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| Project Leader: | Francisco A. “Alex” Montiel Ishino fami@tamu.edu Health & Kinesiology |
| Faculty Mentor: | Tamika Gilreath, Ph.D. |
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Meeting Times:
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W 2:00-4:00PM |
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Team Size:
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4 (Team Full) |
| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Students will be able to learn and hone the skills necessary to become successful graduate students in health and social science related fields. Prospective students will work with national and international level data as well as take part in study designs for global public health and health education projects. Opportunities will include earning co-authorship for publications, developing abstracts for and possibly attending professional research conferences, letters of recommendation, or becoming a member of our research group with prospect of conducting fieldwork and data collection in the US and abroad.
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Team Needs:
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Skills and familiarity preferred with: critical reading and thinking, following directions and completing tasks independently, academic/professional writing, qualitative and quantitative methods and analysis, detailed note taking, conducting literature searchers, reading and synthesizing information from the peer-reviewed literature, organizing and storing peer-reviewed literature in reference software (e.g., EndNote, Zotero, ReadCube, etc.), data entry and management and related software (e.g., Excel, SPSS, etc.), statistical software packages (e.g., SPSS, SAS, STATA, MiniTab, etc.), and most important will be the desire to learn and apply what is learned from this experience to the student’s future endeavors.
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Description:
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The larger project consists of examining behavioral and environmental factors that increase the risk of negative health outcomes in young children and youths. The grad-student led project is a comparative study that will use data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Tanzania and Kenya to analyze risk factors for young (under-5-years-of-age) child outcomes. The DHS data and subsequent analyses are part of an ongoing collaboration with the East African Community – Tropical Pesticide Research Institute and the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania.
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