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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Research on Men's Health and Transition to Adulthood |
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The Center for Adolescent Health and the Department of Population,
Family, and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health are pleased to announce our search for a postdoctoral fellow for a
one-year appointment beginning in the fall of 2008. A second year may be
possible, contingent on funding. This
fellowship specifically involves analyzing fourth wave data from a nationally
representative longitudinal survey of males, with data on men's sexual
behaviors, sexually transmitted disease histories, fathering practices,
romantic relationships, and illicit drug use.
For further information, and details about the application procedure,
please email
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Deadline for
applications: June 1, 2008.
Research Position/Postdoc in Mental Health/Substance Abuse
Disparities--UCLA School of Public Health
RESEARCH POSITION -CALIFORNIA QUALITY OF LIFE II STUDY
Job Description: This follow back study will examine patterns of utilization
of mental health and substance abuse service utilization in a population based
sample of Californians varying in sexual orientation, with a large heterosexual
matched population which will have a substantial African American oversample. The
person serving in the position is expected to generate publications using the
California Quality of Life Survey combined with other contextual datasets. The
position has the possibility for renewal for a second year.
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Minority Health Conference |
June 3, 2008, 2:00-4:00 pm EDT
Topic: "Men's Health Disparities: Implications for Research and Intervention"
This interactive session will be broadcast in front of a live audience in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt auditorium at the UNC School of Social Work and can be viewed over c-band satellite and the Internet Live, interactive broadcast via Internet (webcast) and c-band satellite from the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Auditorium at the University of North Carolina School of Social Work.
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CBPR post-doc with Montana State University and Crow Nation |
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Postdoctoral Fellowships - Applications Accepted Now!
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship working with a well-established Community-based participatory research project, Messengers for Health
on the Apsáalooke Reservation. Members of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Nation and faculty and students at
Montana State University (MSU) have been working together since 1996. This fellowship provides an
opportunity to spend up to two years engaged in action-based research including a policy-level
intervention with the Indian Health Service Crow Service Unit and a community-level intervention in women's
cancer prevention. Complete application materials are due June
13, 2008.
See Fellowship Announcement for further information and details about
the position t Montana State University.
A research associate position at Georgia State University to help build its Community-based participatory research program. The position is guaranteed for one year, but there is the potential for a more long-term position if funding becomes available.
See Fellowship Announcement for further information and details about the position at Georgia State University.
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Hopkins Summer Institute in Adolescent Health and Development |
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
JUNE 16-27, 2008
The Summer Institute in Adolescent Health and Development at the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health offers the opportunities for domestic and
international clinicians, public health practitioners, faculty, and students to receive short-term,
intensive education about adolescent health and development. The Institute provides a unique
setting for interested practitioners to begin, develop, or enhance their skills and education
about adolescent health, development, and ways to serve this population. Participants will learn
about adolescent development, risk and protective factors, pressing health issues, transitions to adulthood, and the changing contexts of the lives of youth, along with strategies for
effective implementation. Courses offered by the Institute may be taken for academic credit or
non-credit/ continuing education.
See Program Announcement to register and for course details,
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RWJF Evaluation Fellowship Program |
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evaluation Fellowship Program: Call for
Applications, 2008
This call for applications invites recently graduated students (people of
color and under-represented groups) in various fields of expertise to submit
applications for the first year cohort, beginning January, 2009 through
December, 2009.
Deadline: June 30, 2008
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Congressional Briefing on Health Inequality and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
The U.S. government recently filed a required periodic report to the United Nations on the nation's progress toward the elimination of racial discrimination. The report cited progress in many areas, including health and health care. The U.N. CERD Committee agreed with some aspects of the report but noted that the United States has failed to recognize and remedy instances where facially-neutral policies contribute to inequality in health and health care.
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Kilolo Harris Wins 2008 Graduate Gender and Global Health
Presentation Travel Fellowship
 A. Kilolo Harris, CRECH
scholar and Health Behavior and Health Education doctoral student, has been selected to receive a Predissertation Gender and Global Health Travel Fellowship sponsored by the Institute for Research
on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the School of Public Health's Global Health
program. Participation in the internationally-based global health research training
program will allow Kilolo to continue her doctoral studies addressing the
health and mental health needs of Cubans of African descent. The award provides travel-related and living
expenses for two months, which Kilolo is using for her field research in Cuba
between April and June 2008.
National Institute on Aging (NIA) Awards Ana Quinones Research
Dissertation Grant to Increase Diversity of the Research Workforce on Aging
 CRECH Scholar, Ana Quinones, has been awarded an Aging Research
Dissertation Grant to Increase Diversity from the National Institute on Aging
(NIA) for a two-year period. Ms.
Quinones' grant title is called "Trajectories of health in old age: ethnic differences." See Abstract for more details.
For more information about the NIH/NIA Aging Research Dissertation
Grants, visit http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-117.html
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2008 Annual SAAPHI Symposium |
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Call For Abstracts: The Society for the Analysis of African American Public Health Issues (SAAPHI)
2008 Annual Symposium (in conjunction with the American Public Health Association's conference "Public Health Without Borders")
October 25, 2008
San Diego, CA
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Academy for Health Equity |
Building Capacity to Eliminate Health Disparities: The Founding Meeting of the Academy for Health Equity
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