Title: COMMUNITY-BASED FIELD RESEARCH GRANTS TO YOUNG FACULTY AND STUDENTS
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Section/SPIG: International Health
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The IH Section of APHA, in collaboration with the Colgate- Palmolive Company, is pleased to announce the availability of a small grants program to support young faculty and students in schools of public health to carry out community-based field research in behavioral hygiene. These competitive grants will be awarded for community-based research projects investigating the role of hygiene (especially hand washing with soap) in personal and community health and infection control, including investigations about the knowledge of proper hygiene habits, hygiene motivation and behavior change. The research should focus on mothers, families and children in resource-poor settings. Each award will be in the range of $10,000 - $15,000. A total of $30,000 is available to support this initiative
Three awards will be made, with preference being given to projects to be carried out in the one of the following countries: Puerto Rico, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Thailand, Malaysia, South Africa, Senegal, Kenya, Mozambique, or the United States. The U.S. investigation would need to focus on migrant or immigrant populations. Awards can be made to schools of public health based in the United States or in another country as long as the field research is carried out in one of the above countries.
Those projects which are funded will be presented and/or recognized at the Annual Meeting of APHA and at the IH Section formal meeting.
APHA, working in collaboration with the Working Group on Community-Based Primary Health Care of the IH Section, will take responsibility for administering the program. The competition was formally announced in September 2005, and the deadline for the first round of competition will be Nov. 15, 2005, with funded projects beginning on Feb. 1, 2006. Additional competitions will be held until the funds are dispersed. A committee of two persons from the Community-Based Primary Health Care Working Group and three technical experts involved in behavioral hygiene research will review the submissions.
For further information, contact Paul Freeman at <freeman.p.a@worldnet.att.net> or Henry Perry at <henry@future.org>.
--Henry Perry, E-mail: henry@future.org