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Results of Competition

Graduate Thesis Grants in Public Health,
First Round 2003


(May 19, 2003)

The Research Coordination Program of the Pan American Health Organization takes pleasure in announcing the results of the competition for Graduate Thesis Grants in Public Health.

The approved projects are the following:

  1. Epidemiology of human Campylobacter-associated gastroenteritis in Barbados: identification of likely sources of infection
    Suzanne Workman
    University of the West Indies
    Barbados

  2. An Evaluation of “The humanized attention for low-birth weight infants - Kangaroo mother care” - in Brazil
    Anisio Veloso Pais e Melo Junior
    London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - University of London
    Unversidade Federal de Pernanbuco
    Brasil

  3. Avaliação do apoio social como fator de proteção para morbidade obstétrica por pré-eclampsia: Estudo de caso-controle numa maternidade pública do Rio de Janeiro *
    Katia Silveira Da Silva
    Instituto de Medicina Social da UERJ
    Brasil

  4. A cohort study of underground coal miners exposed to radon and radon decay products
    Lene Holanda Sadler Veiga
    National School of Public Health -Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
    Brasil

  5. Determinación de los patrones espaciales de los efectos cardiovasculares y respiratorios de la contaminación atmosférica en Santiago de Chile *
    Franz Muñoz Ibañez
    Fundación Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ
    Brasil

  6. Factores de riesgo para muerte fetal en la ciudad de Montevideo, Uruguay: estudio de casos y controles de base poblacional *
    Alicia Matijasevich Manitto
    Universidad Federal de Pelotas:
    Programa de Post-graduación en Epidemiología. Facultad de Medicina.
    Brasil

  7. Prevalencia y polimorfismos genéticos asociados con la dislipidemia e inflamación subclínica en pacientes con Síndrome Metabólico en Maracaibo, Venezuela *
    Hermes J. Flórez Departamento de Epidemiología y Salud Pública: Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Miami
    Estados Unidos

We wish to thank all the researchers who participated in the competition and to extend our congratulations to the winners.

Alberto Pellegrini
Chief, Research Promotion and Development Unit
Secretary, Internal Advisory Committee on Health Research (IACHR)

(*) Final approval for projects is contingent upon review and approval by the PAHO Ethical Review Committee.