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Greetings!
While Duke undergraduates are on Spring Break, global health efforts at Duke continue apace. In this week's newsletter we highlight two recent activities -- the Duke team's trip to Kampala to attend an international meeting on human resources for health, and the March 6 University Seminar on Global Heatlh by Bob Einterz. We also bring your attention to several upcoming events, which reflect on the wide range of interdisciplinary interests in global health at Duke: the events range from the next University Seminar on Global Health, which will discuss Polio Eradication, to a lecture by Christine Stauber, of UNC, on the quest for safe drinking water, hosted by the Nicholas School of the Environment's Earth and Ocean Sciences Seminar Series, to a symposium on tuberculosis sponsored by the Division of Infectious Diseases.
A reminder that Duke students are also planning a celebration of Global Health Week March 23-29. Stay tuned for more details.
As always,
if you have ideas of other events or opportunities that we should highlight in
our newsletter, please email them to marsha.green@duke.edu.
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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEW: The team of Duke faculty, staff and
students (from the School
of Medicine and Fuqua)
reflect on their experiences in their blog and in a short article about the trip.
NEW: Bob
Einterz, of Indiana University, gave the March 6 University Seminar on
Global Health, reflecting on his work in Eldoret Kenya with the "Academic Model for
Prevention and Treatment of HIV" (AMPATH).
The next University Seminar on Global Health will be given by Kim
Thompson, of Harvard University School of Public Health, speaking on "Polio
eradication and Risk Management: Insights from Global Health."
NEW: New job
opportunities in global health at Duke include two positions in the Program
on Global Health and Technology Access (a Program Associate and a Research
Associate) and a staff position for the Duke Global Health Institute.
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RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
NEW: Gates Foundation To Begin Accepting
Proposals for Grand
Challenges Explorations on March 31, 2008
Other Approaching Deadlines and
Opportunities:
·
Communicating Science Workshop (April 3)
Free Workshop at NCSU for Faculty and PhD candidates. Preregistration required
by March 26
·
amfAR MSM Initiative Community Awards - Requests for Proposals
Deadline
April 15 for Latin America or May 6 for Asia
and the Pacific
For other
research opportunities, visit the Research
Announcements page on our website.
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IN THE NEWS
March 8, 2008: Durham Herald Sun article, "HIV
takes toll on black women" discusses public forum on HIV/AIDS in Durham.
Tom Burroughs highlights Duke's connections to Kenya in the Duke Research Blog .
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ONLINE RESOURCE
Each week
we highlight an online resource of interest to people working in global health.
This week
we bring your attention to the Interactive Webcast on Influence of Immigration Policies on Health Care Decisions (March 12, 2008, 3 p.m.)
The Kaiser Family Foundation is sponsoring a
live, interactive webcast on "Immigration and Health Care: What are the Policy
Choices?" This is part of the ongoing
interactive webcast series, Today's Topics in Health Disparities.
Questions for panelists can be submitted in
advance of or during the program by emailing TodaysTopics@kaisernetwork.org.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Check our Duke Global Health Institute Calendar
regularly for more events.
The Eighth Annual Tuberculosis Symposium: The Many Faces of
Tuberculosis
March 14, 2008 - 8:30 AM- 5:00 PM -- Duke
University Medical
Center Hock
Plaza
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 -- John Hope Franklin Center Room 240
"The
Quest for Safe Drinking Water by Biosand Filtration: New Evidence from the
Field and the Lab" by Christine Stauber, of the University of North
Carolina
March 28, 2008 4:00 p.m., Old Chemistry Building Room 201, Duke
University
UPCOMING
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
April 3-5, 2008
The 17th Annual
Global Health Education Consortium Conference
Sacramento, CA
April 10-13
University
Conference on Human Rights (NUCHR) is proud to announce a national student
conference on "Globalization
and the Universality of Human Rights," .
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.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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