The Global Health Informatics Fellowship for Medical Students is a one-year fellowship opportunity for medical students at The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University to work on a global health research project under the supervision of Dr. Hamish Fraser.
This fellowship is designed to offer a unique opportunity for medical students with an interest in global health to learn advanced skills in health informatics and digital health appropriate to the resource poor environments and health challenges seen in regions such as Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America.
Applications will be accepted and reviewed from full-time medical students from The Warren Alpert Medical School who are in good academic standing.
Fellows will be chosen based on:
The selection committee will include informaticians, clinicians and public health practitioners from Brown University, and Moi University in Kenya.
The Fellowship application includes an opportunity for applicants to propose a project that will be part of a larger NIH funded research project to improve the quality of care of HIV patients in Western Kenya.
Dr. Fraser leads the Clinical & Global Health Informatics Evaluation Lab in the Brown Center for Biomedical Informatics, and has over 2 decades of experience in Global Health Informatics and has led major projects in Haiti, Peru, Rwanda, Malawi and Kenya. Key focuses of his work include the OpenMRS Open-Source Electronic Health Record (EHR) used in more than 45 Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), and work on improving diagnosis and management of patients with infectious diseases including HIV and TB.
He has a particular passion for evaluation studies that create real world evidence on whether health information systems improve quality of care and the functioning of health systems.
The Fellow will be registered as an active student under the Academic Scholar Program (ASP). The Fellow will be supported with a stipend plus additional funds to cover health insurance, the health service fee, travel to Kenya and ASP tuition fees.
The project chosen by the fellow will be part of the "Data Science for Decision Support in the HIV Care Cascade" an NIH research project to improve the quality of care of HIV patients in the AMPATH project in Western Kenya.
Brown University has a longstanding relationship with AMPATH and faculty, students and clinical trainees from Brown regularly travel to the site.
Join Dr. Hamish Fraser, of the Brown Center for Biomedical Informatics on October 18, 2023 at 3:30pm in the Warren Alpert Medical School Auditorium (Room 160) as he provides an overview of the 2024 Global Health Informatics Fellowship Program.