Month: April 2011

Internship opportunity with the International Respiratory and Severe Illness Center (INTERSECT) at the University of Washington

by ihsection, posted in Information and Social Media, Internships and Fellowships

INTERSECT is a newly formed center within the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine whose mission is to improve global health by addressing the burden of respiratory disease and severe illness in low resource regions around the world. We are looking for a creative and highly motivated undergraduate (or graduate) student with a background in web design and interest in global health.

Job description:
1. Website maintenance and creative input on website layout, social networking, and multimedia. See http://www.intersectuw.org for views of the current website.
2. Rapporteur for monthly meetings
3. Assistance with grant/fundraising proposals
4. Organization of invited lecture series

Hours per month: 5-10 hours. For website activities, intern can either work from home or office space can be provided by INTERSECT at Harborview Medical Center (HMC). For monthly meetings, intern can either join in person at HMC or by conference call, depending on his/her availability.

Benefits: Opportunities for career advising and mentoring from UW physicians working directly in resource-limited settings on fields including critical care, pulmonary and infectious disease, trauma and anesthesia.

Contact: Please email Shevin Jacob (sjacob2@uw.edu) for further inquiries.

Calling for Nominations: The Gordon-Wyon Award for Community-Oriented Public Health, Epidemiology, and Practice

by ihsection, posted in APHA IH Section

Attention IH Section members!  The Community Based Primary Health Care Working Group (CBPHC-WG) is soliciting nominations for this year’s Gordon-Wyon award.   The award honors outstanding achievement in community-oriented public health epidemiology and practice. This award was established in 2006 by the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association.  John Gordon and John Wyon were pioneers in this field, so encouraging and recognizing others in this field is one important way of honoring their memory.  More information about the award can be found here.

The evaluation criteria for this award include: (1) The candidate must have had a central role in an outstanding achievement in community-oriented public health and practice; (2) The candidate must have demonstrated creativity in expanding the concepts pertinent to the practice of community-oriented public health with an international focus; and (3) The candidate must have membership in APHA or one of its affiliates (either a State affiliate or a national public health association that is a member of the World Federation of Public Health Associations) at the time that the award is presented. The candidate must be nominated by someone other than the candidate (with the candidate’s approval).
 
Previous winners of the award are  Rajanikant Arole, Carl Taylor, Henry Perry, Bette Gebrian, Jaime Gofin, and Warren and Gretchen Berggren.
 
Please send your nomination and their CV to Paul Freeman by no later than May 14th,  2011 at freeman.p.a@att.net  The winner of this award will be decided by the independent votes of a panel of senior members of the CBPHC-WG on the basis of the above criteria.