Every Summer, the Nutrition and Global Health Program training opportunities build on numerous ongoing collaborative relationships that program affiliated faculty have with academic and professional institutions around the world. Below is the list of current opportunities, opportunities offered previously, and possible practical training options.
Examples of Past Projects
- Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis on Acute Malnutrition in Young Children
- Society for Health and Demographic Surveillance (SDHS) Internship
- Various Lown Scholar Practicum Projects
- Amos Health Practicum and Internship
- Community Led Total Nutrition Practicum
- Market Basket Survey of Street Vendors, Convenience Stores, and Supermarkets in Delhi
- Trends in Sales of Health Foods in the Cafeteria After an Intervention to Improve Diet Quality in a Workplace Setting in Nepal
- Effectiveness of Integrating Double Fortified Salt to Improve Iron Status and Reduce Anemia in recipients of the Public Distribution System Program in Uttar Pradesh, India (GAIN) – Baseline survey, one opportunity in India
- Evaluation of Health Nutrition and Population Programme (HNPP) as well as burden and implication of chronic disease in Bangladesh – three to four opportunities in Bangladesh (one global maternal child health, one chronic disease, one TB and Malaria, and one Nutrition)
- Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Children: A school-based cluster randomized controlled trial – one opportunity in Lebanon at the American University of Beirut
- James P. Grant School of Public Health Internship Programme, BRAC University Bangladesh, click here for more information – three opportunities in Bangladesh
- Malnutrition-Enteric Disease (MAL-ED) Study – two opportunities in Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Population Health Research in Dodoma, Tanzania – one opportunity in Dodoma, Tanzania
- Student Exchanges at St. John’s Research Institute (SJRI) in Bangalore, India
Other Examples of Organizations with Possible Practical Training Opportunities
- Addis Continental Institute of Public Health (ACIPH), (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
- Africa Academy for Public Health (AAPH), (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)(Atlanta, Georgia)
- Centre for Fetal Programming (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)(Geneva, Switzerland)
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (Washington, D.C.)
- Makerere University School of Public Health (Kampala, Uganda)
- National Institute of Public Health of Mexico (INSP) (Mexico)
- USAID Advancing Nutrition Project (Washington, D.C.)
- United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), (New York, NY)
- World Food Programme (Rome, Italy)
- World Health Organization (WHO) (Geneva, Switzerland)
- World Resources Institute (Washington, D.C)