Position: The Hubert Department of Global Health (HGH), Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH), Emory University is seeking four pre or post-doctoral trainees to join an exciting program in interdisciplinary global health research in Ethiopia. These positions are full-time, residential fellowships for a period of up to one year (with approximately 6 months of fieldwork in Ethiopia and 3 months at Emory).
Up to four positions will be offered, two of them for trainees from the health sciences (Medicine, Public Health or Nursing), one from Anthropology and one from Mathematics/Computational Science/Geographical Information Systems or Bioinformatics/Biostatistics.

Applicants must have an M.D., Ph.D. or be Ph.D candidates in good standing in the Health sciences, mathematics and computational science, informatics, anthropology, sociology or economics at the starting date. Excellent skills in quantitative and/or qualitative research and writing are required, as well as a demonstrated interest in and understanding of issues in global health research in Ethiopia.

The successful candidates will participate actively in multidisciplinary teams, working across disciplinary boundaries with which the person may be unfamiliar for addressing substantive concerns in Global Health and the matching of an applicant’s research interests with those of the ongoing projects in Ethiopia and faculty members who will serve as mentors. These projects are:

Water, Women and Development in Ethiopia – C. Hadley (Anthropology) ¡  This collaboration between Emory University, CARE Ethiopia, and Jimma University (Ethiopia), and funded by Emory’s Institute for Developing Nations, unites anthropological method and theory with environmental health and development. This work aims to 1) develop tools for the assessment of local Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) insecurity; 2) understand the environmental, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors that determine women’s experiences of insecure access to water; and 3) develop an intervention that accounts for interactions among WASH insecurity, food insecurity, gender inequality, and poverty.

Maternal and Neonatal Health in Ethiopia Partnership (MaHNEP) L. Sibley (Nursing) ¡  This Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) project aims to improve maternal and newborn infant outcomes in two rural regions in Ethiopia.
The overall goal is to discover scalable methods to encourage women in rural areas to recognize and respond appropriately to the signs of life-threatening birth events and also to make better use of government-funded health workers who can assist with births and who also have access to anti-hemorrhagic medications.  The project is being conducted in collaboration with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, Regional Health Departments and Addis Ababa University.

Improving Maternal Health:  Implementation of the Use of Magnesium Sulfate for the Treatment of Pre-eclampsia and Eclampsia at Three Addis Ababa University Teaching Hospitals H. Blumberg (SOM) ¡ This BMGF project is working on implementing the use of Magnesium sulfate (which previously has not been available in Ethiopia) as the drug of choice for the treatment of patients with pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in order to improve maternal and fetal outcomes at three AAU teaching hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  The experience at the AAU hospitals is being leveraged to roll out Magnesium sulfate at 115 hospitals across Ethiopia in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, UNICEF, and the Ethiopian Society of OB/GYN (ESOG).

Improving maternal, neonatal and child health outcomes through better designed nutrition policies and programs – R. Martorell (RSPH)¡ This BMFG funded project seeks to improve maternal, neonatal and child health outcomes through better designed policies and programs that enhance nutrition throughout the life cycle, with a particular focus on maternal nutrition. In Ethiopia the field work is taking place in Tigre and SNNPR (Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region). The project will identify priority research needed to bolster the evidence for promising new interventions as well as operations research needed to overcome demand and supply barriers to implementation of current and new strategies and interventions.  The field work will identify particular programs, platforms and/or interventions that can go to scale to enhance maternal nutrition.

Application Process: Please send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, 1–2 page statement of research interests, two examples of written work in pdf format, and three letters of recommendation to Ms. Maria Sullivan, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, or by email to masulli@emory.edu. Electronic submission is encouraged. Please specify Global Health Interdisciplinary Fellowships” in the subject heading.

The review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the positions are filled. The start date will be no later than Jan 1, 2011. Only complete applications will be considered for interview.

Emory is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

(October 2010)
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James Holland Jones
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment

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