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Titled Doctoral Initiative on Minority Attrition and Completion (DIMAC) and released on 14 April, the 72-page document is crammed with interesting and revealing facts about how black/African-American students and Hispanic/Latino students fare in doctoral programs in engineering, life sciences (including health sciences), physical and mathematical sciences, and social and behavioral sciences.
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Whereas in Germany, even at the undergrad level, your have to develop your own initiative and doctoral candidates are seen much more as researchers than students.
This greatly reduces the number of staff with doctoral degrees, weakens research initiatives, and interferes with implementation of university and national policies, thus further weakening the link between university-level training by SPHs and global public health objectives.
She had originally worked with our Health Access Initiative during her doctoral studies, and we were so pleased that she had recently rejoined us as a senior vaccines researcher based in Tanzania.
While observations spoke for the transference of competences (e.g. the student-led initiative developing a doctoral students' statement on integrity) further discussion might have been beneficial in helping participants to conceptualise the "tools" that they were already applying.
The main supervisors considered that the doctoral students from SSA lacked initiative at times.
To date, GTO has been customised for several health contexts, including clinical settings (eg, behavioural health services, training for clinical psychology doctoral students) and public health initiatives (eg, home visiting programmes, substance abuse prevention).
Funded by Brazil's ministry of culture and the Canadian government, Project Baquaqua is the initiative of Bruno Verás, a doctoral candidate at York University, Canada, and a former history teacher from the north-eastern state of Pernambuco.
The students' initiative in devising a doctoral student statement suggests that a transfer took place from the course context to the students' real institutional contexts.
The role-play triggered follow-up action: the summer school participants generated a fully student-led initiative on developing a doctoral students' statement on integrity, which was circulated among key stakeholders in the LERU community approximately 2 months after the summer school.
The Training and Education to Advance Minority Scholars in Science (TEAM-Science) program is one such IMSD-funded initiative targeting URM BBS doctoral students at the University of Wisconsin Madison (UW).
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