Results of Competition:
Graduate Thesis Grants in Public Health,
Second Round 2003
(15 October 2003)
The Research Promotion and Development Unit of the Pan American Health Organization takes pleasure in announcing the results of the competition for Graduate Thesis Grants in Public Health.
Following are the selected projects:
- Community Health Workers among indigenous people in Amazonas, Venezuela: Their role in a shifting context (*)
Gregorio Leopoldo Sánchez Salamé
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Venezuela
- Epidemiología de la colonización intestinal con enterococo resistente a vancomicina en pacientes de alto riesgo en el Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins,Lima, Perú (*)
Wilfredo Hernán Flores Paredes
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Perú
- Caracterización virológica y molecular de los alphavirus americanos
Gladys Margarita Medina Gutiérrez
Centro de Estudios Avanzados, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
Venezuela
- Variabilidad genética y morfológica entre dos poblaciones de Triatoma sordida
vector secundario de la Enfermedad de Chagas en el Paraguay
Nisa Elizabeth González Brítez
Universidad Central de Venezuela
Venezuela
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)
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Final approval for projects is contingent upon review and approval by the PAHO Ethical Review Committee.(PAHOERC).
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