SPONSORED BY COLGATE-PALMOLIVE and COMMUNITY-BASED FIELD RESEARCH GRANTS TO YOUNG FACULTY AND STUDENTS AT SCHOOLS OF PUBLIC HEALTH FOR BEHAVIORAL HYGIENE PROMOTION AND GLOBAL HEALTH
The IH Section of APHA, in collaboration with Colgate Palmolive, is pleased to announce the Small Grants Program to support young faculty and students in schools of public health or tertiary institutions with an established public health program 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 each year.
Awards will be made on the basis of merit as determined on independent review by five senior reviewers. Three awards will be made, with preference being given to projects to be carried out in the one 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 will be made through schools of public health or tertiary institutions with an established public health program. The institution concerned can be based in the United States or in another country as long as the field research is carried out in one of the above countries or another developing country, if the proposal is of superior merit. Those projects which are funded will be presented and/or recognized at the APHA Annual Meeting at the World Federation of Public Health meeting there.
APHA, working in collaboration with the Working Group on Community- Based Primary Health Care of the International Health Section, will take responsibility for administering the program. This round of the competition is formally announced with this notice. The deadline for the submission of proposals is Nov. 17, 2007, with funded projects beginning on Feb. 1, 2008.
Only proposals submitted according to our guidelines will be accepted. These guidelines can be obtained from Morgan Taylor at E-mail: morgan.taylor@apha.org
For further information, contact: Paul Freeman at E-mail: freeman.p.a@att.net
--Morgan Taylor, Global Health Manager APHA, E-mail: morgan.taylor@apha.org