global health research internship umc utrecht
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Global Health
Research Internship Info
Session
23-09-2016
Joyce Browne, Noor Mutsaerts, Meri Varkila
and Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch
Julius Global Health
Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, UMCU
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Agenda
• Julius Global Health
• Research internships at Julius Global Health
• General requirements for research internships
at Julius Global Health
• Current offers
• Tips & tricks to find an external research
internship
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Julius Global Health
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Rationale
Global health emphasizes transnational health
issues, determinants and solutions and aims to
achieve equity in health
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• Conduct high impact (clinical) epidemiologic
research generating evidence to contribute to
improved individual and population health
• Engage in capacity building of researchers and
health care professionals across the globe
• Work in collaborative partnerships for reciprocity
in benefit
Aims Aims
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Research Focus
• Cancer • Cardiovascular Disease • Infectious Diseases • Maternal and Child
Health • Environmental Health
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Research Locations
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South Africa: HIV and antiretroviral treatment
and cardiometabolic risk
Project examples:
• Ndlovu Reseach Consortium – a
multidisciplinary research
programme assessing prevention,
prognosis and management of
HIV and the interaction with
chronic diseases (Ndlovu Care
Group, UMCU, UU, Wits RHI;
Elandsdoorn)
• Inflammation and CVD risk in HIV
infection (Wits RHI, Johannesburg)
• HIV (treatment) in relation to
pregnancy complications and
infant outcomes (Wits DPHRU,
Soweto/Johannesburg)
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Project examples:
• Mhealth to enhance clinical
decision making of health care
providers to decrease maternal
and neonatal mortality and
morbidity
• Prediction and prevention of
hypertensive disorders in
pregnancy
• Perinatal outcomes after
hypertensive disorders in
pregnancies
Ghana: Reproductive and Child Health
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Collaboration with Mnazi Mmoja Hospital
• Assessment and improvement of fetal heart rate
monitoring
• Audits of care to pregnant and delivering women
Zanzibar: Reducing Stillbirth through improved
Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring
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Project examples:
• Breastfeeding optimization and impact on early
determinants of health (circulatory, respiratory)
• Early pregnancy cohort: Impact of Ramadan, incidence of
placental disorders
• Cardiovascular and neurocognitive consequences of HIV
infection in children
Indonesia: Maternal and Child Health
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Global Health
Student Research and Experiences
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• Noor Mutsaerts: Duration of protection following
maternal influenza vaccination
• Meri Varkila: The influence of HIV-infection on
pulmonary condition in Sub-Saharan Africa
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General requirements for a research
internship at Julius Global Health
and current offers
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Research Internships Julius Global Health (1)
• Duration:
– 12 weeks Netherlands
– 18 weeks (minimum) in case of international field
work
– Sometimes possible to arrange for 2 students
• Supervision:
– NL & international supervisor, weekly updates / skype
calls
• Characteristics successful student:
– Pro-active, open-minded, committed, culturally
competent, solution-seekers (important in LMIC!)
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Research Internships Julius Global Health(2)
• Financial coverage:
– Only for direct research costs, not for travel and
accommodation costs
– We support (travel) grant applications!
• Co-authorship:
– in principle yes, position depends on input
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Current internship offers (as of Sept 2016) (1)
Country Contact person
Title Details
South Africa
Alinda Vos/ Kerstin Klipstein
CVD risk factor profile by CIMT and pulse wave velocity in HIV-positive / negative Black Africans
- 24 weeks - Can inlcude systematic review,
field work at NRC - From Jan ‘17 onwards
Alinda Vos/ Kerstin Klipstein
Renal function to CIMT in HIV-positive and negative Black Africans
- 24 weeks - Can inlcude systematic review,
field work at NRC - From Jan ‘17 onwards
Alinda Vos
HIV and cardiac conduction patterns in South Africa
- Systematic review - Field work (incl ECG,
spirometrie, blood samples) - 24 weeks
Zanzibar Marcus Rijken/ Joyce Browne
Intrapartum fetal monitoring record keeping validation study
- 12-18 weeks - Start Nov/Dec - Can include short fieldwork
trip to enter data collected
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Current internship offers (as of Sept 2016) (2) Country Contact
person Title Details
NL Marcus Rijken
Oxytocine pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics modeling for a novel delivery system (the ‘bioneedle’)
12-18 weeks In samenwerking met Bangkok en bedrijf ‘Bioneedle’
Malaysia Amy Hwong Wen Yea/Ilonca Vaartjes
Improving stroke care in Malaysia: an assessment of stroke metrics and quality of stroke care
24 weeks Literature review, development of data collection tools for participating hospitals, can include a short fieldwork trip to implement the data collection sheet
Ghana Joyce Browne
Predictors of adhesions during caesarean section
12 weken, data-analyse in Nederland in samenwerking met Ghanese onderzoekers
Ghana Hannah Brown
Antenatal care service delivery in a low-resource setting and its effect on maternal mortality
12 – 18 weeks Includes field work From Jan ‘17 onwards
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Tips & tricks to find an external
research internship
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Do your homework:
– Check the research activities out of the person you’re
contacting
– Be specific about what you find interesting, also if this
includes a range of topics
– Know what you want to learn in a scientific internship
• Write an interesting and appealing e-mail introducing
yourself, why you’re interested in doing research with this
person, and what your internship requirements are (e.g. when,
duration, etc).
– Consider having it checked by a native speaker
• Include an (English) CV
NB: know that you can contact US for internal UMCU supervision
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More information
• Julius Global Health: www.globalhealth.eu
• Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch: K.Klipstein-
• Joyce Browne: