Funded Research
University of Ghana (RIPS) Visiting Scholar Training Program at Penn State University
Source: William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Active: 11/18/2007 - 7/15/2010
Investigator(s):
Francis Dodoo
Gordon F. De Jong
Nancy Landale
Betty Akumatey (University of Ghana)
This grant will support a training partnership between the University of Ghana's Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS) and The Pennsylvania State University's Population Research Institute (PRI), wherein students from RIPS will spend the second year of their three-year PhD program in a sandwich year at PRI. This sandwich training year will offer a value-added opportunity for RIPS students to gain exposure in the international population health arena while still receiving their terminal degrees on the continent. RIPS students will proceed to PRI to shore up their professional development and gain breadth and depth in their training by taking methodological, theoretical, and other specialty courses unavailable at UG; access the excellent library resources, top-notch colloquia and seminars, and superior facilities for population research; avail themselves of and gain mentored experiences with PRI's world-class faculty. Beyond building their scholarly and professional development the students will be encouraged to nurture potential collaborative opportunities in their encounters with faculty mentors and advanced (US) graduate student peers as these represent potential collaborative partnerships. RIPS students will also avail themselves of the numerous training sessions on grantsmanship, the ethical conduct of research, etc.; attend two professional conferences; and visit a foundation (Hewlett) and the NIH. Students will return to RIPS for the final year of their PhD and receive their degrees from UG, after which they will take on positions at RIPS.
