Download MPH Field Experience Award Winners 2010-2011

MPH Field Experience Fund Award Recipients
2010-11
Individual Awards
Jessica Alderman: “A Needs Assessment to Reduce Barriers to Accessing Maternal Health
Clinics among the Tamang Community in the Raswa district of Nepal”
Faculty Mentor: Rajiv Rimal
Location: Nepal
Viraj Bhise: “Designing a Framework for Operational Analysis of the Community-based
Childhood Acute Respiratory Infection Management Program Run by SEARCH in Gadchiroli,
India”
Faculty Mentor: Gilbert Burnham
Location: India
Mohammed Khair ElZarrad: “Social and Cultural Factors Contributing to Delayed Breast Cancer
Presentation among Women in Jordan from the Perspective of Physicians”
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Platz
Location: Jordan
Cecelia Rose English: “Evaluation of Current Practices in Pediatric Cancer Treatment and
Chemotherapy Administration in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Recommendations for the Future”
Faculty Mentor: Andrea Ruff
Location: Ethiopia
Mélodie Kinet: “A New Mode of Resettlement: Assessing the New Roots Community Farm
Project at the International Rescue Committee”
Faculty Mentor: Courtland Robinson
Location: San Diego, CA
Christopher Lee: “Tsunami Displacement, Return, and Recovery: Finalizing a Three-rong
Survey (2005-2011) of 600 Households in Aceh, Indonesia”
Faculty Mentor: Courtland Robinson
Location: Indonesia
Kenanao Motlhoiwa: “Quality Monitoring Guidelines for a Study on Exclusivity of
Breastfeeding and its Impact on the Nutritional Status of HIV-infected and Uninfected Lactating
Women in Botswana”
Faculty Mentor: Carl Latkin
Location: Botswana
Heather Scobie: “Demography of the Malaria-endemic Chittagong Hills Region of Bangladesh
as Part of a Malaria Surveillance Effort”
Faculty Mentor: David Sack
Location: Bangladesh
Rachel Steckelberg: “Evaluation of a Continuing Medical Education Program for Nurses and
Midwives in Uganda”
Faculty Mentor: Robert Bollinger
Location: Uganda
Riley Steiner: “Intentions and Incidence in HIV-Positive Women on Antiretroviral Therapy in
South Africa”
Faculty Mentor: Michele Decker
Location: South Africa
Jacob Taylor: “Developing a Mental Health Training Tool for General Practitioners in Liberia”
Faculty Mentor: Lawrence Wissow
Location: Liberia
Group Awards
“Critical Services to Iraqi Refugees Project – Lebanon”: Leah Harvey, C.P. Hsia, Anne
Kanyusik, James Ross
Faculty Mentor: Gilbert Burnham
Location: Lebanon
“Improving Research and Expanding Capacity to Fight Sex Trafficking in Nepal”: Pujita Vaidya
and Erica Lessem
Faculty Mentor: Michele Decker
Location: Nepal
“JHPIEGO Indonesia Cervical Cancer Prevention Program Evaluation”: Julian Brunner and Ana
Tergas
Faculty Mentor: Young-Mi Kim
Location: Indonesia
“JHSPH TSEHAI Project: Development of the Master Pediatric Protocol”: Nakiya Showell and
Lorraine Beraho
Faculty Mentor: Andrea Ruff
Location: Ethiopia
“Measuring Exposure to Secondhand Smoke in Public Places in Bangladesh, Ecuador, and Japan
in Support of 100% Smoke-free Legislation”: Denise Dvorquez, Seema Pursnani, Kei Katsuno
Faculty Mentor: Erika Avila-Tang
Locations: Bangladesh, Ecuador, and Japan