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Outreach Africa meeting, Wed., Jan. 30, 6pm
On Wednesday, January 30th at 6pm in LIB 2032 (2nd floor, south side of Main Library) the African Studies program will be sponsoring a meeting with Outreach Africa, based out of Union, Iowa, to introduce students and faculty to the unique opportunities available to volunteer with the organization in Tanzania, East Africa.

http://www.outreachafrica.org/

Outreach Africa has established exceptional ties with villages and communities of Singida, Tanzania.  With the help of professionals from across Iowa and the country, the organization has helped begin community health, agriculture, education and clean water programs.  These sustainable programs have been bettering the circumstances of the 22,000 residents and a feeding center being built in Singida town will serve 500 street and vulnerable kids each day.

There is a unique opportunity for students at the University of Iowa to get involved in these projects through a short-term trip to Tanzania. Nursing and pre-health professions students can participate in the exchange program at the government hospital.  Education majors can help teach English at the local school Outreach Africa built, which currently has a 100:1 student-to-teacher ratio.  Engineering students may be interested in helping with the clean water project or initiating new developments. The founders of Outreach Africa and University of Iowa students who traveled to the area in 2007 will meet with students and faculty and will be sharing their experiences.  In addition, insights and plans for returning to Tanzania in 2008 will be discussed.

Any student or faculty member interested in learning about the organization is encouraged to come!

Studies Abroad
http://www.iiepassport.org/

Volunteer Abroad With Unite For Sight
http://www.uniteforsight.org/intl_volunteer

How Do I Apply?  The application as well as complete details about Unite For Sight's international opportunities are available at http://www.uniteforsight.org/intl_volunteer/

What is Unite For Sight's Mission? Unite For Sight (http://www.uniteforsight.org) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness. 
Unite For Sight's work to prevent blindness and restore sight is featured weekly on CNN INTERNATIONAL from September 2007-August 2008

What Do Volunteers Do?: The goal of Unite For Sight and its partner eye clinics and communities is to create eye disease-free communities.  Unite For Sight’s volunteers (local and visiting) work with partner eye clinics to provide eye care in communities without previous access.  Visiting volunteers from North America range from undergraduate and medical students, educators, nurses, and public health professionals to optometrists and ophthalmologists.  The eye clinic’s eye doctors and Unite For Sight volunteers jointly provide community-based screening programs in rural villages.  The clinic’s eye doctors diagnose and treat eye disease in the field, and surgical patients are brought to the eye clinic for surgery.  Patients receive free surgery funded by Unite For Sight so that no patient remains blind due to lack of funds

What Programs Are Available?  Winter 2008, Spring 2008, Summer 2008. Fall 2008. Opportunities any time of the year.  http://www.uniteforsight.org/intl_volunteer

Global Health Council Conference
The Global Health Council Conference is May 2008 in Washington, DC. http://www.globalhealth.org/conference/view_top.php3?id=766 Deadline for abstract submission is October 17th

University of Iowa Global Health Club
The UI Global Health Club is a new student organization welcoming students, faculty and staff to join and to participate in global health related events. Monthly meetings are announced via a list serve. To be added to the list serve contact victoria.schweiger@gmail.com or globalhealthclub@gmail.com

International Fellowship Program Seeks Applicants
I call your attention to an exciting clinical research training experience for graduate level U.S. students in the health professions, the NIH/Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Program. The program offers a one-year clinical research training experience to advanced standing students in U.S. medical, osteopathic, or dental school; or students enrolled in doctoral level programs at U.S. schools of public health, optometry, nursing, pharmacy, or veterinary medicine.

This is an opportunity for highly motivated individuals to experience mentored research training at top-ranked NIH funded research centers in a diverse group of countries, including Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, China, Haiti, India, Kenya, Mali, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, and Zambia.

The program is sponsored by the NIH's Fogarty International Center (FIC) in partnership with the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the NIH National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, and the NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse. The Association of American Medical Colleges, Vanderbilt University, Meharry Medical College, Indent Inc., and the Association of Schools of Public Health are managing the program.

The deadline to apply for the program is December 14, 2007.

To learn more and to obtain an application, please visit www.aamc.org/overseasfellowship, or contact fic-fellowship@aamc.org with questions.

Please take a look at the flyer

The International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE):
is pleased to announce that it is providing funding for ten $500 scholarships for graduate students for support to attend the Seventh International Research Conference on Service-Learning and Community Engagement "Sustainability and Scholarship: Research and the K-20 Continuum" October 6-9, 2007, Tampa, FL. The conference features a pre-conference workshop on CBPR.
Application deadline: September 3, 2007
Applications are available at: http://www.floridacompact.org/irsl/

American Public Health Association-International Health Section Award Program, sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive.
Community-Based Field Research Grants to Young Faculty and Students at Schools of Public Health for Behavioral Hygiene Promotion and Global Health.
The International Health Section of APHA in collaboration with Colgate Palmolive is pleased to announce the third round of a small grants program to support young faculty and students in schools of public health or tertiary institutions with an established public health program to carry out community-based field research in behavioral hygiene. These competitive grants will be awarded for community-based research projects investigating the role of hygiene (especially hand washing with soap) in personal and community health and infection control, including investigations about the knowledge or proper hygiene habits, hygiene motivation and behavior chance. The research should focus on mothers, families and children in resource poor settings. Each award will be in the range of $10,000-$15,000. A total of $30,000 is available to support this initiative each year. Awards will be made on the basis of merit as determined on independent review by 5 senior reviewers. Three awards will be made, with preference being given to projects carried out in the one of the following countries: Puerto Rico, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Thailand, Malaysia, South Africa, Senegal, Kenya, Mozambique, or the United States. The U.S. investigation would need to focus on migrant or immigrant populations. Awards will be made through schools of public health or tertiary institutions with an established public health program. The institution concerned can be based in the United states or in another country as long as the field work is carried out in one of the above countries, or developing country, if the proposal is of superior merit. Those projects which are funded will be presented and/or recognized at the annual meeting of APHA at the World Federation of Public Health meeting there. APHA, working in collaboration with the Working Group on Community- Based Primary Health Care of the International Health Section, will take responsibility for administering the program. This round of the competition is formally announced with this notice. The deadline for the submission of proposals is 17 November 2007, with funded projects beginning on 1 February 2008.
Only proposals submitted according to our guidelines will be accepted. These guidelines can be obtained from Morgan Taylor morgan.taylor@apha.org
For further information, contact: Paul Freeman freeman.p.a.@att.net Co-Chair, Working Group on Community-Based Primary Health Care, International Health Section, American Public Health Association.

Child Family Health International offers Global Health Electives for Students of the Health Sciences:
Spend 4 or 8 weeks working with local doctors in a variety of healthcare settings. Opportunities in Ecuador, Bolivia, Mexico, Nicaragua, India, South Africa…
http://cfhi.org/program_intro.php4

Opportunity for Students in Rainforest of Amazon in Peru - Unique course in medicinal plants and natural medicines:
The program places students in the classroom with top scientists and clinicians in the fields of tropical ethnobotany, pharmacognosy, pharmacology, and toxicology. Students attend seminars and meet patients being treated at the most advanced hospital of natural medicine in Peru. Students who participate are immersed in the world of shamans and indigenous healers in addition to the basic sciences. Students return from this course prepared to educate a U.S. public that is clamoring for natural health products. In addition to learning about medicinal plants and their use, this course allows the students to grow both professionally and personally as they explore new cultures and gain experience communicating about global issues and concerns. This course provides students with experiential and didactic opportunities for increasing their fundamental knowledge of medicinal plants and alternative medicine. This course has been offered as advanced practice experiences, independent study and didactic course credits for students. In the past six years, GAl has hosted student pharmacists and faculty from six U.S. colleges of Pharmacy.
For more information visit http://www.geocities.com/gaiglobal2/ and/or contact Dr. Brodman at Brodman@nova.edu or 954-262-8205.

The Global Health Fellows Program (GHFP) has for goal to improve the effectiveness of USAID Population, Health and Nutrition programs by developing and increasing capacity of health professionals in Washington, DC and overseas. This is accomplished through the recruitment, placement and support of a broad spectrum of health professionals; a diversity initiative focused on providing internship and mentoring opportunities in international public health to underrepresented communities; and professional and organizational development activities to bolster USAID’s ability to maximize results and strengthen its leadership role in international health.
http://www.ghfp.net/index.fsp

Career Websites for International Students
http://careerforum.net/index.asp?lang=E (CFN), is a career portal created for Japanese-English bilinguals studying abroad.

http://gulfjobsites.com/  is a directory resource where links to websites that carry jobs and vacancies in the Arabian / Persian Gulf region are provided.

http://www.careerage.com/ is a Jobs & Career website for India.

http://www.careerindia.com/

http://www.tiptopjob.com/ is the on-line recruitment resource for both jobseekers to search for jobs and for jobs advertisers to advertise their job vacancies. The jobseeker service is completely free of charge. Search for jobs and make job applications online, request jobs by email for notification when suitable jobs are registered, register a C.V. to be head-hunted by employers, read our career advice in the career centre are some of the options to help you in your job hunt all over the world.

http://international.jobs.com/ is a Global job search site.

http://www.jobsabroad.com/search.cfm features jobs in countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.

http://www.4icj.com/  4 International Careers & Jobs is an international employment directory selecting and reviewing world-wide top job sites. 4icj.com includes several thousands of employment sites in 190 countries and is a free starting point to find overseas jobs, international careers and work abroad.

http://www.overseasjobs.com/

http://www.icpa.com/ ICPA has been providing global companies with executive recruitment services since 1992. It assists both established and emerging American, European and Japanese multinational firms hire staff and executives for their offices. Their aim is to be the first choice in recruitment for Japan by providing a superior blend of industry knowledge, cross-border skills, and insight into Japanese labor market conditions.

http://hkjobs.com (Hong Kong Jobs)