Several Positions Available, WHO-sponsored systemic review of hygiene and hand washing
Category : Student Opportunities
Who: PhD students (rotation for Spring ‘23), MPH students (REAL or non-REAL paid positions). Students with experience conducting reviews, with behavioral science background, laboratory science, policy experience, WASH background encouraged to apply. (Several positions available)
What: Support for WHO-sponsored systematic reviews of hygiene and handwashing
When: Please apply by Dec 7th
How: email CV and short paragraph highlight key experience and interests to Bethany Caruso (bcaruso [at] emory [dot] edu) with the subject line: Student Support: WHO Systematic Review
Investigators: Bethany Caruso (HDGH, MPI), Marlene Wolfe (GDEH-MPI), Matthew Freeman (GDEH)
Details: Emory investigators have been engaged by the WHO to conduct a series of systematic reviews on effective hand hygiene in community settings. These reviews – to be completed in 2023 – will be used to support the forthcoming global guidelines (like the guideline developed for sanitation, found here). The purpose of the reviews is to synthesize and evaluate evidence related to the following questions:
- What constitutes effective hand hygiene;
- What are the minimum requirements for its practice in community settings;
- What behaviour change approaches are conducive to the sustained adoption of effective hand hygiene practice in community settings;
- What government measures can support sustained practice of effective hand hygiene in community settings.
Students will work on a team in Spring 2023 to support search, data retrieval, data abstraction, report generation, and peer-review manuscript preparation. Students who contribute sufficiently will be authors on resulting manuscripts. For MPH students, there is an opportunity for some of the positions to extend to summer 2023 and could be used for APE.
