AFRO-NETS> Post-Doctoral Fellowship

[Fatima Suleman <fatima@hst.org.za>]

Post-Doctoral Fellowship
------------------------

http://news.hst.org.za/view.php3?id20020219

The Secure the Future Monitoring and Evaluation Unit is looking for a 
Post-Doctoral Fellow to be based at Yale University, Connecticut, 
USA. The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) based 
at Yale University has recently established a Monitoring and Evalua-
tion (M&E) Unit for the Bristol-Myers Squibb Secure the Future (STF) 
initiative. CIRA supports research in HIV prevention and care under-
taken by 50 University scientists with appointments in five of the 
University's graduate and professional schools. CIRA will bring this 
expertise to benefit Secure the Future's M& E Unit to monitor and 
evaluate progress of the more than 50 community based and medical re-
search projects supported by STF. The MEU will analyse progress and 
field visit reports and provides the projects technical assistance as 
required.

The M&E Unit is seeking to identify a post-doctoral fellow from one 
of the STF countries in Southern Africa, who will be based at CIRA 
for a one year period. The primary responsibilities of the post-
doctoral fellow will be to serve as a resource from the Southern Af-
rican region to Yale, and to help with the increasing amount of liai-
son work between Yale and the STF consultants, principle investiga-
tors and field staff in Southern and West Africa. The fellow will re-
view progress reports of the STF projects, assist in linking scien-
tific expertise at CIRA to the projects, and maintain a resource li-
brary for use by the principal investigators of the projects. The 
fellow will have an opportunity to attend classes at Yale and par-
ticipate in the many activities and projects undertaken by CIRA.

Interested candidates should have, within the past two years:
- completed medical training; or 
- received a PhD in social, behavioural or management sciences; or
- received a doctoral degree in public health.

The candidates should have demonstrated ability to design, carry out 
and analyze results of research projects and have an interest in pur-
suing a career in HIV/AIDS research. The Fellow will work with a team 
of evaluators and clinical monitors. All expenses associated with 
Fellowship will be paid by Secure the Future?.

The Context

SECURE THE FUTURE? is the US$ 115-million commitment by Bristol-Myers 
Squibb to find sustainable and relevant solutions for the management 
of HIV/AIDS in women and children and provide resources to improve 
community education and patient support in five countries in southern 
Africa and four in West Africa. It began as a five-year, US$ 100 mil-
lion commitment to southern Africa: South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, 
Lesotho and Swaziland. On March 14, 2001, Bristol-Myers Squibb 
pledged an additional US$ 15 million for four countries in Western 
Africa: Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali and Burkina Faso.

For more information visit Secure the Future? at:
http://www.securethefuture.com.

To send your CV:
Fax number: +27-11-456-6589
mailto:annette.ackerman@yale.edu
and cc:
mailto:phangisile.mtshali@bms.com

Closing Date
Please send your CV before the closing date of 28 February 2002. Im-
mediate applications will be preferred.

--
Fatima Suleman
Information Manager
Healthlink Programme
Health Systems Trust
P.O. Box 808, Durban, 4000
South Africa
mailto:fatima@hst.org.za
http://www.hst.org.za

--
To send a message to AFRO-NETS, write to: afro-nets@usa.healthnet.org
To subscribe or unsubscribe, write to: majordomo@usa.healthnet.org
in the body of the message type: subscribe afro-nets OR unsubscribe afro-nets
To contact a person, send a message to: afro-nets-help@usa.healthnet.org
Information and archives: http://www.afronets.org