Fellows would work in one or more of the following areas:
- Testing new TB diagnostics and investigating their role in diagnostic algorithms, especially in the context of HIV.
- Operational research on new models of care in TB-HIV co-infection, sexual and reproductive health, discordant couples, and in young adults who are HIV infected; and evaluation of health systems.
- HIV longitudinal cohort research using over 43,000 unique patients’ data to answer operational questions related to HIV prevention care and treatment in both urban and rural settings.
- Prevention of early mortality after antiretroviral therapy with empiric TB therapy or through TB and cryptococcal antigen screening and treatment of positives.
- Evaluation of point-of-care technologies for HIV and related infections
Grant Period:
9 months
Candidate Profile:
Post third-year medical school; Ph.D. students in health sciences (post-Master’s-level).
Accepted Degree Levels:
Doctoral
Foreign Language Proficiency:
Not required, unless necessary for the successful completion of the project.
Additional Information: Although English is the official language, knowledge of the local language where one will be conducting research is an added advantage.
Fulbright Proposal Types:
Independent Study/Research: Yes
Graduate Degree Enrollment: No
Affiliation:
The candidate will be based at the Infectious Disease Institute, Makerere University in Kampala.
The U.S. partner for this project is the Johns Hopkins University.
Project Contacts:
Dependents:
Dependent support is available
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