Thirty-one applicants competed for the grants. This is the third year the Center for Global Health has offered the grant program. The Faculty Grant in Global Health recipients are featured below. Click on each winner's name to read their project abstract.
2007 Winners
2008 Winners
 | Aruna Chandran
Pakistan
Development of an Innovate Tool for Emergency Care Surveillance in Karachi, Pakistan
|  | Grace Chen
Nepal
Obstetric Fistula in Rural Nepal: Prevalence and Risk Factors
|  | Khalil Ghanem
Morocco
Risk Factors for Tuberculosis Treatment default in Moroccan Communities with Extremely High Tuberculosis Incidence Rates: A Case-Control Study and Pilot Intervention
|  | Petros Karakousis
Panama
Multiplex Allele-Specific PCR for the Detection of MDR-TB in Panama
|  | Xiangrong Kong
Uganda
Male circumcision, risk compensation and the role of intensive health education and VCT on HIV prevention in Rakai, Uganda
| | | Benjamin Lee
Ethiopia
Prevalence of Pain and Distressing Symptoms in Pediatric Inpatients with Life-threatening Illness in Ethiopia
|  | Elena Levitskaia
Inhibition of plasmepsin activity in the liver stage of malaria infection
|  | Sai Ma
China
The Burden of Hospitalized Injuries in China
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| Myaing Nyunt
Mali
Antimalarial treatment efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine in HIV-infected pregnant women
|  | Erika Avila-Tang
Brazil
Nicotine exposure in children and families of tobacco farming households in Brazil |
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