THE GOAL OF THIS OFFER
Use ethical and scientifically sound research to help Jamaica and CARICOM meet their obligations to become Vision 2020 compliant (making quality Eye Health Services available to all) and consistent with the several Resolutions of the World Health Assembly, to advance Vision 2020: The Right to Sight, (www.vision2020.org) by reducing the prevalence of blindness and visual impairment among ‘at risk’ segments of the population.
AIM OF THIS OFFER
The establishment of a long-term partnership with The Department of Psychiatry and Community Health, to provide opportunities for Post-Graduate Students of Public Health to undertake rigorous and scientifically sound graduate studies in all or any of the five (5) main conditions which cause blindness in the Caribbean: or the effects of blindness on persons whose sight cannot be restored.
MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THIS OFFER
Make available up to one hundred thousand Jamaican Dollars ($100,000) per Study for up to two (2) limited Research Grants in each Academic Year, plus one return (economy class) air ticket to one of the successful MPH Students, (to undertake training and or data collection activities) in the event a Study is being undertaken in the home-country of a Caribbean student who is not a resident of Jamaica.
The final amount of each Grant shall be based on a Research Budget prepared by the Student-Applicant, commented on by her/his Supervisor and recommended by the Coordinator of the MPH Programme, using an application format provided by the Caribbean Council for the Blind.
Make the Annual Research Grants to students recommended to CCB-Eye Care Caribbean, by the management of the Master of Public Health Programme at the UWI Mona Campus, Jamaica; providing the research question seeks to create or recover knowledge relevant to the diagnosis, treatment or management of all or any of the following conditions.
*Refractive Errors and/or Low Vision in humans of all age-groups;
*Cataract
*Glaucoma
*Diabetic Retinopathy
*Conditions which cause blindness or visual impairment in children;
*Impact of incurable blindness on: children, adolescents, young adults, middle adulthood and in old age.
The first two (2) Research Grants to be awarded in the Academic Year 2011-2012.
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