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Greetings!
Africa is on our minds this week at the Duke Global Health Institute.
A team of Duke faculty, staff and students are currently in Africa attending the First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala, Uganda. Learn more about their experiences through their blog. Duke will also be hosting a University Seminar on Global Health this week with Bob Einterz, MD, of Indiana University, who spent the last week in February in Kenya as part of his work with AMPATH, an HIV/AIDS program created in partnership between Indiana University and Moi University in Kenya. And the news on Feb. 28 of a political agreement in Kenya brings hope for a variety of partnerships Duke has with colleagues and institutions in Kenya.
On the home front, we are pleased to announce that we now have on our website a growing list of faculty members at Duke who are involved in global health research, education and service.
If you have additional information you would like to have posted on the Duke Global Health Institute website or in this newsletter, please contact Marsha Green at marsha.green@duke.edu. |
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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEW: Kenya Peace Accord Received With Hope at Duke
Faculty and staff at DGHI and elsewhere at Duke nurture the hope that the Feb. 28 agreement in Kenya will soon allow relationships with Kenyan colleagues to blossom once again.
NEW: A team of Duke faculty, staff and students (from the School of Medicine and from Fuqua) are in Kampala, Uganda at the First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, sponsored by the Global Health Workforce Alliance and the World Health Organization. Follow their experiences on the "DukeinKampala Blog"
NEW: Job Opening: Staff Assistant at Center for Health Policy
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RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
NEW: Communicating Science Workshop (April 3)
Free Workshop at NCSU for Faculty and PhD candidates. Preregistration required by March 26
NEW: amfAR MSM Initiative Community Awards - Requests for Proposals
Applications must be received no later than 15 April 2008 for Latin America or 6 May 2008 for Asia and the Pacific.
Approaching Deadlines and Opportunities:
· Mellon Undergraduate Awards for Summer Research: Deadline: March 7, 2008
· NICHD and NIMH Soliciting Research Applications on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: Deadlines: Mar. 10, 2008 (letters of intent); Apr. 10, 2008 (applications)
· Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life Research Grants Program: Awards of up to $15,000 for faculty or postdoctoral fellows at Duke, UNC-CH or NCCU.
· National Institute of General Medical Sciences Funding Opportunity for MIDAS
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Call for Papers/Posters/Abstracts
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SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES
Approaching Deadlines and Opportunities:
· Helping Handz Volunteer Program: Volunteers needed for the Annual International Conference on Global Health in Washington DC May 27-31.
· DGHI Projects for Summer 2008
There are still positions available for fieldwork opportunities this summer
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ONLINE RESOURCE
From March 2-7, nearly 1,000 people are gathering in Kampala, Uganda, to attend the Global Health Workforce Alliance First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health. Among those attending are several Duke faculty and students (see their live blog).
To further elucidate the problems related to global health workforce crisis, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, THE LANCET published a themed issue on this topic. The February 23, 2008 issue contains 20 articles about human resources and health. Most of these articles are available on THE LANCET website, along with a podcast interview with GHWA executive director Francis Omaswa and others who contributed to the issue. |
In the News
March 2, 2008: Durham Herald Sun article about health problems in Durham.
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| UPCOMING EVENTS
Check our Duke Global Health Institute Calendar regularly for more events.
University Seminar on Global Health: Update on HIV/AIDS in Kenya - Bob Einterz, Indiana University
March 6, 2008 - 4 p.m.
"Improving Vaccine Development and Distribution" - UNC Brown Bag Lunch Seminar
March 6, 2008 - 12:30 - 1:30 PM
Dr. Adrienne Stauder Talk on Health Problems in Central and Eastern Europe
March 7, 2008 - 9:30-11:00 AM
Duke University Cancer Center Annual Meeting
March 10, 2008
The Eighth Annual Tuberculosis Symposium: The Many Faces of Tuberculosis
March 14, 2008 - 8:30 AM- 5:00 PM
University Seminar on Global Health: Dr. Thompson speaks on "Polio Eradication and Risk Management: Insights from Global Health"
Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 4:00 - 5:30 PM
UPCOMING NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
March 10-12, 2008
Partnering for Global Health Forum 2008
Washington, DC
March 14-16, 2008
CGI U, a new project of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI),
Tulane University, New Orleans
April 3-5, 2008
The 17th Annual Global Health Education Consortium Conference
Sacramento, CA
April 10-13
Northwestern University, Evanston, Il
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.
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