Bonjour à tous,

Please share this information with your GRADUATE and UNDERGRADUATE 
students.  I would very much like to increase the minority enrollment in 
this amazing summer experience.  The numbers of minority students continues 
to be very low and I continue to try to do outreach to increase the number 
of students of color who take advantage of this opportunity.

Held each summer since 2001, graduate and undergraduate students in this 
program from throughout the United States are part of a living learning 
community that cares passionately about international health.  Each year 
students participate in this selective program that only accepts 18 
students.  One highlight from the 2007 program is that students purchased a 
Blue Trunk Library and donated it to a district health center in the Congo 
Brazzaville in Africa.  The World Health Organization (WHO) that students 
visit during the summer sponsors these trunks.  A 2006 alumna of the 
program completed a three-month internship at the International Union for 
Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) in Paris, France, after her summer 
in the program.   Students from seven universities were accepted into the 
program that concluded this past summer and this made for a rich learning 
experience for the students and the professor.

In 2008, the program will be held May 29 – July 14.  One highlight of the 
program each summer is the two weeks of seminars in Paris and Geneva at 
organizations such as:  The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and 
Malaria, Doctors without Borders, the Joint United Nations Program on 
HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), The United Nations Headquarters (UN), and others.

Thank you to those colleagues who share this information with your 
students.  For more information contact me at [log in to unmask] or visit 
our website at www.units.muohio.edu/eap/departments/phe/phe.htm.

Merci beaucoup,
Reginald

P.S.  Please remind your graduate students who have assistantships that the 
tuition is paid for if they are accepted into the program and meet certain 
requirement.


Professor of Health Education
Executive Editor, Journal of American College Health
Director, Study Abroad Program in International Health
<www.units.muohio.edu/eap/departments/phe/studyabroad.htm>
107A Phillips Hall, Department of Kinesiology and Health (KNH)
Miami University, Oxford, OH  45056
513-529-3226 (office), 513-529-5006 (fax)