Introduction

The Department of Epidemiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health is offering research training opportunities to minority undergraduate, graduate and health professions students who have an interest in the areas of nutrition, tropical infectious diseases, reproductive health and/or sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS and chronic disease.

As a recipient of one of these competitively awarded training positions, funded by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, you will have the unique experience of helping others while you learn in Bangladesh, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Jamaica, Peru or Burkina Faso.

Participating undergraduates and profession health students will spend three months (June – August) at their foreign training sites under the guidance of a UAB supervisor and a foreign mentor.

Graduate students usually spend three months overseas, but may be eligible for up to six months training.

TRAINEESHIP INCLUDES:

• MONTHLY STIPEND
• LIVING ALLOWANCE
• TRAVEL EXPENSES