Project Malawi Application Open

Infectious Diseases and Public Health Research in Malawi, Summer, 2012

For the past 10+ years, the UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases and the Division of Infectious Diseases has sponsored first-year UNC medical students to conduct research at UNC Project in Lilongwe, Malawi for eight weeks during the summer.   If chosen, UNC faculty will sponsor and assist in applications for scholarships and grants, however students must procure their own funding.  (see list of opportunities below in Appendix 1).

This year we will be selecting ONE student who will work with mentors on the adult medicine ward on a variety of projects including the development of a clinical data base, establishing a universal HIV testing service including the initiation of antiretroviral therapy on the ward, and an in-patient cryptococcal meningitis treatment study.   The UNC Project, Lilongwe, Malawi website is:  http://www.id.unc.edu/malawi

Eligibility:  ­First-year medical students who are available for eight weeks during the summer, 2012.  Student must procure their own funds.  Total costs between $4,500-$5,000.

Application Deadline:  Applications are due by November 18, 2011

Select students will be granted a series of interviews with final decisions made by January 1, 2012.

Application Requirements

1. Current CV
2. One-page description of why you want to conduct research in Malawi, including your short- and long-term goals

Electronic applications must be sent to:

Irving Hoffman (hoffmani@med.unc.edu).

For more information, contact other medical students who have previously worked in Malawi or the OIA.