Posts Tagged ‘global health’

The Office of the Provost and Global Health Center will be presenting the 2nd Annual Kathryn Robertson Memorial Lecture in Global Health titled, “TIA” – This is AIDS: Turning a Medical Crisis into an Opportunity for Progress. The guest speaker for this year’s lectureship is Robert T. Schooley, M.D. The lecture will start at 12 p.m. on Friday, October 19, 2012 in the OHSU Auditorium with a reception to follow at 1 p.m. Dr. Schooley … Read More

The Fulbright Scholar Program is looking for faculty to teach or conduct research for the 2013-2014 academic year in one of two area-specifc programs: 1) Fulbright Scholar Grants to Francophone Africa In Sub-Saharan Africa, 18 awards are available in eight countries, including a multi-country research award. Countries include Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Mali, and Senegal. In North Africa, nine awards are available in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia … Read More

Back in January we announced that Louis Picker, M.D., and his research team had received $8 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to further develop a promising HIV vaccine candidate. OHSU researchers have secured an additional $1 million from the Gates Foundation through their Grand Challenges Explorations funding program. Research will be led by assistant scientist Jonah Sacha, Ph.D., at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute on OHSU’s West Campus. Sacha and his colleagues will attempt … Read More

The Global Health Center asked us to share the following message: This is a reminder that the Global Health Center is conducting a survey of all OHSU researchers, educators and clinicians to build an inventory of colleagues whose activities involve work outside the United States. It would be most helpful if you could complete the survey emailed on Feb. 27, if you are involved in global health. Thank you very much for your time. Peter Spencer, … Read More

The Fondation Leducq, a French non-profit organization dedicated to promoting international research in cardiovascular and neurovascular disease, has launched a career development initiative for individual junior or senior European or North American investigators who wish to perform cardiovascular or neurovascular research on the opposite side of the Atlantic. New this year: the funding, $100,000 to $150,000 per year for six to 24 months, can be used in any academic host laboratory. To be eligible, applicants … Read More

Two Fulbright programs, the Core Scholar Program, which sends 800 faculty overseas to research and teach each year, and the Distinguished Chair Program, for senior faculty with an excellent publication and teaching record, have deadlines coming up on Monday, August 1, 2011. For last minute tips on polishing your application, visit the Fulbright Scholar Webinar page. Register for “Reviewing Your Fulbright Application Package” on Wednesday, July 27, or scroll to the bottom of the page … Read More

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation seeks applications for its seventh round of Grand Challenges Exploration Grants. The purpose of these grants is to help scientists pursue unconventional solutions to global health issues. For this round, the Foundation will consider proposals in the following areas: The Poliovirus Endgame: Creating innovative ways to accelerate, sustain, and monitor eradication; Exploring nutrition for healthy growth of infants and children; Applying synthetic biology to global health challenges; Creating the … Read More

Katherine Matheson, Associate Manager at the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), will be hosting a workshop on the Fulbright Program for Faculty and Professionals at OHSU on Tuesday, April 5. The workshop starts at 9:45 a.m. in Old Library Room 217. At the workshop, you will: Learn about lecturing and research opportunities in more than 125 countries; Get advice on selecting countries for application & making contacts abroad; Explore how your campus can … Read More