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Greetings!
This week's newsletter highlights some of the many ways Duke
students are engaging in global health issues - from an invitation to the
presentation tonight (Tuesday) of Pratt students and their summer projects overseas, to an invitation to the graduate student Global Health Working Group kick-off meeting (and dinner) on Wednesday, to a
reminder that first and second year undergraduates can now sign up for global
health FOCUS courses for the Spring.
In keeping with the focus on students, we also invite you to
read Sherryl Broverman's editorial in the Chronicle
about the need for students (and faculty) to make interdisciplinary connections,
even within individual courses. We also invite you to investigate our Global Health Resource of the week - the new student site of
The Lancet, a journal well known for its interest and advocacy of global health
issues.
At the end of this e-newsletter, you will find a quick list
of upcoming events, both locally and farther afield.
As always, if you have additional events or opportunities
you would like added to our website or newsletter, please let us know by
emailing marsha.green@duke.edu or contacting us
through our website at http://globalhealth.duke.edu.
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FEATURE: STUDENT ACTIVITIES
NEW: Global Health Working Group: 2007-08
Kick-Off Meeting With Free Dinner
Are you interested in global health? Do you want to find out what other students
are doing at Duke, and how you can contribute? Come to the Global Health
Working Group (GHWG) Kick-off meeting on Wednesday, October 3 at 7:30 p.m. in
the John Hope Franklin Center Room 028. (Dinner begins at 7:15.) Please RSVP to
Nancy Hare Robbins, nhare@duke.edu, as soon as possible. The
Global Health Working Group (GHWG) is a uniquely interdisciplinary gathering of
graduate and professional students from across the university. For more information, please visit http://www.duke.edu/web/ghwg/index.html,
or contact any of the co-coordinators: Meredith Barrett, Aaron Stoertz, Jason Cross, or Matt DeCamp.
NEW: 2008 Spring FOCUS
Cluster Deadline Oct. 20
First-year FOCUS
students at Duke can participate in the Global Health or Muslim Cultures
clusters. Sophomores can participate in the Global Health, Muslim Cultures and
Global Climate Change clusters. Apply now! Deadline: October 20, 2007
NEW: Engineers Without Borders Presentation Oct. 2
Duke Engineers Without Borders invites you to a presentation
about their water resource and community development projects in Uganda and Peru this past summer. Presentation on October 2, 7:30 - 8:15 p.m., CIEMAS Schiciano Auditorium, Duke
AIDS Climb at Hanging
Rock State
Park Oct. 27
AIDS Climb (a collaborative effort between UNC-CH and Duke
to raise money for local and international organizations that address AIDS
issues) will host a day hike at Hanging
Rock State
Park on October 27. Visit http://www.aidsclimb.org
to register for the hike and to learn more about the project.
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NEWS
NEW: "Making Connections": Sherryl
Broverman, professor of Biology, starts her editorial
in the 9/27/07 Duke Chronicle by saying, "I am a biologist by training,
but I do not think that biology, or medicine, or any of the life sciences, will
solve global health problems by themselves." This is the fourth article in
a series. Read all four
articles on the DGHI website.
African Health Care
Worker Shortage: Forum on Private Sector Responses, Nov. 29 - Dec. 1 Speakers include representatives from the
World Health Organization, Brookings Institution, Aspen Foundation, USAID,
OmniMed, Heineken Health Affairs, Tibotec, Gates Foundation, Intrahealth International,
Aga Khan Health Services, and more.
Registration fee is waived for Duke students. Scholarships are
available for others. Register today at www.afhcconf.com.
Duke School of Nursing and PAHO Host Caribbean
Conferences. The first conference, an invitational continuing education conference on
Managing
Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly, will take place in Barbados
October 8-11, 2007.
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). As a
provisional observer to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC), Duke can submit names for attendance to the upcoming meetings
(Conference of the Parties) in Bali in
December 2007. If you are interested in attending, please contact Leslie
Kleczek at ljk8@duke.edu.
Greenwall Foundation Faculty
Scholars Program in Bioethics. Information about Duke's internal review
process to select a candidate is available on the DGHI
website. The deadline for the internal review process is October 23, 2007.
Job Opening:
Hubert Yeargan Center for Global Health is looking for a Program Manager. Job description available at http://www.hr.duke.edu/jobs/ Requisition number: REQ# 400142308
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Each week, we introduce our readers to another online resource. This week, we're highlighting the Lancet's student site. The LancetStudent.com
is a beta site for medical students from around the world. In keeping with
The Lancet, it has a strong focus on global health.
Students can get involved in a variety of ways: write about
global health issues, submit elective reports, read a weekly summary of what's
in The Lancet, comment on the daily blog, vote in polls, download podcasts, or
use the global health resources.
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ABSTRACTS WANTED
NEW: Call for Abstracts for the 7th Annual East-West
Center International Graduate Student Conference on the Asia Pacific Region.
Deadline: Nov. 1, 2007
NEW: Global Health Council seeking abstracts from New
Investigators in Global Health (NIGH). Open to all
students currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program in a health-related
field or new professionals who have graduated in or since May 2006. The program provides the opportunity to make a
presentation at its major international conference May 27-31, 2008 in
Washington D.C. Deadline for NIGH abstracts is November 28, 2007.
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
NEW: NIH Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars
Program - Overseas
Fellowship in Global Health. Offers
one-year clinical research training to students in medical, osteopathic or
dental school, or doctoral level students at U.S. schools of public health,
optometry, nursing, pharmacy or veterinary medicine.
NEW: National Science
Foundation - East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students.
For students in science and engineering to work in Australia,
China, Japan, Korea
or Taiwan.
Deadline, Dec. 12, 2007.
NEW: Luce Scholars Program (for Study in Asia). Stipends and internships from the Luce (Henry)
Foundation for 18 Americans to live and work in Asia.
For scholars in any field other than Asian studies. Deadline for nominations:
Dec. 3, 2007.
NEW:Winston Churchill Foundation Scholarshipto pursue graduate studies in engineering,
mathematics, or the environmental and life sciences at Churchill College,
Cambridge, England. Deadline: Nov. 12, 2007
Barbara
Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program for College Seniors - Deadline Dec.
14. Funded by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
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RESEARCH FUNDING
NEW: NIH - Planning Grants for International Malaria Clinical, Operational and Health Services Research Training Programs. Deadline
for letter of intent, Dec. 12, 2007.
NEW:CDC
DASH Grant Opportunity for Improving Health and Education Outcomes of Young
People. Approximately $32,025,000
will be available in fiscal year 2008 to fund approximately 85 awards. Closing
date for applications: Nov. 21.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's African Health Initiative. Anyone at
Duke interested in submitting a proposal who would like to collaborate with
DGHI or seek our advice or assistance, please contact Michael Merson at michael.merson@duke.edu. Letters of
Interest are due to the foundation on November 15, 2007.
The Social
Science Research Council is seeking proposals from full-time graduate
students in the humanities and social sciences for empirical and site-specific
dissertation research outside the United States. The deadline is Nov.
6, 2007. Seventy-five fellowships will be awarded in 2008.
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Upcoming Local Events
October 2, 2007, 7:00 p.m., Nasher Museum
of Art
"Critical Perspectives on Development, Environment
& Public Health in China" by Walden Bello, Professor of Sociology and Public
Administration, University of the Philippines. Presented by Duke University Center
for International Studies & The Sawyer Seminar on Portents & Dilemmas:
Health & Environment in China
and India
October 2, 2007, 7:30 - 8:15 p.m., CIEMAS Schiciano
Auditorium
Duke Engineers Without Borders invites you to a presentation
about their water resource and community development projects in Uganda and Peru this past summer.
October 3, 2007, Noon - 1:30 p.m., Rhodes Conference Room, Sanford Institute, Duke
The Center for Child and Family Policy presents "Biological bases of Tobacco Addiction: Implications for Prevention and Treatment" by jed E. Rose, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences adn Director of the Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research.
October 4, 2007, 6:30 - 7:45 p.m., Fuqua School
of Business, Classroom A
Duke microfinance Club and CASE Speaker series presents John
Hatch, founder of FINCA
Village Banking, one of
the world's leading microcredit institutions. For more information, contact CASE Program Manager, Ruth
Tolman at ruth.tolman@duke.edu
October 4, 2007, Lecture and Reception, 5:00 p.m. East Duke
Parlors
"Arendt's children: The Growing Impact of Functional
Statelessness Today" by Jacqueline Bhabha, Jeremiah SMith Jr. Lecturer in Law,
Harvard Law School and the Executive Director, Harvard University Committee on
Human Rights Studies. Presented by the project on "Asylum: Comparative
Historical Perspectives." For more information, please contact Sarah
Lincoln at sarah.lincoln@duke.edu
October 9, 2007, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., Suite 650 Wachovia Plaza,
2200 West Main Street,
Durham
"Health literacy and clinical interventions" by Dr. Daniel Lee, UNC
School of Public Health. Part of the Implementation Theory Series, sponsored by the
Center for Clinical Health Policy Research. RSVP to mysha.sissine@duke.edu
October 10, 2007, 10 - 11 a.m., Hooker 2005, UNC-CH
The Student Global Health Committee at UNC's Education
sub-committee presents "Getting Health Supplies to Those in Need: Supply Chain
Management in Developing Countries" by Kim Beer, Strategic Consultant.
For more calendar items, visit the DGHI website at
http://globalhealth.duke.edu/calendar
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OTHER CONFERENCES
October 5, 2007
7th Annual Global Health Mini-University
George Washington University School of Public Health
October 18-20, 2007
Women Deliver: A Global Conference
A landmark global conference that will focus on creating political will to save
the lives and improve the health of women, mothers and newborn babies around
the world.
ExCel Centre in London.
November 3-7, 2007
American Public Health Association Annual
Meeting
This year's theme is "Politics, Policy & Public Health."
January 28 - February 15
Africa
Regional Workshop: Women's Leadership in HIV/AIDS
Nairobi, Kenya
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The Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) was founded in 2006
as a University-wide institute that works to reduce health disparities both in
the local community and worldwide. Recognizing that many global health problems
stem from economic, social, environmental, political, and health care
inequalities, the DGHI brings together interdisciplinary teams from schools and
departments throughout Duke University to work with partners to solve high
priority global health problems and to train the next generation of global
health scholars.
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