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American Academy of Dermatology Resident International Grant
In keeping with its dedication to international educational opportunities, the American Academy of Dermatology provides funding for 12 U.S. and Canadian senior dermatology residents to participate in a four-week to six-week elective in Gaborone, Botswana, where participants rotate between the Princess Marina Hospital, in conjunction with the Botswana-UPenn Partnership, and the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI). Residents take part in dermatologic HIV care for both children and adults, and visit outreach sites in Francistown and Southern Botswana.
The grant allows residents an opportunity to learn about the care of tropical and HIV-related dermatologic conditions, as well as how to practice routine dermatology with finite resources. Residents are expected to prepare lectures and presentations, develop a database of photos, submit teledermatology consults, and present reports of their activities to the Academy and their home programs.
More than 30 dermatology residents have received grants to complete an international elective at the Princess Marina Hospital since 2008.
Incoming second- and third-year residents (for the academic year of 2013-2014) are encouraged to apply.
A total of 12 awards are available for 2013:
The submission deadline for rotations to be completed between January and June 2013 is April 27, 2012.
The submission deadline for rotations to be completed between July and December 2013 is Sept. 28, 2012.
Each applicant must include a letter of support from his or her program director or department chair, a short application essay, and a detailed curriculum vitae with his or her online application. Letters of recommendation must be addressed to the Education and Volunteers Abroad Commitee and be attached to the online application (no mail, email or faxes). Grant recipients receive a stipend for accommodations, board and insurance. The Academy covers airfare to Botswana.
The Education and Volunteers Abroad Committee reviews and makes decisions about all applications. Individuals are notified in May and November about the status of their applications.
Scholarships for AIDS 2012 XIX International AIDS Conference
July 22-27, 2012 Washington, DC
The deadline is 15 February 2012.
The conference organizers are committed to making AIDS 2012 accessible to people from resource-limited settings and communities, researchers, young people, community activists and civil society representatives.
For AIDS 2010 in Vienna over 800 scholarships were granted. For AIDS 2012 the same share of the total budget has been allocated for international and media scholarships. The organizers therefore have the ambition to be able to offer the same level of scholarships as that for AIDS 2010.
International Scholarship Programme
The International Scholarship Programme is open to everyone around the world. Priority is given to those whose participation will help enhance their work in their own communities, to those who are able to assist in the transfer of skills and knowledge acquired at the conference, and to those whose abstract, workshop or programme activity (Global Village or Youth Programme) submission has been selected.
Those interested in applying for an International Scholarship must complete the online international scholarship application form through their conference profile between 8 December 2011 and 15 February 2012.
Those submitting an abstract, workshop or programme activity proposal and interested in applying for an international scholarship should start their scholarship request through their conference profile. Applicants will then receive instructions on how to link their abstract, workshop or programme activity to their scholarship application.
International scholarship applicants will be asked to submit a letter of recommendation after completing the scholarship application. No international application will be accepted without submission of the letter of recommendation.
Media Scholarship Programme
A very limited number of scholarships will be available for media representatives from around the world.
Those interested in applying for a Media Scholarship must complete the online media scholarship application form through their conference profile between 8 December 2011 and 15 February 2012.
Media scholarship applicants will also be asked to provide media accreditation and supporting documents. No media application will be accepted without submission of the required supporting documents.
Application Criteria
Applications are open to anyone working in the field of HIV and AIDS.
Most of the questions asked on the application form are related to personal details and work experience. There are also essay questions which ask for further details regarding the applicant’s organization, occupation or involvement in the field of HIV and AIDS, motivation to attend the conference and how the applicant’s organization or community would benefit from the scholarship.
Types of Support
Scholarship applicants will be able to request a full or partial scholarship.
A full scholarship includes:
Registration fee for the conference (includes access to all sessions and exhibitions); Travel (pre-paid airfare or ground travel at the lowest fare available, from the nearest international airport or station); Accommodation (shared in dormitory rooms for the days of the conference); Modest daily living allowance for the duration of the conference (22-27 July 2012, USD 55 per day).
A partial scholarship includes any combination of the above.
Please note that funding is limited and demand for scholarships is high. Scholarship applicants are therefore encouraged to seek other funding as well.
Student Osteopathic Medical Association International Medical Relief/Medical Missions Scholarship
We are excited to introduce a new scholarship for this spring designed to meet the needs of those students who participate in international medical missions and relief trips. It is specifically designed for those trips of a short-term basis that do not meet the requirements for the general scholarship. Each student selected for the scholarship will receive up to $250 to cover transportation, room, board and essential expenses related to an international medicine missions/relief trip. The completion of this trip may take place during any part of the four years of study. This scholarship comes at the request of so many of you who take international relief trips each year and are looking for another source of financial support.
Requirements for consideration: Membership in National SOMA. Demonstrate a strong interest in international medicine. The trip does not have a length requirement but must take place in a country outside of the United States.
Once chosen for the scholarship, the site may not be changed without verbal and/or written consent of the IHP Director.
The applications will be accepted on a rolling basis and awards will be distributed each year at the annual spring SOMA convention in Washington D.C. Awards may be applied to rotations that have previously occurred or are yet to occur as long as the applicant is still a student at an accredited college of osteopathic medicine at the time the scholarship is awarded. Scholarships will be awarded to the extent that funding permits.
A student who wishes to apply must complete and submit an application form and verification form (for the general scholarship only) to National SOMA. Recipients will be selected at the discretion of the scholarship selection committee. Any questions should be brought to your local SOMA International Health representative or to the National Health Programs Director.
Deadline: March 26, 2012
Student Osteopathic Medical Association International Health Program Scholarships
The mission of the Student Osteopathic Medical Association's International Health Program is to promote international medicine and to develop an awareness of other cultures medical practice via direct student interaction. It is the desire of this program to provide resources to students interested in international health and to encourage osteopathic medical students to incorporate an international elective experience into their medical school curriculum.
Scholarship Information: General International Health Programs Scholarship: Each student selected for the scholarship will receive up to $500 to cover transportation, room, board and essential expenses related to an international medicine elective rotation. Rotation sites are selected by the student and approved by the respective Office of Clinical Education or equivalent at the osteopathic medical school prior to application. The completion of this rotation must take place during the student's 3rd or 4th year of study only.
Requirements for consideration:
Membership in National SOMA Entering the 3rd or 4th year of training Demonstrate a strong interest in international medicine Verification Form, signed and stamped by the school registrar, or similar, which affirms that the experience meets the school's requirements for an elective rotation The externship should be at least one month in length and must take place in a country outside the United States
Once chosen for the scholarship, the training site may not be changed without verbal and/or written consent of the IHP Director
Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases/International Society for Infectious Diseases Infectious Diseases Research Fellowship Program
ISID and the Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases (SSI) jointly sponsor the SSI/ISID Infectious Diseases Research Fellowship Program.
The purpose of this Fellowship Program is to support infectious disease physicians and scientists from developing and middle income countries through multidisciplinary clinical and laboratory training at select biomedical institutions in Switzerland. The objectives of the Fellowship Program are:
to train promising young physicians and scientists from developing and middle income countries for clinical and research positions in infectious diseases, to foster partnerships between Fellows and infectious disease leaders in Switzerland, and to increase scientific research capacity in low income/high disease burden countries.
Opportunities for training and research in a variety of areas ranging from basic studies of the mechanism of disease to studies in public health, epidemiology, diagnostics, therapeutics or vaccine development, are available through this program.
The term of the Fellowship is for one year. The start date of the will be determined by arrangement between the host institution and the Fellow.
A financial stipend of up to 36,000 SF per year (approximately $21,000 USD) will be given to Fellows to cover travel costs and living expenses. The program intends to award two fellowships every year.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Language skills of French or German are necessary according to the institution chosen (German for Basel, Bern, Zurich and St. Gallen; French for Geneva and Lausanne). Please indicate in your application your speaking and writing proficiency of these languages and of English.
return to top Training Sites SSI/ISID Fellows will be placed at one of six collaborating research centers in Switzerland according to technical interests and skills. All infectious diseases programs at each institution offer experience in clinical infectious diseases, including HIV, and microbiology. The technical research interests at each site include:
Bern: Meningitis. Brain injury in CNS infection. Molecular pathogenesis of respiratory pathogens. Epidemiology and resistance of pneumococcus. (Tauber MG, Leib SL, Aebi C, Muhlemann K)
Geneva: Clinical trials in hospital infections and HIV infection. Hospital hygiene and epidemiology. Genomics, molecular biology, and pathogenicity of S. aureus. Foreign body infections. (Lew D, Garbino J, Pittet D, Perrin L, Hirschel B,Vaudaux P, Schrenzel J, Kelley W, ) [additional information is available at http://www.geneve-infection.ch/]
Lausanne: Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance. Molecular pathogenesis of endocarditis. Cytokines and sepsis. Resistance, pharmaco-epidemiology, and therapeutic drug monitoring in HIV. Molecular epidemiology of nosocomial infections. Antibiotic use. (Glauser M, Calandra T, Moreillon P, Telenti A, Francioli P, Zanetti G)
Basel: Infectious diseases, hospital hygiene and epidemiology. Full clinical service in all areas of infection diseases and hospital hygiene and epidemiology. Pathophysiology and clinical research including health economy. HIV: pathogenesis and course of disease. (Battegay M, Flckiger U, Widmer A, Erb P) [additional information is available at http://www.kantonsspital- basel.ch]
Zurich: Clinical trials in HIV. Molecular biology of HIV, latent reservoirs, and anti-HIV immune response. HIV epidemiology. Intestinal infections. Zoonotic infections. Hospital epidemiology. (Weber R, Ruef C, Guenthart H, Opravil M, Trkola A, Flepp M, Speck R, Ledergerber B)
St. Gallen: Sexual transmission of HIV (Vernazza P). [additional information is available at http://www.infekt.ch]
Eligibility The program is open to applicants who are citizens or permanent residents of developing countries or Eastern Europe. Applicants should have a M.D. or a Ph.D in a relevant field and should hold a position at a medical, research, or public health institution. An endorsement by the home institution is required for participation in the program.
Applications will be reviewed by a joint SSI and ISID committee. Selection will be based on the applicant's academic potential, career plans, previous clinical/research experience, letters of reference, and relevance of training to home institution and home country. Personal interviews will be arranged with selected applicants as the final step in the application process.
The annual application deadline for Fellowship applications is 1 April. All applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application by 1 July.
Requests for application materials and additional information should be directed to:
ISID Professional Development Working Group 1330 Beacon Street, Suite 228 Brookline, Massachusetts 02446 USA
Fax: (617) 731-1541 E-mail: info@isid.org
International Society for Infectious Diseases Small Grants Program
The Small Grants Program is designed to fund pilot research projects by young investigators in developing countries. The goal is to support and foster the professional development of young individuals in the field of infectious diseases research by helping them to acquire additional skills and data to apply for other grants. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to investigations of the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis or treatment of infectious diseases, the epidemiology and control of hospital-acquired infections, and modeling of cost effective interventions.
Proposals will be reviewed by members of the Professional Development Working Group and decisions made in collaboration with the President and the Program Director.
Upon completion of the project, a written report of the project must be sent to the Society. The Society encourages recipients of grants to present their results at scientific meetings and to submit them for publication in peer-reviewed journals.
Deadlines Up to five grants of up to US $6,000 each will be awarded annually. Deadlines for submission of proposals are April 1 (notification after June 1) and October 1 (notification after December 1).
International HIV/AIDS Clinical Training Program
The International HIV/AIDS Clinical Training Program is an annual short course designed to educate infectious disease clinicians and other health care providers from developing and transitional countries in clinical, therapeutic, epidemiological, and public health issues relevant to the field of HIV/AIDS clinical care. Since 1998, the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) has trained approximately 100 clinicians from almost 47 different countries.
Program curricula include formal lectures, case discussions and practical experience in caring for HIV-infected adults and children. Emphasis is on the various presentations of HIV infection, differential diagnosis, patient management and new and experimental protocols for the diagnosis and treatment of HIV-infected individuals with opportunistic infections and HIV-associated neoplasms. The program also covers practical laboratory experience in procedures used to diagnose HIV infection and AIDS-associated infections.
In addition, participants are also given the opportunity to spend time at the public health departments associated with the respective training institutions to learn about AIDS- related public health issues in the U.S. Participants are expected to play an active role in discussions on pressing HIV/AIDS public health issues as well as community and global responses to the epidemic.
A modest stipend of $2,500 to help defray travel costs and living expenses is given to individuals accepted into the program. There are no course fees or tuition expenses.
Training Sites Participants in the program spend two weeks of intensive involvement in one of three sites. The training sites, program directors and coordinators, and phone contacts are:
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York Director: Dr. Kent Sepkowitz Contact: Melanie Carrow Tel: (212) 639-7809
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland Emphasizing AIDS in infants, children and adolescents, as well as in adults Director: Dr. Henry Masur Contact: Missy Harris Tel: (301) 402-0586
Application Community- and academic-based health care providers actively involved in the care of HIV-infected adults and/or children at their home institution may apply. Past participants have included community doctors; clinical microbiologists and virologists; infectious disease fellows; associate and assistant professors of pediatrics, infectious diseases, and internal medicine; and chairs of infection control committees in major hospitals.
Applications are reviewed by the Society in collaboration with the directors of the training sites. Selection is based on geographic considerations and the applicant's actual or planned role in caring for people with HIV disease in his or her community.
To be considered for the training program, applicants must submit the following documents:
a completed application form, including written statements a supporting letter from the applicant's sponsoring institution (e.g., hospital administrator, clinical director, service chief, departmental chair) indicating the applicant's role in patient care and/or training of other health care providers as well as expected benefits of the applicant's training to the institution a current CV
Three complete hard copies of the application packet must be submitted directly to: ISID - HIV Training Program 1330 Beacon Street, Suite 228 Brookline, MA 02446 USA
The annual deadline is October 15. (Note change from Dec. 1) All applications must be received by this date. Applicants will be notified of acceptance status by December 31.
For an application form or more information, please contact ISID at info@isid.org.
International Society for Infectious Diseases Scientific Exchange Fellowship Program
The ISID Scientific Exchange Fellowship Program was established in 1992 to promote collaboration among researchers in different countries by enabling infectious disease researchers in the formative stage of their career to extend their research experience in institutions outside of their region. These awards are not restricted to physicians and are intended to support young scientists from developing countries in updating their knowledge of new, relevant laboratory techniques or in learning specific skills and techniques.
Proposals that enhance the transfer of technologies to geographical areas where they are particularly needed will be favored.
Applicants are to be investigators (younger than 40 years) already working in a research area, but who have not had the opportunity to work or to study outside their countries or region.
Proposals will be reviewed by members of the Professional Development Working Group and decisions made in collaboration with the President and the Program Director. Funding will be provided for up to 3 months and up to US$7,500.
Deadline Up to two fellowships will be awarded each year. The annual deadline is March 1, and applicants will be notified after June 1.
Fax: (617) 278-9113 E-mail: info@isid.org
International Association for the Study of Pain Developing Countries Collaborative Research Grants
Application deadline is March 15, 2012.
Grant: Up to US$15,000
The IASP Collaborative Research Grants support international, interdisciplinary collaborations in pain research.
Eligibility Requirements:
The principal investigator in charge of the overall project must be a member of IASP of at least one year’s standing.
Three grants are available per year. The grants cover travel and accommodation costs to support collaborative research by two or more research groups located in different countries.
The IASP Committee on Research will evaluate all proposals according to:
a) scientific merit; b) the qualifications of the investigators; c) evidence of interdisciplinary collaboration. Collaborations between basic science and clinical research groups will receive priority.
IASP sponsorship will be in the form of a personal grant to the principal investigator of the project, who is responsible for managing funds and must submit a detailed financial and scientific report within two years. Publications arising from work supported by these grants must acknowledge the source of funding.
How to Apply: (All applications must be submitted in English and as a singled PDF file.)
Include with your application form:
A description of the research project. The curriculum vitae of the principal investigator from each collaborating institution. Evidence that the costs of the research itself are covered with other funds. Email your completed application to: IASPDesk@iasp-pain.org or Fax your completed application to: +1-206-283-9403
The deadline for receipt of applications is March 15. Awardees will be announced by May 1.
Please contact iaspdesk@iasp-pain.org if you have any questions, or call +1-206-283-0311.
International Association for the Study of Pain Developing Countries Project: Initiative for Improving Pain Education
Grant: US$10,000
Application deadline is February 15, 2012.
The IASP Developing Countries Project addresses the need for improved education about pain and its treatment in developing countries by providing educational support grants. These grants are intended to improve the scope and availability of essential education for pain clinicians of all disciplines, taking into account specific local needs. For example, funds may be used to combine practical instruction with theory, to develop specific written teaching materials, or to develop distance-learning materials.
The principal organizer must be based in a developing country and must have been a member of IASP for at least one year. Those who received an award from this program in the previous year are not eligible to reapply. Applications should be for one-year projects that are ready to begin within three months of the date of submitting this application. Grants will not be awarded for projects that are in the planning stages, and projects must have specific start and completion dates.
Ten grants will be given, each for up to US$10,000. Applicants must identify the total funds necessary for the project and the additional sources of funding.
Grants will support one-year educational projects designed to meet identified needs within a developing country.
Grants are not intended for projects that are still in the planning stages.
The project should be an educational course, written educational materials for general distribution, or a distance-learning course.
It is desirable, although not essential, for the project to be multidisciplinary.
If awarded, no funds will be sent to personal accounts. The grant award will be administered for the organizers of the education project by a non-profit institution, association, or organisation, with the understanding that no fees or overhead will be charged to IASP for this educational grant, or taken from the award.
The successful applicant must submit a quarterly progress report, as well as a detailed final report within 3 months of the project’s completion to IASP. This final report should include the following details:
The original aims of the project and a general assessment of its value; this must include measurable outcomes (measures of the impact and/or results of the project).
The number of persons taking part in the project and their professional status (undergraduates, doctors, nurses, and other health professionals).
Details of the course conduct, assessment methods, and results, including a final measure of the difference that the project has made. This includes the intended long-term follow-up with the participants or materials.
A record of any problems or difficulties encountered during the project.
A description of how the project can be developed and improved in the long term.
A financial statement accounting for the use of all the funds.
How to Apply:
(All applications must be submitted in English and as a single PDF file.)
Include a short form CV with your application.
Email your completed application and short CV to: IASPDesk@iasp-pain.org or Fax your completed application and short CV to: +1-206-283-9403
The deadline for receipt of applications is February 15. Awardees will be announced by May 1.
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