October, 2009

This year, the Department of Global Health hopes to offer our students more structured thesis opportunities through our partners and friends in the practice community.  You need not feel obligated to provide students funding to do these projects, although obviously they would much appreciate it--at least, perhaps, travel expenses. The primary commitment from you and your organization is the time required to help the student formulate the research question, get access to the population and data required to answer it, and make sense of what they find at the end.  Two UW faculty members will serve on each student's thesis committee, too (and if you are a faculty member, you could be one of these; if you would LIKE to be a courtesy faculty member, this is your chance!)

Think of this as an opportunity to get a research project done that you've been meaning to get to for a while.  And, preferably, a publication too! 

 Amy Hagopian, PhD, 206-616-4989 or 543-8382, hagopian@u.washington.edu

Instructions: Please provide incoming first year Global Health MPH students with a brief description of your proposed thesis topic idea.  Here are some topics you might address (but aren't required to) toâ€"origins of the project, location, population, methods, timeline, funding opportunities, human subjects approval status, and whether you believe this is publishable.