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Foreign Studies Fellowship Program

Recent Fellowships

There are several countries and institutions, which collaborate with the Brown faculty on research and training that have hosted students in the last few years. There are also students who arrange fellowships at places where no Brown faculty have cooperative relations. Listed below are the Foreign Studies Fellowship awards from 2005 to 1999. The following lists titles of the awardees proposals and some have links to photos from their reseach experience. If you are interested in reviewing copies of the proposals awarded which are housed at the International Health Institute, please call 863-1186 for an appointment.

2006 to date:

  • Caitlin Cohen: Project Siguida Keneyali (Health in our Homes): Combining lay knowledge, leadership, and public health strategy to improve health in Sikoro, Mali.
  • AuTumn Davidson: "Comparing Efficacy of VIA to Cytology in Detection of Precancerous Lesions of the Cervix in HIV Positive Cambodian Women"
  • Nichole McCalvin: As the newly appointed HIV/AIDS testing coordinator for the Uganda Village Project, I will lead a project in the Iganga district of Uganda with the assistance of a team of medical students and public health professionals. The objective of this project will be to locate and catalogue HIV/AIDS testing and treatment centers with the goal of educating the Igangans on the infrastructure of the HIV/AIDS healthcare systems within the community.

2005:

  • Jan Cooper: "A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Opinions of Members of IRB's, CAB's and Investigators: A Comparison between South India and the US".
  • E. John Ly: "Pilot Study to Determine the Common Pathogens in Pediatric Inpatients Presenting with Pneumonia at Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Riep, Cambodia."
  • Andrew Lai: Assessment of the Outcomes of a Universal Diagnostic and Counseling Testing for HIV in a TB Clinic in Eldoret, Kenya".
  • Tanya Nicole Rinderknecht: "Creating Successful Community Health Programs in Rural Honduras: Six Months with the Multi-National NGO, Shoulder to Shoulder".
  • Carla Moreira: "A Study to Assess the Acceptability of Antenatal HIV Counseling and Testing (VCT) in Cape Verde among Women Receiving Prenatal and Postnatal Services".
  • Karine R. Tolentino: "A Study to Assess the Acceptability of Antenatal HIV Counseling and Testing (VCT) in Cape Verde among Women Receiving Prenatal and Postnatal Services".

2004

  • Myron Allukian, Jennifer Montoya and Alexander Westphal:" Voices of Hope: Oral Histories of HIV Patients in Eldoret, Kenya".
  • Elizabeth Paupst: "A Pilot Investigation of the Traditional/Western Medicine Interface inContraceptive Health in Young Maori Women".
  • Emily Elstad: "Translating the Chronic Care Model for Diabetes Management to American Samoan Culture".
  • Mark Brady: "Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) for HIV infected children in Siem Reap, Cambodia".
  • Andrew Lai: "Clinical Profile of Tuberculosis in HIV-Positive Patients in South India".
  • Leena Sastry: Assessing the Need for Streamlined Healthcare among Disabled Populations in Bangalore, India: A study on the frequency of comobidities among people with disabilities.

2003

  • Sarah Maier: "Genome San for Oesity Suseptibility Loci in Adult Samoans".
  • Rebecca Traub: "Adolescent Tobacco Use Study in South Africa".
  • Rupali Kotwal: "Adherence to HIV Treatment and Attitudes about Directly-Observed Therapy among Postpartum Puerto Rican Women: A Qualitative Study at the Center for Materna.-Infant Studies, San Juan, Puerto Rico."
  • Sreekanth Chaguturu: "Gerneric Antiretroviral Therapy: Impact and Outcomes in South India".
  • Patricia Myung: "Directly Observed Antiretroviral Treatment in Cambodian Orphan Children". (Awarded 2002)
  • Sophy Wong: "An Evaluation of HIV Post Test counseling in Eldoret, Kenya".
  • Neal Desai: "To Study the Expression of Multidrug Resistance-Associated Proteins in Orbital Rhabdomyosarcoma-specificall Lung Resistance Protein Expression".

2002

  • Brian Kwong: "A Chinese Investigation of the Role of p38 MAPK Protein in Human Breast Carcinogenesis".
  • Okpala Ogochukwu:" Senior Girls: Sexual Relationships, Birth Control and HIV/AIDS: A Qualitive Study".

2001

  • Kamel Addo:"Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Dots In The Management Of TB Patients In Ghana".
  • Greg Roth: "Assessing the Role of HIV Testing at the Thailand-Myanmar Border".
  • Sora Chung: "Young Migrants, HIV/AIDS and Access to Health Services in Kano, Nigeria".

2000

  • Joshua Schiffman: "Hypertension and Obesity in Children of the Cook Islands".
  • Meena Mehrotra:" HIV/AIDS Long-term Education and Empowerment Projects for Youth in India".
  • Justyna Piasecka: "Preparation for a Genome-wide Search for Obesity Susceptibility Loci in Adult Samoans".
  • Mark Slidell:"Sero-prevalence Study to Determine the Prevalence of STD's and HIV in Central Java".

1999

  • Phuc Le: "An Epidemiologic and Ethnographic Description of Institutionalized Orphans in an Orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City".
  • Vandana Reddy: "History, Clinical Presentation,and Etiology of Chronic Diarrhea in HIV-Positive Patients at the YRG Clinic in Chennai, India".
  • Neel Gandhi:" Study of HIV Sero-prevalence in rural Gujarat, India".