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Education: Postdoctoral and Visiting Scientists

Fogarty International Training and Research Opportunities

This brochure describes training opportunities in AIDS/HIV, TB, STDs, hepatitis and emerging infections for individuals from Central/Eastern Europe who are interested in pursuing a career in infectious diseases. Applicants from the following countries may apply.

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• New York State International Training Program, January 2007 (PDF -- 342K)
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The New York State International Training Program is a multi-institutional, multi-national collaborative effort, sponsored by the Fogarty International Center and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The program is cooperatively administered by the Wadsworth Center and the Division of Epidemiology, New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) at Albany; the State University of New York at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn; and the State University of New York School of Public Health (SPH) at Albany.

The overall program objective is to train public health and laboratory scientists, epidemiologists, clinicians, and other health professionals to deal with AIDS/HIV, TB, STDs, hepatitis and emerging infections that impact the countries of Armenia, Estonia, Georgia and Russia. Training will be provided by infectious disease specialists, clinicians and research scientists from the following partner institutions:

USA
New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center and Division of Epidemiology
School of Public Health, University at Albany
State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center
National Development and Research Institutes
New York Blood Center
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

International
The Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, PHLS (for England and Wales)
The World Health Organization (WHO)

The training areas include:

Bacteriology
Behavorial Intervention
Drug Resistant Organisms
Emerging Infections
Epidemiology with a Focus on Infectious Diseases
Hepatitis
HIV/AIDS
Immunology
Nosocomial Infections
Parasitology
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Tuberculosis
Virology

The training for each of the applicants will be tailored according to his/her interest within the parameters of the program. It is our aim that each applicant, upon returning to his/her home institution, will develop their own research program, develop and implement epidemiologic/laboratory studies, and/or spearhead improvements in diagnostics, and in enhancing existing and developing new public health programs focused on infectious disease.

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