[bioundgrd] FW: Please share!

[Joshua Stone]

From: Julia Reynolds-Cuéllar <jreyn at mit.edu>
Date: Sunday, November 20, 2016 at 3:04 PM
To: bexec <bexec at mit.edu>
Subject: Please share!

Dear BUSA:

Would you please share the below opportunity with your students?
Thank you!
Julia

Fully-Funded Health-Focused Research Internships in South Africa
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.

Visit: applymisti.mit.edu<http://applymisti.mit.edu>, to set up a meeting to discuss the opportunity.

Topics from 2016 Interns included:

  *   Worked in biobank, extracting DNA from samples throughout South Africa (both rural and urban populations)
  *   performing statistical analysis on HIV status and BMI on eating attitudes
  *   Interviewing South African who attend local community clinics on body image concerns among post-adolescent (ages 18-23) women in rural and urban settings

Julia Reynolds-Cuéllar
Managing Director, MIT-AFRICA<http://misti.mit.edu/mit-africa-initiative>
MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI)
1 Amherst St E40 415
617.324.4285
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