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Greetings!
April is shaping up to be an exciting month for global health at Duke. We have three exciting speakers coming to Duke to share their views on global health: Tachi Yamata, of the Gates Foundation, will give a Chancellor's Lecture at 11 a.m. on April 28, Paul Farmer will give a public talk on the evening of April 21, and Maria Ines da Silva Barbosa will give our penultimate University Seminar on Global Health today (April 1) at 4:00 p.m. at the John Hope Franklin Center. In mid-April, Duke's own David Walmer, MD, will present the final University Seminar on Global Health on April 10 at 4:00 p.m., sharing with us his work in reproductive health in Haiti. Duke Medical Student Matthew DeCamp will speak about Human Rights, Essential Medicines, and Intellectual Property as part of the Trent Center Colloquium Series on April 8. For those who want more than lectures, there are plenty of opportunities, from an evening of dance in support of the Bonjour Africa Malaria Project (BAMP) on April 12, to an Evening of Art for Haiti on April 19, to an opportunity to help build bili-lights on April 12-13 and more. Please check out the full list of events at the end of this newsletter, and investigate the other opportunities listed for education, research and service. 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
NEW: Job Opportunity: Professor of Global Environmental Health at Duke. Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) have an opening for a tenured associate or full professor of global environmental health.
NEW: Surviving on $2 a Day
Students in Bob Malkin's Design for the Developing World course were asked to live on $2 a day, just as millions of students around the world do.
NEW: School of Nursing Foreign Immersion Experience
Duke students from the School of Nursing study abroad and learn about basic preventative health care from local nurses.
NEW: Duke Global Health Podcast: Successful Service Trips
Listen to a 6 minute podcast in which Dr. Dennis Clements talks about his experiences in service work, and what makes for a successful service trip.
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| EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES
NEW: Career Fair at the Global Health Council's Annual Conference. If you haven't already signed up for the Global Health Council's Annual Conference in Washington DC May 27-31, here's another reason to do so: organizations from around the world will be present at the Career Fair on May 27 from 2:30 - 5 p.m.
NEW: Free Student Opportunity for 2008 Beijing Olympics
IMUSE 2008 China in my Eyes Competition is holding a competition to send six North American students to the 2008 Beijing Olympics free of charge.
Approaching Deadlines and Opportunities:
The 2008 Geneva Seminar: Health and Globalization: Deadline for applications is April 18, 2008
For more opportunities, visit the Education Announcements page on our website.
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SERVICE OPPORTUNITY
Approaching Deadlines and Opportunities:
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 which will help treat jaundice in babies.
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. |
ONLINE RESOURCE
This week our online resource is from the American Medical Student Association. This association has multiple action committees, including a Global Health Action Committee, a Community and Public Health Action Committee, and Health Policy Action Committee. The website contains a wealth of information in each of these areas, and lists real things one can do to help. It is a great resource for activists and those just wanting to know more about global health. |
| UPCOMING EVENTS
Check our Duke Global Health Institute Calendar regularly for more events.
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 1, 2008» 12:15 p.m.
College of Veterminary Medicine, Room 101, 1051 William Moore Drive, Raleigh NC
PoPMED Seminar: "Potential health effects of DDT on humans" by Matthew Longnecker, NIEHS
April 1-2, 2008
The Friday Center - Chapel Hill, N.C.
Women's Health Research Day 2008
April 2, 2008 » 2:00 p.m.
Schiciano Auditorium in the Fitzpatrick Center, CIEMAS Building, 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
April 8, 2008 » 5:00 - 6:15 p.m.
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240, Duke University
"Human Rights, Essential Medicines, and Intellectual Property: The Moral Case for Reform" by Matt DeCamp
April 8, 2008 » 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room, Duke University
"Adolescents, Neighborhoods and Violence" by Felton Earls
April 11 - 12, 2008 » Keynote Speaker April 11, 5:30; Other Events, April 12, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Duke University
Moral Mathematics: The Science of Human Rights
April 12, 2008 » 8:00 AM- 5:30 PM
Durham Regional Hospital
Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault: Providing Competent Medical & Spiritual Care
National/International Conferences
April 3-5
The 17th Annual Global Health Education Consortium Conference will be held from April 3-5, 2008 in Sacramento, CA
April 8
The Emory University CFAR Science Symposium will be held April 8, 2008.
April 9-10
The Eighth Annual Harvard University Center for AIDS Research Symposium and Poster Session: "Human Genomics: Advances and Opportunities in HIV/AIDS Research" is being held April 9th and 10th at Harvard University.
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 which will take place on Northwestern's Evanston IL campus on April 10-13, 2006.
April 11
The first annual meeting of the Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions is being held at University of Pittsburg on April 11. A full list of speakers is available online.
April 12-13
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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