Senior Thesis Research
Every GHP student completes a senior thesis in her/his home department that relates to global health and/or health policy. The Global Health and Health Policy Senior Thesis Prize is awarded in recognition of the most outstanding thesis written by a student earning a certificate in Global Health and Health Policy.
GHP Senior Thesis Prize
2011 Senior Thesis Prize Co-Recipients
The 2011 Global Health and Health Policy Senior Thesis Prize co-recipients are Alana D'Alfonso (Psychology) and Alyse Wheelock (Anthropology).
D’Alfonso's thesis is entitled Seeing the Meaning: Higher-Order Neuroplastic Changes in the Time Scale of Processing within Early Visual Areas in the Congenitally Blind. Download the full thesis (~4MB).
Wheelock's thesis is entitled Maps of Rural Health: An Ethnography of Access to Care in Peru. Download the full thesis (~147MB).
The following theses received honorable mention:
- Joshua Oppenheimer (Woodrow Wilson School): A Mexican Model for Insuring The Poor?
- Alex Rosen (Economics): Hospital Ownership: An Empirical Study of Its Effect on the Quality and Cost of Medical Care in the United States
- Sarimer Sanchez (History): Medicalizing Birth Control: The enovid Clinical Trials in Puerto Rico (1956-1960)
- John Torrey (Religion): Power Consecrated an Ethnographic Critique of Donor Engagement with Churches and Mosques on Aids in Tanzania
For a full listing of the GHP class of 2011 senior thesis titles and abstracts, click here.
2010 GHP Senior Thesis Prize co-Recipients
The 2010 Global Health and Health Policy Senior Thesis Prize co-recipients are Alex Gertner (Anthropology) and Alexa Glencer (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology).
Gertner's thesis is entitled Pharmaceutical Care, Public Experiments, and Patient Knowledge in the Brazilian Public Healthcare System. Download the full thesis (~573KB).
Glencer's thesis is entitled Health Impact Assessment in Alaska: General Guidance, Project Application, and Sustainable Mitigation. Download the full thesis (~59MB).
For a full listing of the GHP class of 2010 senior thesis titles and abstracts, click here.