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Greetings!
This week Duke students are celebrating Global Health Week at Duke. We hope that if you are on or near Duke University that you will take advantage of some of the opportunities the Duke Global Health Action Committee has arranged. We are also pleased to be hosting our penultimate University Seminar on Global Health with Maria Ines da Silva Barbosa, Programme Coordinator for UN Development Fund for Women, speaking
on " Health Disparities in Brazil." Dr. Barbosa will speak at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 1. (Please note that this event is on a Tuesday, a change from our customary Thursday seminar dates). There are many other opportunities to learn about global health issues and experiences at Duke in early April, from the Sixth Annual Mini-Symposium on Pathogenic Human Viruses on April 3, to the Anti-Trafficking Conference at UNC on April 3-4. More details of these and other opportunities are listed below. As always,
if you have events or opportunities you would like to see included in this
newsletter, please email them to marsha.green@duke.edu.
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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Celebrate Duke Global
Health Week at Duke Hosted
by the Duke Global Health Action Committee, this week has been designated in
memory of Aalok Modi (1986-2008). The full calendar of events is available online. Events include
educational displays, prominent guest speakers, and two concert/fundraisers for
global health.
Paul
Farmer to Give Public Lecture at Duke on April 21, 6:30-8 PM, Page Auditorium, co-sponsored by the School
of Nursing Office of Global and Community Health Initiatives, the Duke
Global Health Institute and WISER.
Tickets for this free talk will be available on a first-come,
first-served basis beginning at 5:30 p.m. on April 21 at Page Auditorium.
Maria Ines da Silva Barbosa will give the University Seminar on Global Health on "Health Disparities in Brazil" on Tuesday, April 1 at 4:00 p.m. at the John Hope Franklin Center.
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RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
NEW: Duke's
Micro-Incentives Research Center Offers Seed Money Grants: Deadline April
11
NEW: Request
for Proposals for Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation: Deadline April 14
Other
Approaching Research Deadlines and Opportunities:
RFP for Duke Human Immunology Center.
If your research is applicable and suitable for the possible inclusion in
the application, please contact Garnett Kelsoe, D.Sc., James B. Duke Professor
of Immunology, to review the RFP for important additional information. Proposals due March 31, 2008.
One Year Mentored HIV/AIDS-related Clinical Research Fellowship: Application Deadline
April 30
amfAR MSM Initiative Community Awards - Requests for Proposals. Deadline April 15
Gates Foundation to Begin Accepting Grant Proposals March 31
for Grand Challenges Explorations
For other research
opportunities, visit the Research Announcements page on our website.
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EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES
NEW:
Harvard
School of Public Health Summer Session : Deadline for applications is April
1, 2008
NEW:
The
2008 Geneva Seminar: Health and Globalization: Deadline for applications is
April 18, 2008
Communicating Science Workshop: Pre-registration Deadline March 26. This free workshop is offered by AAAS and NSF at North Carolina State University on April 3, 2008.
Early Registration for
the Global Health Council annual international
conference from May 27 through June 1, 2008 ends March 28.
For more opportunities,
visit the Education Announcements page on our website.
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SERVICE OPPORTUNITY
NEW: Service
Opportunity: Help Build Bililights April 12-13:
Tackle Design, Inc. and Duke
University - Engineering
World Health are hosting a public build of phototherapy devices. The completed
devices will be distributed in Africa and Central America
this summer to help treat jaundice in babies. No skills necessary. Sign up for
a 4-hour shift at http://www.mysignup.com/ewh. NEW: Summer Internship with CDC Kenya Global Disease Division. Eight week internship, June-August 2008 in Kisumu Kenya. Intern will be involved in linking and analyzing of population-based morbidity data. To apply, send letter of interest and resume to Heather Burke at HBurke@ke.cdc.gov.
Summer Internships with Program on Global Health and Technology Access: Deadline
April 1, 2008
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ONLINE RESOURCE
March 24,
2008 was World TB day. On March 17, the World Health Organization released its
newest report on TB. Bringing together
data reported by 202 out of 212 countries and territories in 2007, as well as
data collected from these countries and territories in previous years, Global Tuberculosis Control 2008 is the
definitive source of information about the national and international response
to the worldwide TB epidemic.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Check our Duke Global Health Institute Calendar
regularly for more events.
Duke Global
Health Week Calendar
OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK
March 26,
2008 » 7:00 p.m. --LSRC Love
Auditorium, Duke Campus Rachel
Kiddell-Monroe Gives Keynote Speech for Global Health Week
March 26,
2008 » 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. -- Searle
Center Lecture Hall, Duke
University "Accounting
for the Costs of US healthcare" by Bob Kocher, MD, McKinsey & Company
March 27,
2008 » Noon - 1:30 p.m -- Sanford
Institute, Rhodes Conference Room, Duke
University Science
to Service: Substance Abuse Prevention Seminar Series
March 27,
2008 » 6:00-7:30 PM -- Resource
Room in the Multicultural Affairs Center, Bryan
Center Peace
Corps Information Session
March 27,
2008 » 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. -- Perkins
Library (Gothic Reading Room - 2nd Floor), Duke University Campus "Innovations
and Challenges to Girls Education at Home and Abroad." by Joan Countryman
March 28,
2008 » 4 p.m. -- Old
Chemistry Building Room 201, Duke
University Nicholas
School of the Environment Seminar Series presents "The Quest for Safe
Drinking Water by Biosand Filtration"
March 28,
2008 » 12:30 p.m. -- UNC School of Public Health UNC
Office of Global Health Seminar Series - Godfrey Woelk
April 1-2,
2008 -- The Friday Center
- Chapel Hill, N.C.
Women's
Health Research Day 2008
Tuesday,
April 1, 2008 » 4:00-5:30-- John Hope
Franklin Center Room 240 University
Seminar on Global Health: Dr. Barbosa speaks on "Health Disparities in
Brazil"
April 2, 2008 » 2:00 p.m. -- Schiciano Auditorium in
the FitzpatrickCenter,
CIEMASBuilding,
Duke University
Duke
Comprehensive Cancer Center Town Hall Meeting with John Niederhuber, MD,
Director of the National Cancer Institute
April 3, 2008 » 8:55 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. -- Bryan
Research Building Room 103, Duke
University
Duke
Center for Virology Sixth Annual Mini-Symposium on Pathogenic Human Viruses
April 3,
2008 » 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. -- NC State University,
Talley Student Center,
Walnut Room Communicating
Science: tools for Scientists and Engineers -- AAAS and NSF Workshop
April 3-4,
2008 -- The Friday Center
- UNC, Chapel Hill, N.C. COAST
Conference Committee Second Anti-Trafficking Conference
National/International
Conferences
The 17th Annual
Global Health Education Consortium Conference will be held from April 3-5,
2008 in Sacramento, CA
The Emory University
CFAR Science Symposium will be held April 8, 2008.
University
Conference on Human Rights (NUCHR) is proud to announce a national student
conference on Globalization and
the Universality of Human Rights which will take place on Northwestern's Evanston IL
campus on April 10-13, 2006.
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