-- 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

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Mary Carol Jennings
864.992.3391
Class of 2010
University of South Carolina School of Medicine

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