Research

EPIIC also provides unusual opportunities for students to conduct research related to its annual theme, both at home and abroad. Students take advantage of connections forged during the colloquium and symposium to pursue their research objectives and to create meaningful long term projects. Last year students traveled to Armenia, Egypt, Oman and Uganda. More than 1,100 students have traveled to more than 90 countries since 1986.

Potential research topics can include: the origin and prevention of pandemics, links between brain trauma and Alzheimers, the relationship between poverty and disease, access to medicines for neglected populations, the links between global water sanitation and disease, the link between health and the environment, HIV/AIDS, women’s and maternal health issues, climate change and global malaria, rebuilding health systems in fragile states, the controversy over publishing how H5N1 flu could be made more lethal, veterans and PTSD, intellectual property rights and monopolies in the pharmaceutical industry, organ trafficking, trauma and resilience in child soldiers, the dilemma of arsenic in Bangladesh, the role of NGOs in global health governance, the public health effects of civil conflict, war and the future of humanitarian intervention, and the efficacy of the Biological Weapons Convention.

You will also have the opportunity to learn such tools as GIS, GPS, and web-based mapping platforms, and to use geospatial analysis tools.

International Students and EPIIC

There is also the opportunity to develop research ideas together with international students from the Institute’s TILIP (Tufts Initiative for Leadership and International Perspective) program. Last year, EPIIC brought more than 50 students from China, Israel, Iraq, Russia, Rwanda, Singapore, and South Korea to participate in its symposium.