Framework Program in Global Health:
Spring 2009 Grant Recipients

Each semester, the Center for Global Health awards 9 to 12 students a Framework Program in Global Health fellowship. These awards are given to undergraduate and graduate Hopkins students to help support an international research experience. Each student works with a faculty mentor to complete their projects. Below is a list of our most recent award winners for the Fall 2008 semester, with abstracts of their work. Personal accounts of their time overseas will be added as they return from their research experiences.

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Spring 2009 winners:

	Virginia Bowen  Country: Ghana Topic: Barriers to Contraceptive Use in the Ga East District of Ghana
	Shannon McMahon  Country: Tanzania Topic: Analysis of a pilot intervention to implement a career advancement system for Community Health Workers in rural Tanzania
	Tisha Mitsunaga  Country: Rwanda Topic: Community Case Management (CCM) in Rwanda
	Veronique Nussenblatt  Country: South Africa Topic: Pilot Study of the Impact of Rifampin on Nevirapine Levels and MTCT among Pregnant Women with TB and HIV
	Tonia Poteat  Country: Senegal Topic: The Impact of human rights violations on the health care seeking behavior of MSM in Senegal: A qualitative assessment
	Laura Seckel  Country: Nepal Topic: Factors that constrain or prevent optimal infant and young child feeding practices in rural Nepal
	Shegufta Sikder  Country: Bangladesh Topic: Female Mortality in Rural Northwest Bangladesh - Dysfunction, delays and solutions: A critical evaluation of underlying pathways leading to death
	Namrita Singh  Country: Georgia Topic: Local terminology and conceptions of mental health among older internally displaced adults in Tbilisi, Georgia
	James Williams  Country: South Africa Topic: Displacement, Cholera, and Stigma: A History of Refugee Health and Urban Violence in Johannesburg, South Africa, 2008 -2009