Research and Elective Opportunities-International Education and Research- Tufts University

Research and Elective Opportunities

Christian Medical College

The Department of Public Health & Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Christian Medical College/Vellore, in Tamil Nadu, India, have a 35-year history of collaboration in research and education. The combination of excellence in medical research at CMC and the expertise in Infectious Diseases at Tufts has enabled outstanding joint research (primarily in intestinal infectious diseases, and more recently in HIV/AIDS), bilateral exchanges of faculty, and excellent training opportunities in India for Tufts medical and public health students. The culmination of that relationship is the development of a Masters in Public Health (MPH) program in Vellore, with the curriculum jointly developed by Tufts and CMC faculty.

http://www.tufts.edu/med/education/globhealthedexp.html

Cuban Experience: Graduate Research Internships in Cuba

This internship is one of many opportunities at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The program enables graduate students across the schools at Tufts to pursue short-term research internships in Cuba in the fields of education, agriculture, health, the environment and cultural studies. Contact the Latino Center for more information.

http://ase.tufts.edu/latinocenter/Index.html

Dental Student Aid Trips

Under the guidance of the Public Health and Community Service department, Tufts dental students and faculty have the opportunity to travel internationally to provide dental services to underserved populations. These trips are organized for faculty and staff to broaden their horizons and practice dental medicine in differing areas of the world. Dental Missions serve to educate both the clinical skills and international views of students and faculty.

http://dental.tufts.edu/1186056458091/TUSDM-Page-dental2ws_1186234236603.html

Fletcher Student Exchange Programs

The Fletcher School provides many opportunities for students to supplement their education with joint degree and exchange programs with some of the world's leading professional schools and graduate programs. Student can choose from six pre-approved programs in countries such as Switzerland or Germany, or contact a host institution of their choice and create their own program.

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/academic/exchanges.shtml

German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literature

The Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures is the administrative home to those languages and literatures taught at Tufts that do not fall under Classics, English, or Romance Languages. Currently German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, and Swahili are taught. Various other languages are added if staffing and student interest permit. The department offers a master's degree in German, and undergraduate majors in German language and literature, German studies, Russian language and literature, Chinese, Japanese, and--in conjunction with other departments--Judaic Studies, Russian and East European studies, Asian studies, Middle Eastern studies and International Letters and Visual Studies. Students can also choose minors in German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Judaic studies, and Arabic. We offer not only excellent language and literature courses but also cutting-edge literary and visual theory courses as well as a number of international film courses in English.

http://ase.tufts.edu/grall/

Global Health Internship at Father Muller Medical College

Father Muller Medical College and the Public Health & Family Medicine Department at TUSM offer Tufts medical and public health students two-month summer fellowships in Mangalore, India. Each summer since 2005, six Tufts students have participated in a rich didactic and clinical program taught by Father Muller faculty. In addition, students visit local hospitals, community health centers, homeopathy clinics and other medical facilities including uniquely Indian health settings such as ashrams and ayurvedic medicine centers.

http://www.tufts.edu/med/education/globhealthedexp.html

Global Health Internship in Panama

This program was developed in collaboration with the School of Medicine at Panama University (Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Panama). Students are assigned to a community health center in the Panama West Health Area, where they have the opportunity to work as volunteers. Their days are divided between volunteer work and the study of Spanish, with an emphasis on medical terminology.

http://www.tufts.edu/med/phfm/news.htm

Global Health Internships in East Africa

This project, based on work conducted by Dr. Jeffrey Griffiths, Associate Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine, places students at the Institute of Public Health at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, and the School of Public Health at Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Students function as facilitators, helping faculty at the participating institutions learn how to use Tufts University Sciences Knowledgebase (TUSK).

http://www.tufts.edu/med/education/globhealthedexp.html

Hickey-Peyton International Travel Fellowship

The Hickey-Peyton Travel Fellowship was established through an anonymous gift to the Tufts School of Medicine to support students interested in public health research/activities in international settings. It is hoped that, by taking advantage of this opportunity, students will gain a broader perspective on the roles of public health and medical care practice. Fellowships are awarded annually to first-year medical students.

http://www.tufts.edu/med/phfm/news.htm

Innovative Curricula in Water & International Research

The Innovative Curricula in Water & International Research is a five-year NIH-funded "Roadmap" program. Its goal is twofold: to develop and implement a health and water curriculum in the new Tufts University Water: Systems, Science, and Society interdisciplinary program, and to create novel interdisciplinary Internet-based curricula linking Tufts University with East African public health educators, researchers, and institutions.

http://www.tufts.edu/med/education/globhealthedexp.html

International Collaborations at the School of Dental Medicine

Dr. Noshir Mehta, Assistant Dean for International Relations, has been working to establish an ongoing international presence for Tufts Dental School. Recognizing that the power of the internet and video conferencing techniques, the changes in International Dental Education, and the need for Tufts to stay in the forefront of Dental Education, the faculty and institutional collaborations have been established in Europe, China, India, and Latin America.

http://dental.tufts.edu/1176818449376/TUSDM-Page-dental2w_1217926838134.html

International Medical Elective in Nicaragua

Each February, a medical team comprised of approximately 10 TUSM faculty and nurses accompanied by eight fourth year medical students travel to Siuna, Nicaragua in order to provide healthcare and educational information to the local community. Siuna is an impoverished former gold mining town 150 miles east of Managua that is surrounded by farming villages. The trip is in partnership with Bridges to Community, a non-profit organization committed to improving health and well-being in the developing world. Students and faculty spend 24 days in Siuna and its environs, making house calls, working in local clinics and in the hospital, providing direct medical care, teaching patients and learning about health-related problems faced by people in the third world. Prior to the trip, students participate in coursework in tropical diseases, public health issues, heavy metal poisoning (and other illness related to contaminated water), cross cultural medicine, Nicaraguan culture and history. For further questions, please contact Brian Lisse, M.D. at lisse@massmed.org

Joint & Exchange Programs with the Fletcher School

The Fletcher School allows students to supplement their education with joint degree and exchange programs with some of the world's leading professional schools and graduate programs.

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/academic/exchanges.shtml

Niramaya MD/MPH Summer Field Experience

The MPH Program has established a program with Niramaya, a public health non-profit in Mumbai, India that provides medical care and health education/health promotion programs to a rag-pickers colony in the Mumbai slums. This program provides MD/MPH students an opportunity to learn about the health problems specific to urban slums in the developing world and to provide assistance to Niramaya with their data collection and analysis. The contact person is Dr. Anthony Schlaff, Associate Clinical Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine and MPH Program Director.

http://www.tufts.edu/med/phfm/faculty/schlaff-anthony.htm

Occupational Therapy International Programs

Through international collaboration, the Department of Occupational Therapy sponsors three unique study abroad programs in occupational therapy in Edinburgh, Scotland; Oxford, England; and Stockholm, Sweden. The Boston School of Occupational Therapy is affiliated with Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh, Oxford Brookes University and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

http://ase.tufts.edu/bsot/programsInternational.htm

Physics Department Graduate Student Exchange

The Departments of Physics of Tufts University and University of Pavia, Italy have had a research collaboration and exchange program in place since 2006. University of Pavia is one of the oldest and best universities in Italy. The collaboration is designed to allow advanced graduate students the opportunity to conduct research at the University of Pavia and the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN). Both Universities are participating in ATLAS, a new particle physics experiment. Students conduct their research at the host institutions for up to 12 months, and receive their Ph.D. from their parent Universities. Additionally, students are awarded an International Certificate of Participation upon completion of the program.

http://ase.tufts.edu/faculty-guide/fac/ksliwa.astrophys.htm

Quito Integrated Environment and Policy (QUIEP) Program

This three-year National Institutes of Health-funded program, directed by Dr. Jeffrey Griffiths, represents an international collaboration to encourage research in developing countries on topics that combine the issues of health, environment, and economic development. The goal is to improve understanding of the relationships between these topics and to help guide policy. The program encourages faculty and student exchanges at the Schools of Medicine, Engineering, and Fletcher.

Sustainable Sweden Tour and Internships in Swedish Eco-Municipalities

Sweden is developing a growing number of "eco-municipalities" in which the principles of sustainable development are put into practice at the municipal level. For the past two years, Urban Environmental Policy and Planning students, with help from the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and Tufts Institute for the Environment, have arranged their own Sustainable Sweden tours and internships in a variety of eco-municipalities. Students then spend the second half of their internship in a U.S. municipality that has the potential to become an eco-municipality.

<h4>A Mission to Help </h4>

<p>During the summer of 2007, Tufts dental student Marjorie Brisard traveled to her native Haiti this summer with a team of classmates and faculty members. For Brisard, the trip was one step toward fulfilling a life's goal.</p>

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<p>Working for the United Nations Mission in Sudan gave two Fletcher School students a unique view into an international peacekeeping operation and a new outlook on the Darfur conflict.</p>

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<h4>Attacking Avian Flu</h4>

<p>Tufts researchers in Indonesia lead the way training community surveillance and response teams to detect and respond to the potential pandemic.</p>

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<h4>Bienvenue à Talloires</h4>

<p>The Tufts in Talloires program allows students to explore a foreign culture -- and themselves.</p>

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<h4>Bon Anniversaire! </h4>

<p>The Tufts European Center at Talloires, France, celebrated its 30th anniversary in April 2008 with an event on Tufts University’s Medford/Somerville campus.</p>

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<h4>Castle in the Clouds </h4>

<p>Elliot Hirshon (A'05) recalls a trip to Tibet with Engineers Without Borders.</p>

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<h4>Change Agent</h4>

<p>Salome Otami, a Tufts Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development graduate student, hopes to make a difference when she returns to her native Ghana.</p>

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<h4>Connecting Across Continents </h4>

<p>Students in GMAP, a combined residency and Internet-mediated graduate program at Tufts University's Fletcher School, are gaining an interdisciplinary education in global affairs, while making lifelong connections with their classmates from around the world.</p>

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<h4>Deliverance</h4>

<p>Through the organization he founded, LimaKids, Joseph Donroe (A'98, MD/MPH'07) seeks to address both mental health and quality of life issues of orphaned children in Peru's capital city.</p>

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<h4>Discovering Ghana </h4>

<p>The unique Ghana Gold Study Tours helps Tufts students see Ghana through a different lens.</p>

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<h4>Giving Peace a Chance</h4>

<p>An initiative to solve the intractable conflict in Iraq brought the warring sides together in Helsinki for talks-thanks in part to critical Tufts connections.</p>

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<h4>Jumbo Goes to Africa </h4>

<p>In May 2008, members of the Tufts field hockey team spent two weeks exploring southern Africa.</p>

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<h4>Lautze's Dams of Malaria in East Africa </h4>

<p>School of Engineering student Jonathan Lautze uses research from his university studies to construct a way to reduce the transmission of malaria through water resource engineering and management.</p>

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<h4>Sharing Power </h4>

<p>Current and past Tufts students joined forces in May 2008 to pass along the Tufts ideal of active citizenship to the youth of Central America.</p>

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<h4>The Future's So Bright...</h4>

<p>A group of Tufts students committed to promoting renewable energy found themselves energized by a trip to a star-studded conference in the United Arab Emirates.</p>

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<h4>True Blessings</h4>

<p>Sue Higgins, T86, G02, has seen firsthand the difference occupational therapy can make in the lives of adults and children living in Mexico.</p>

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<h4>Welcome to America </h4>

<p>In 2000, Jane Leu (J'91) founded Upwardly Global, a San Francisco nonprofit dedicated to helping legal immigrants find work in their field. Today, with more than a dozen employees and a field office in Manhattan, the organization has assisted immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers from some 65 countries.</p>

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<h4>Welcome To Arada Vieja </h4>

<p>Jonny Crocker (E'07), the former president of Engineers Without Borders, talks about the group's water filtration project in rural El Salvador.</p>

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