(Community members from the Island Food Community of Pohnpei take a break from a community health meeting led by Alyssa Bittenbender, far left. Alyssa Bittenbender is a recipient of KMF’s 2009 Katie Evans Memorial Scholarship.)
Purpose
Each Katie Evans Memorial Scholarship supports outstanding work in international public health by providing a one-time scholarship of up to $3,000 towards a fieldwork project proposed by a qualified graduate student.
Timeline
November 10, 2009: Application is available online.
February 15, 2010: Deadline to submit application online.
March 1, 2010: Recipients notified directly by telephone and email.
March 15, 2010: Recipients, Finalists and Semi-Finalists named on KMF website.
Process
To apply for a 2010 Katie Evans Memorial Scholarship, please complete in full the embedded application document below, and upload the required documents.
Incomplete and late applications will not be considered.
It is the responsibility of the applicant to submit a complete application on time.
All applications must be submitted online. There is no “hard copy” application option for the 2010 Katie Evans Memorial Scholarship.
The application below requires applicants to submit three documents in Adobe Portable Document (PDF) format only, so applicants are encouraged to check in advance that they have the capability to convert files to the, or work in, the PDF format. You can learn more about the PDF format by clicking here.
Materials
In the application below, applicants must complete all of the following:
Personal and Educational Information, typed directly into the form.
Upload, where indicated, a Statement Of Interest, “describing your interest in international public health, the proposed project, and how you intend to carryout that experience.” The statement must be formatted only in PDF format.
Upload, where indicated, a completed copy of the KMF Budget Sheetin PDF format only.
Upload, where indicated, a copy of your personal resume in PDF format only.
Questions
See the application document for further details, requirements, and information regarding the 2010 Katie Evans Memorial Scholarships. Questions and comments may be addressed to us by email.
The Katie Memorial Foundation (KMF) is pleased to announce that the recipients of The 2009 Katie Evans Memorial Scholarship are Alyssa Bittenbender, candidate for the Master’s of Public Health degree (MPH) in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona, and Kirsten Unfried, candidate for the Master’s of Health Science degree (MHS) in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University.
Alyssa Bittenbender will spend this summer evaluating a nutrition intervention in Pohnpei, FSM. Working with a local NGO, the Island Food Community of Pohnpei (IFCP), Alyssa will evaluate the use of indigenous foods as an alternative to energy-dense, nutrient-deficient, imported food. She will also hold community meetings, train and retrain IFCP workers, administer surveys, and conduct a literature review about nutrition in Micronesia. As she stated in her project proposal, “Understanding the lasting effectiveness of an intervention is imperative as much time, money, and energy is put into developing it. The results of [this project] will inform efforts both in FSM and internationally.” Alyssa is a former Peace Corps Zambia volunteer.
(KMF 2009 Katie Evans Memorial Scholarship recipient Kirsten Unfried poses with staff at the Global Access Health Program in Mae Sot, Thailand.)
Kirsten Unfried will spend this summer and fall in Mae Sot, Thailand, working with the Global Health Access Program to improve the well-being of internally displaced Burmese communities through the provision of health and public health services, capacity building and resource enhancement. Kirsten will conduct cross-border reproductive health care programs on the Thai, Chinese, and Indian borders with Burma. She will also conduct trainings, work with partner organizations, and generally help to coordinate and standardize local health programs, with a special emphasis on issues related to child and maternal health. Formerly a Peace Corps The Gambia volunteer, Kirsten is a candidate for the Master’s of Health Science degree (MHS) in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University.
KMF has also identified five finalists and twenty-seven semi-finalists for the 2009 Katie Evans Memorial Scholarship. They are listed below.
In only our second year offering this scholarship, KMF received an overwhelming national response to the scholarship. More than 250 applications were submitted, from students, doctors, anthropologists, and epidemiologists studying at 78 national colleges and universities. During the application period, the application materials were downloaded more than 1,000 times from our website, where we received between 200-900 visits on a daily basis.
Finalists (in alphabetical order) Alison Chopel (School of Public Health, The University of California, Berkeley) Victoria Fort (Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University) Michaela Kerrissey (Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University) Sumit Shah (Stanford University School of Medicine & Harvard University School of Public Health) Karthik Srinivasan (School of Public Health, University of Minnesota)
Semi-Finalists (in alphabetical order)
Meghan Althoff (School of Public Health, The University of California, Berkeley)
Sofia Arriola (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University)
Fayola Autry (School of Public Health, The University of California, Berkeley)
Casey Branchini (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University)
Eden Brand (Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University)
Meg Bruening (School of Public Health, University of Minnesota)
Leah Burn(Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University)
Tegan Callahan (School of Public Health, University of Washington
David Citrin (College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington)
Kelli Clifton (College of Public Health, The Ohio State University)
Amy Anne Conroy (Health and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Colorado, Denver)
Daragh Gibson (Department of Public Health, University of South Florida)
Husain Gulamhusein (Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University)
Mary Hardy (School of Public Health, The University of California, Berkeley)
James Hicks (School of Acupuncture, Northwestern Health Sciences University)
Allison Ingalls (Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University)
Jenna Klink (School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University)
Anna Maria Barry Jester (Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University)
Rachel Kauffman, (Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University)
Jeffrey McCullough (School of Public Health, University of Minnesota)
Michael Melchior (Stempel School of Public Health, Florida International University)
Oriana Nolan (School of Public Health, The University of California, Berkeley)
Selina Osei (School of Public Health, SUNY Albany)
Lauren Pring (Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona)
Ashley Ryckman (School of Public Health, Tufts University)
Cherrie Smith (Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver)
Stephen Sullivan (Department of Plastic Surgery, Children’s Hospital Boston)
Purpose
The Katie Evans Memorial Scholarship was established to support outstanding work in international public health by providing a one-time scholarship of up to $3,000 towards a fieldwork project proposed by a qualified graduate student.
The Katie Memorial Foundation (KMF) is pleased to announce that the recipient of The 2008 Katie Evans Memorial Scholarship is Nicole Kellier, Ph.D candidate in Epidemiology at the Robert Stempel School of Public Health at Florida International University (SSPH). On March 7, 2008, Nicole was publicly recognized by KMF and FIU as the scholarship recipient at a March 7th FIU alumni event in Miami, FL.
(Nicole Kellier (right, in blue scrubs) with South Florida care providers participating in the 2008 Jamaica Medical Mission Trip. Nicole is the recipient of the KMF 2008 Katie Evans Memorial Scholarship.)
From June through August of 2008, Nicole supervised a group of public health students in Jamaica, as part of The 2008 Jamaica Medical Mission Trip, an annual medical mission trip to provide free health service to those in need who cannot afford to pay for care. Additionally, the group studied the incidence of prostate cancer in Jamaica, which is the highest in the world, as well as two other chronic diseases, diabetes and hypertension, which contribute heavily to the health burden among Jamaicans.
(The 2008 Katie Evans Memorial Scholarship partially funded this cancer-screening activity in a low-income community in Jamaica.)
Of her experience, Nicole told KMF:
The 2008 Katie Evans Memorial Scholarship supplemented the cost of my group’s travel to Jamaica, the printing of our education materials, and our delivery of cancer-screening activities. My group implemented an educational program that addresses lifestyle changes to promote better health. We put together a diet and exercise intervention for underserved communities.
(Nicole Kellier, recipient of the 2008 Katie Evans Memorial Scholarship, presents a nutritional poster designed and distributed to low-income communities in Jamaica. The poster’s production and distribution was funded by the scholarship.)
While carrying out this intervention we made a point of assessing current dietary intake, current physical activity levels, and barriers to adopting recommended activities. The majority of the population served included low income communities with limited resources. Rather than recommend that our clients obtain foods that they cannot afford, we discussed ways of modifying or being creative with foods they normally eat, while incorporating exercise into their daily routine. We also recommended initiation of leisure physical activity for those who were not physically active and also discussed ways to incorporate ‘exercise’ into their daily activities. Finally, we scheduled the Jamaican Cancer Society (JCS) to come to one of our sites and provide free cancer screening and cancer-related educational activities.
(Nicole Kellier, second from right, with FIU participants and professors during the 2008 Jamaica Medical Mission Trip.)
Nicole Kellier currently works as a teaching assistant in the epidemiology and biostatistics department of SSPH. Previously, she has worked as a nursing administrator, pediatric oncology research coordinator, cancer epidemiology associate, and infectious diseases research assistant. Since 2005, she has served as the research coordinator for the Annual Jamaica Medical Mission. She is a volunteer for the American Diabetes Association, American Cancer Society, and Southeast Florida Cancer Control Collaborative. Nicole received her master’s degree in public health (epidemiology) from George Washington University in 2003.
The Katie Memorial Foundation is a 501( c )(3) federally tax-exempt charitable nonprofit organization. The KMF taypayer identification number is 74-3250765.
