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Greetings!
Greetings!
Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. understood health disparities as a form of injustice. As Duke
takes this week to celebrate King's life and legacy, we invite you to join in
one of the many ways the Duke community is working to bring about more justice
in health for people in our own community and across the world. These
activities range from packing meals for STOP HUNGER on January 23, to attending
the keynote talk to be given by Uwe Reinhard at the PKU-UNC
Global Health Forum: Health Crises and Disparities: Working Together on
Solutions on January 30. Every bit
of action and knowledge helps.
We hope
this newsletter continues to help you stay abreast of global health-related
activities and opportunities. If you have news that you would like included,
please email it to marsha.green@duke.edu.
We are also continuing to solicit feedback and comments on our new website (www.globalhealth.duke.edu). Please send comments and suggestions to marsha.green@duke.edu.
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NEWS
Job
Opportunities: The Duke Global Health Institute
has added a new page to our website to highlight global health related
employment opportunities at the Institute and other departments at Duke.
Fighting
Hunger
Duke's student chapter of Nourish International will being
hosting a weekly Hunger Lunch on the Bryan
Center Plaza
on Thursdays from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m to raise money to fight hunger.
All Duke students, staff and faculty are invited to join the Duke/NCCU Stop
Hunger Now Million Meals Project on January 23 to help pack 80,000
nutritious meals for children in developing countries.
Wanted: Used Medical Books
Frank
Grassi, MD, a Duke undergrad and US Navy medical doctor stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan
is looking for donations of medical textbooks or periodicals published in the
last 5 years to donate to the Kabul
Medical University.
Anyone interested in working with him to organize a donation should email frank.t.grassi@afghan.swa.army.mil.
Global Health Week March 23-29 at
Duke
The Duke Global Health Student
Action Committee (DGHSAC) will host Duke's first-ever Global Health Week
March 23-29. They are offering grants of approximately
$250 to students and organizations with a creative idea to get students
involved in the global health culture on campus. The next meeting of the DGHSAC
is Jan. 27.
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Service Opportunities
DGHI Service Opportunities:
Duke Global Health
Institute continues to list service opportunities organized by the Institute,
as well as service opportunities offered by other centers, institutes, and
organizations. Recent additions to the list
of opportunities with other agencies include service in Costa Rica and
North & South Carolina. Letters
of Interest for DGHI opportunities are due January 31, 2008.
DukeEngage now has an overview of group
projects opportunities available on their website. The deadline for application
for funding for group projects if Feb. 15, 2008.
Millennium
Village Internship Deadline January 24
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Call for Papers/Posters/Abstracts
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Online Resource
Each week
we highlight an online resource for global health. This week we highlight Environmental Research Letters: The
open-access journal for environmental science.
The latest
journal Environmental Research Letters issue has a special focus on
Environmental Justice and Health Internationally. All articles on this topic
are free to download. As the editorial introducing the issue says, "It is now
commonly understood that much of the worldwide burden of environmental ill
health falls disproportionately on poorer peoples There is also substantial
evidence that much environmental damage internationally is the result of the
actions of richer nations or richer groups within nations-with impacts on
poorer nations and poorer groups within nations. It is becoming clear also that
poorer peoples internationally experience multiple environmental harms, and
that these may have a cumulative effect. ... Environmental justice is a concept
that links the environmental health science documenting these harms, to debates
around rights, justice and equity.
The full
texts of articles in this focus issue are available at http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1748-9326/2/4/045001.
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Upcoming Events
Eyewitness to Global
Warming, a vivid account by polar explorer, author and
educator Will Steger; Thursday,
January 24, 4 p.m., Reynolds Theater. Free tickets
available at the Duke University Bryan Center Box office or DUMC rooms M117 or
108 in the Green Zone, Duke South. For more information, contact stacy.rose@duke.edu.
Global
Health Forum Meeting; January 27, 2008. Join students
as they plan for the Global Health Week in March at Duke.
Ethical
Issues in Global Short-term Medical Outreach: A Symposium; February 5, 2008 - 7 - 9 p.m at Hock Plaza Auditorium. This is a UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke
collaborative event for the medical community interested in the ethics of short
term global health experiences in the context of medical education.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
February 24-27, 2008
Microbicides 2008 Conference:
"Striving for HIV Prevention", New Delhi, India
March 14-16, 2008
CGI U, a new project of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI),
will hold its inaugural meeting March 14-16, 2008 at Tulane
University, New Orleans. Applications are due
February 18, 2008.
March 10-12, 2008
Partnering for Global Health
Forum 2008 organized by BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH) and the
Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and sponsored by the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation. Washington, DC
April 12-13, 2008,
Unite for Sight Fifth
Annual International Health Conference "Building
Global Health For Today and Tomorrow" with keynote Addresses by Dr.
Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Susan Blumenthal, and Dr. Jim Yong Kim. Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut.
Early
Bird Rates end January 30, 2008.
May 27 - June 1, 2008
Global Health Council hosts its annual international meeting Washington
DC
June 18-20, 2008
RAISE: Reproductive Health in
Emergencies Conference 2008, Munyonyo,
Kampala, Uganda. Deadline for
Abstracts, Jan. 31, 2008.
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