From: Mary Carol
Jennings [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 4:17
PM
To: Race, Ethnicity and Culture in
Health
Subject: [rec_in_health] AMSA
seeks AIDS Advocacy Organizer for summer session
-- Call for Applicants
for AMSA AIDS Advocacy Organizer, summer position --
You've heard the stories from the 08 bird-dogging trail. You've set up your
email so you get google alerts for new global health developments. You've been
inspired to tears (or fainting) over Dr. Paul Farmer's speeches at AMSA
conventions.
Perhaps you're feeling called by these experiences to practice medicine in the
global health field.
And you want to do something now
- before you're a doctor - to benefit the millions of patients worldwide who
don't have access to basic health and health care.
AMSA is recruiting for an AIDS Advocacy Organizer, a new volunteer
position that our Board has decided is so important that it should be funded
with a travel and organizing budget. Three positions will be available
throughout the coming year: Summer, Fall and Spring.
The person selected will be offered free housing at the AMSA house in Reston,
and will work at the AMSA office with AMSA's national issue-based fellows and
with AMSA global health partners in DC.
Highly qualified applicants should have a good basis of knowledge about US
global health initiatives and the impact of global poverty and disease on our
world's health care system.
The specific tasks that AMSA's membership wants this Organizer to accomplish
will revolve around a Government Accountability Campaign, in relation to the
implementation of the new programs and laws passed by the US Global AIDS
Initiative (PEPFAR) last summer.
Congress and the last President used PEPFAR to set a number of deadlines for US
government bodies to create programs, to issue reports, and to meet certain
global health criteria. But things are really busy in DC these days, and we
need to create strong public oversight and pressure from the community to make
sure we are meeting these legal commitments to patients around the world.
AMSA's AIDS Advocacy Organizer will work closely with our AIDS Advocacy Network
Steering Committee to research the timelines and deadlines passed into law by
PEPFAR; will correlate these into a work plan that incorporates other projects
of the Global Fund and other USAID projects; and will work with the global
health community as well as with staffers in key Congressional Committees to
create the public oversight we need to keep the implementation of these
programs a priority for our elected officials and government bodies.
The Organizer will also have the opportunity to take on domestic HIV/AIDS
legislative work in the form of building input into the Ryan White program
reauthorization on the Congressional docket for this summer.
Contact Mary Carol Jennings, immediate past Jack Rutledge Legislative Director
for AMSA and member of the AIDS Advocacy Network Steering Committee, to apply.
Application will include:
1. writing sample
2. cover letter describing your global health experience and interests
3. resume/CV (please note that standardized test scores and grades are not
pertinent to this position)
In solidarity,
Mary Carol, for AMSA's AAN SC
--
Mary Carol Jennings
864.992.3391
Class of 2010
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
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