Results of Competition:

(October 5,  2004)

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:

1. Câncer de Cabecâ e Pescoço: Tendências de incidência, mortalidade e sobrevida nos municípios de São Paulo e Goiâia.
   Alexandre Tadeu Patronieri
   Facultad de Salud Pública, Universidad de São Paulo (FSP-USP)
   Brasil

   
   

2. Tendencia en la incidencia y la mortalidad por cáncer de próstata en Cali.
   Luz Elena García
   Universidad del Valle
   Cali, Colombia

3. Exposure to Violent Crime, Neighborhood Disorder, Social Capital and Mental Health: An exploratory Study of a Poor Jamaican Community (August Town, - Hermitage”

(*)

 Leslie Kelly
London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine
London, England




4. “Identidad masculina de adolescentes varones y hombres jóvenes de la zona metropolitana de Guadalajara como factor de riesgo para la salud”(*)


Carlos Eduardo Martínez
Centro de Educación y Atención en la Salud y la Sexualidad
Guadalajara, México


5. The Economic Impact of Adverse Health on households in Trinidad and Tobago: An Investigation into the Health-Poverty Nexus.

Andrea Camille Yearwood
The University of the West Indies
St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago


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

 

Rebecca de los Ríos


Chief, a.i.,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.(PAHOERC).