I just received this from the MCH section of APHA. Thought I'd pass it  
on for anyone who may be eligible and interested or knows someone else  
who is

Naomi


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>
> In collaboration with the American Society of Bioethics and  
> Humanities (ASBH), the March of Dimes is pleased to announce the  
> creation of an annual Young Scholars Award in Perinatal Bioethics.
>
>
>
> Eligbility.  To be eligible for this award, applicants must be early  
> in their career development, including those who are actively  
> enrolled in graduate school, post-doctoral programs or no higher in  
> their career achievement than the assistant professorship level.   
> Applicants are invited to submit proposals on the topic of perinatal  
> ethics in any of the submission categories offered in the ASBH Call  
> for Proposals. Proposals about pregnancy, birth, lactation, prenatal  
> causes of disability, neonatal decision-making, and other perinatal  
> issues will be considered.
>
>
>
> Deadline.  Submit an abstract to the ASBH Call for Proposals on the  
> ASBH Web site no later than March 2, 2009 athttp://www.asbh.org/meetings/annual/callguidelines.html
>
>
>
> From those submitted abstracts, a select group of applicants will  
> then be invited to submit a full paper for review by the March of  
> Dimes/ASBH review committee.
>
>
>
> The Award.  The award will be presented at the ASBH Annual Meeting  
> in October to the applicant whose paper was selected to be of the  
> highest quality and intellectual rigor among the submitted papers.   
> The award winner will be receive an honorarium of $1,000 and will be  
> invited to present his/her paper at a plenary session at the ASBH  
> Annual Meeting, which will feature an invited lecture by a  
> distinguished scholar from the field of perinatal ethics.
>
>
>
> For further information concerning this award, please contact Alison  
> Saylor of ASBH at [log in to unmask] or Ann Umemoto of the  
> March of Dimes at [log in to unmask]

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Naomi Bar-Yam Ph.D.
Executive Director
Mothers' Milk Bank of New England

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617-964-6676
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