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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Julia Reynolds-Cuéllar <<a href="mailto:jreyn@mit.edu">jreyn@mit.edu</a>><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">November 20, 2016 at 3:00:16 PM EST<br>
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<div><b>Fully-Funded Health-Focused Research Internships in South Africa<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
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<div>Become a distinguished Ragon/Imes Fellow via MIT-South Africa this summer and take part in a fully funded internship exploring exciting, ground-breaking and critical health research in South Africa in top labs. All majors and years welcome to apply. </div>
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<div>Visit:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://applymisti.mit.edu/">applymisti.mit.edu</a>, to set up a meeting to discuss the opportunity. </div>
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<div>Topics from 2016 Interns included:</div>
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<li>Worked in biobank, extracting DNA from samples throughout South Africa (both rural and urban populations) </li><li>performing statistical analysis on HIV status and BMI on eating attitudes<br>
</li><li>Interviewing South African who attend local community clinics on body image concerns among post-adolescent (ages 18-23) women in rural and urban settings</li></ul>
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<div>Julia Reynolds-Cuéllar</div>
<div>Managing Director, <a href="http://misti.mit.edu/mit-africa-initiative">MIT-AFRICA</a> </div>
<div>MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI)</div>
<div>1 Amherst St E40 415</div>
<div>617.324.4285</div>
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