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I. 2 Ghana International Residency Program



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I. 2 Ghana



International Residency Program


 

Location: Accra

 

Principal contact at GW: 


Jennifer Spencer

Coelho Professorial Fellow, Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs, and Director, GW Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)

Tel.:  202-994-9858 
E-mail:  jspencer@gwu.edu
Brief description of program:  All first-year Global M.B.A. students participate in one of several international consultancy projects. Students take a three-course sequence during the second half of the spring semester, which is designed to assist them in preparing and implementing their projects, so that by the end of the year, they will gain experience working on a professional consultancy project abroad.
In spring 2011 Dr. Spencer, whose research focuses on multinational enterprises’ investments in developing countries, firms’ global technology strategies, and knowledge spillovers between firms, is working with students on a project with the Ghana Export Promotion Council and the Ghana Investment Promotion Council to develop export strategies for Ghanaian firms.  During the May residency period in Ghana, in addition to spending time with clients, students will visit a range of foreign and local companies that have developed successful, profitable strategies to serve customers at the base of the economic pyramid.

*Business/Management

*Study abroad/student exchange

*International business



I. 3 South Africa



Faculty-led Short-term Study Abroad Program: Impacts of the 2010 World Cup




Location: Various locations in South Africa
Principal contact at GW:

Lisa Delpy Neirotti

Associate Professor of Tourism and Sport Management

Tel.: 202-994-6623

E-mail: delpy@gwu.edu
Brief description of program: Program enabled graduate students to learn about the organizational infrastructure, management, integrated marketing, and socio-economic and environmental impact of the Summer 2010 World Cup.  Students worked directly with a World Cup corporate sponsor (e.g., Visa, Coca Cola, Sony), South Africa tourism, FIFA, and other clients involved with World Cup to analyze initiatives, measure success, and develop recommendations; interviewed selected clients, FIFA and governmental officials, and corporate sponsors on-site; and conducted on-site market research. Fifteen students enrolled. (See also Office of International Programs.)

*Business/Management

*Study abroad/student exchange

*International business 



I. 4 Regional




African Diaspora Marketplace Longitudinal Study



Principal contact at GW:

Liesl Riddle

Associate Professor, International Business and International Affairs

and Co-Director, GW Diaspora Program

Tel.: 202-994-1217

E-mail: lriddle@gwu.edu




  • Brief description of work: In 2010, Riddle, a research fellow at GW’s Center for International Business Education and Research (GW-CIBER), conducted a survey of participants in the African Diaspora Marketplace (ADM), an entrepreneurial business program supported jointly by USAID and Western Union. ADM seeks to boost economic opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa through sustainable start-up and established enterprises by U.S.-based African diaspora. More than 700 participants from 19 countries submitted business proposals for grants to match their own funds to support the execution of their business plans.  Fourteen businesses in seven Sub-Saharan African countries were awarded matching grants of up to $100,000. Riddle’s survey found that diaspora investment motivation is driven by a variety of factors, including expectations of financial, emotional, social-status and political gains, as well as family concerns.  See here for full report: http://business.gwu.edu/CIBER/research/1011.htm

(Posted by GWSB, 11/12/10 | Filed under: GWSB News).

*Business/Management

*Research & collaboration

*International business


J. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES

J. 1 Ethiopia



Department of Neurology, SMHS--Office of Medical Faculty Associates/St. Gabriel General Hospital



Location: Addis Ababa
Principal contact at GW:

Donald Shields, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery

Tel.: 202-741-2754


Brief description of partnership: Project involves neurosurgery in Ethiopia. Dr. Shields traveled to Ethiopia in January 2011 and performed several spinal surgeries at St. Gabriel General Hospital.

*Health Sciences

*Research & collaboration

*Global health



J. 2 South Africa



Health Sciences Programs and Pathology, SMHS/The South African Infectious Disease Clinical Research Training Program, University of Cape Town (UCT), Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation; Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Health Sciences



Location: Cape Town
Type of agreement: MOU; subcontract to UCT for a NIH/Fogarty grant.
Principal contacts at GW:

Sylvia Silver, D.A.

Associate Dean for Health Sciences and Professor of Pathology

Tel.: 202-994-2945

Fax.: 202-994-5056

E-mail: ssilver@gwu.edu

  

Principal contact in South Africa:

Gregory Hussey, Professor and

Deputy Dean for Research

Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town

Tel.: 27-21-689-6118

E-mail: Gregory.Hussey@uct.ac.za


Brief description of partnership: Collaborated with UCT on development of Professional Development Model for building capacity in clinical research. The model was utilized by Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation (funded by the Gates Foundation at $220 million to develop a new vaccine for TB) at their clinical sites in the Western Cape, India, Kenya, Cambodia and Mozambique. GW led collaboration with UCT and Stellenbosch on successful funding by the NIH/Fogarty – The South African Global Infectious Disease Clinical Research Training Program, a five-year grant that is now concluded (G. Hussey, PI). Collaborations with Stellenbosch University brought about a clinical trial in South Africa with Prof. Jean Nachega from Stellenbosch and Dr. Gary Simon funded by the EDCTP; and two applications for an AIDS International Research Training Program with Stellenbosch and UCT (high impact scores but not funded). GW will be reapplying (S. Silver, PI). Silver traveled to South Africa in January 2011 to do work on the NIH/Fogarty project with UCT.


  • Sources of funding: NIH/Fogarty funding for five years, now concluded; EDCTP funding of clinical trial (with Stellenbosch).

*Health Sciences

*Science & Technology

*Research & collaboration

*Global health





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