Training Programs
Global Health Fellows NORTHERN/PACIFIC GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH FELLOWS TRAINING CONSORTIUM
Fogarty Global Health Fellowship Program The Northern/Pacific Universities Global Health Xiuying Zhang (seated) worked with investigators on a study of Research Training Consortium is a partnership between diabetes and other related metabolic diseases in China the Universities of Washington, Hawaii, Michigan and Minnesota. The Consortium is one of several across the United States that hosts the Global Health Fellowship Program, which is sponsored by the Fogarty International Center and several other institutes and offices of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Global Health Fellowship Program replaces the Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars and Fellows Program in offering 11-month clinical research training for post-doctorate trainees and doctoral students in the health professions. UMMS made four inaugural awards in Summer 2012, one each to a US scholar and a US fellow, and two international fellows. (See opposite page to read about UMMS student Nauzely Abedini’s experience.) UMMS will support three post-doctoral fellows in the upcoming year, including one extension from last year. 2013-2014 Fellows Dr. Daniel Chai Chivatsi, Senior Veterinary Pathologist at the Institute of Primate Research in Nairobi, Kenya, will be working under the mentorship of UMMS OBYGN faculty Dr. Jason Bell as he studies the Olive baboon as a nonhuman primate animal model for Human Papillomavirus infection. He will conduct prevalence, pathology, and infectivity studies in wild-caught animals in Kenya.
Dr. Constance Opoku (left) is shown with Dr. Katherine Spangler, Polyclinic Directorate at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi. Dr. Opoku is a Family Physician at the Tamale Teaching Hospital in Ghana. Her 2012-2013 project focused on the attitudes and practices surrounding cervical cancer screening in Ghana.
Dr. Ching-Ping Lin, Senior Fellow in the Institute of Translational Health Science at the University of Washington, has received an extension on her award to continue working on the Pinggu Metabolic Disease study under a University of Michigan and Peking University collaboration. The study aims to explore genetic and environmental factors affecting Chinese populations with Type II diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and to explore the interaction between genetic and environmental factors for these diseases. Dr. Rockefeller Oteng was awarded an 11-month fellowship at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, Ghana. Dr. Oteng, who is an instructor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UMMS, hopes to show that the introduction of Emergency Medicine as a specialty at KATH has made a difference in patient outcomes. He intends to set up a trauma/injury database and perform a systematic review with an eye towards salvageable deaths.
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