Boston University School of Public Health has partnered with the School for Field Studies to offer an exciting field study opportunity in Kimana, Kenya.
Location:
School for Field Studies
Kilimanjaro Bush Camp, Kenya
Credits: 6 Credits
Dates: May 28 to July 2, 2012
Prerequisites: Epidemiology & Biostatistics core courses
Course: IH707
Tuition & Fees: $7,696
Room & Board: $1500
Includes:
Accommodations, meals, Nairobi
airport pick up and drop off, in-country transportation, national park entrance fees, and course materials. Participants pay cost of flight, visa, and Kenya pupil pass. Student are encouraged to purchase a competitively priced flight through SFS.
*Twenty-five BUSPH Students will receive a $3,000 Santander Universities Kenya Program Scholarship.
Application:
Open to all students enrolled in an
MPH program or public health track. Undergraduate students are not eligible.
Applications available at:
www.bu.edu/ihblast/ih-practicum/kenya-app
Applications will be accepted up until Feb. 16, 2012 (early applications encouraged).
For Questions, Contact:
Emily Jump via
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This five-week course in Kenya focuses on environmental and community health as it relates to the indigenous Maasai residing at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro. The Maasai community faces many new health challenges resulting in part from a recent shift from nomadic pastoralism to semisedentary pastoralism. This change in lifestyle has been associated with a rise in sanitation-related and water-borne diseases, infant and childhood diseases, and HIV/AIDS. This year, we will collect and analyze data to examine community health impacts surrounding the lack of access to potable water. Students will present their results to local Maasai Leaders and other stakeholders.
Each year, course activities are chosen to help illuminate issues faced by the Masaai community. In the first three years of its running, from 2007 through 2009, students designed and implemented one child health assessment and five cross-sectional household surveys as a part of the Field Practicum in Public Health and Environment course. Guided by faculty, students performed research and designed surveys to capture important environmental health data primarily among the Maasai living in the region. This included information on water sources and collection, storage, and treatment, health status, household sanitation, and hand hygiene. In 2010, students undertook a Monitoring and Evaluation program and investigated a Kenyan Ministry of Health's effort to address Trachoma. At the conclusion of every course, students present to community members, stakeholders, and SFS staff on the analyses conducted and recommendations.
Successful completion of this program meets the MPH practicum requirement for eligible BUSPH students. Because the program integrates fieldwork, data collection, analysis, findings, and a final presentation to the community, there is no additional practicum process required.
Program Specifics:
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- Implement a research project from soup to nuts: train in survey techniques, field-based data collection, analysis, report writing, and presentation.
- Complete the equivalent of an international health consultancy with the support of knowledgeable faculty and a network of committed classmates.
- Field visits to community programs.
- Work and study with MPH students from Moi University, Kenya.
- Safaris to Amboseli National Park.
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Santander Universities Kenya Program Scholarship: Twenty-five BUSPH students will receive a $3,000 Santander Kenya Program Scholarship to help cover the cost of room and board, and flight.
“Very challenging, be prepared to get dirty, be prepared to work in a group, be prepared for the experience of your life (2010).”
Application:
For directions on how to apply and application materials, go here.
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