{"id":57338,"date":"2017-03-10T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T01:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=57338"},"modified":"2019-02-28T16:09:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T02:09:25","slug":"global-health-researcher-catherine-pirkle-selected-as-a-fulbright-specialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/10\/global-health-researcher-catherine-pirkle-selected-as-a-fulbright-specialist\/","title":{"rendered":"Global health researcher Catherine Pirkle selected as a Fulbright Specialist"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_47945\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47945\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mano-public-health-pirkle-c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"270\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mano-public-health-pirkle-c.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mano-public-health-pirkle-c-193x260.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Pirkle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/publichealth\/directory\/catherine-pirkle\"><strong>Catherine Pirkle<\/strong><\/a>, a University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa assistant professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/publichealth\/\">Office of Public Health Studies<\/a>, has been selected as a Fulbright Specialist by the J. William Fulbright Council for International Exchange of Scholars. She will collaborate with faculty at the College of Health Sciences of Trair&iacute; (<abbr title=\"Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais Aplicadas\">FACISA<\/abbr>), which is a rural satellite campus of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cesed.br\/portal\/\">Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte<\/a> in Northeast, Brazil. <\/p>\n<p>Pirkle will be working on <abbr>FACISA<\/abbr>&#8217;s health system and research capacity to address issues such as reproductive and sexual health including early pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and violence against women. She will lead teacher training and participate in short-term lecturing and seminars. <\/p>\n<p>Pirkle has a long history of working in underserved global settings including West Africa and Arctic regions. She has strong, long-term international connections to research teams around the globe with which to link faculty and staff at <abbr>FACISA<\/abbr>. She will help prepare students to address critical public health needs and to attract more local and international students.<\/p>\n<p>As a Fulbright Specialist, Pirkle will also be considered for additional future overseas assignments that require her unique expertise during the next three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She will lead teacher training at <acronym title=\"Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais Aplicadas\">FACISA<\/acronym>, and participate in short-term lectures and seminars on topics including early pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and violence against women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[598,165,134,241,449,596,9],"class_list":["post-57338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-health","tag-international","tag-public-health","tag-public-health-sciences","tag-myron-b-thompson-school-of-social-work","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57338"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78673,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57338\/revisions\/78673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}