Chile: Santiago, Society and Health Research Center (CISS) - Universidad Mayor

The overarching mission of the Society and Health Research Center (CISS) is to advance well-being at the individual, social, and institutional levels in a context of global demographic, epidemiological, technological, and environmental change. To pursue this mission, the goals of the center are to conduct world-class interdisciplinary research with real-world implications, train new researchers, and disseminate evidence to broad audiences. Our research strengths are grouped into three clusters: (1) social and life-course determinants of health and aging, (2) social relationships and cohesion, (3) and institutions and regulation from a cross-national and comparative perspective. To study these issues, we use mixed methods and embrace the new opportunities arising with an era of big “cells to society” data.

This is a Mailman School of Public Health (MSPH) site. Global Pop works in coordination with the MSPH Office of Field to offer these opportunities.

Columbia University Faculty Liaison: Carly Hutchinson, PhD, MA
Site Mentors: Esteban Calvo, PhD, MPH; Estela Blanco, PhD, MPH, MA; José Miguel Cabezas, PhD; Álvaro Castillo Carniglia, PhD, MSc; Antonia Díaz-Valdés Iriarte, PhD, MSW; Nicolás Montalva, PhD; Teresita Rocha-Jiménez, PhD, MA; Diego Palacios, PhD; Sergio Peña-Neira, PhD

Research opportunities available at this site:
Summer Research Projects, Scholarly Project, and Research Year

Thematic Research Areas at this site:
Health Systems and Health Governance, Social Determinants of Health, Epidemiology, Ageing, Education, Migrant health, Mental Health, and Cross-national health

Global Pop funds students from the following CUIMC Schools at this site:
VP&S and MSPH

Language requirement:
Prefer students with a knowledge of Spanish

Potential activities that could be carried out by students at this site:
Literature Review, Interview tool development, Interviewing/Surveying, Attend regular Team/Site meetings, Data collection, Data monitoring, Data analysis, Program monitoring and evaluation, Manuscript writing, Summarizing/Disseminating results, Formulation of recommendations/policy guidance, and Community outreach

Other requirements or information:
This site offers on-site orientation upon arrival.
CISS Website(link is external and opens in a new window)
Calvo Lab's Website(link is external and opens in a new window)