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Mentored Research Experiences

IHI faculty annually mentor several students for global health research experiences. There are more students than there are opportunities, so we are very selective. We seek students with strong scholarly skills, who have taken relevant interdisciplinary global health, epidemiology, biostatistics courses, including independent studies with us, or have had a series of increasingly detailed meetings with us. We seek students who are culturally sensitive and who demonstrate that they are likely to succeed in different and challenging environments. We are happy to provide referrals for global health experiences to other Brown faculty. See the list described in the Global Health at Brown page of the IHI website.

For a list of projects and mentored research experiences conducted by recent Brown graduates that led to undergraduate and graduate theses, click here.

We value student involvement in preparing peer-reviewed manuscripts, and for a list of papers we have published with student co-authors, click here.

Ideally, students and trainees will contact us early in their programs, so that we can work together through the continuum of field experiences, theses and publications.

Obtaining financial support for foreign experiences is an important part of this process, so it is wise to explore funding possibilties within Brown, including the UTRA program, the Foreign Studies Fellowship, Summer Assistantships for medical students and International Health Travel Scholarships, the  Swearer Center and Watson Institute for International Studies .