New York University’s Office of the Senior Vice President for Health has announced the recipients of the 2009-1010 Global Public Health Research Challenge Grants, which support faculty-initiated public health research on a global scale.

The five proposals, selected by a faculty review committee through a competitive process, include:

- The link between periodontal disease and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in Thailand (Ananda P. Dasanayake, College of Dentistry);
- Educational disruption as a risk factor for infectious disease among young refugees from Zimbabwe (Sally Guttmacher, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development);
- The effect of antiretroviral therapy on malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa (Photini Sinnis, School of Medicine);
- Establishing a comprehensive health system performance monitoring system in Ghana (Karen A. Grepin, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service);
- Effectiveness of a train-the-trainer program for increasing poisoning prevention awareness in Ghana (Lewis Goldfrank, School of Medicine).

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