April 8, 2008
Duke Global Health Institute
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JOB OPPORTUNITIES
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES
IN THE NEWS
ONLINE RESOURCE
SERVICE OPPORTUNITY
UPCOMING EVENTS
Greetings!

April 7 was World Health Day, celebrated to mark the anniversary of the World Health Organization. In honor of this year's focus on climate change, we offer an essay on biodiversity and health by Timothy Bouley, a Duke Medical student, and our Online Resource links to the WHO podcast on climate change and human health.


This newsletter also provides links a variety of activities the Duke Global Heatlh Institute is involved in, from the recruitment of a new DGHI director of development, Josh Bond, to a brief article about Maria Ines da Silva Barbosa's discussion of Racial Health Disparities in Brazil at our April 1 University Seminar on Global Health. Our final University Seminar on Global Health will be this Thursday (April 10), when David Walmer will share his experience on preventing cervical cancer in low-resource countries. We expect that David will also invite you all to the April 19 fundraiser, "An Evening of Art for Haiti" hosted by Family Health Ministries,  to celebrate the first-year anniversary of the Blanchard Clinic in Port-au-Prince Haiti, where David does much of his work.

 

For those of you interested in attending the lectures at Duke by Dr. Paul Farmer (April 21) and Dr. Tachi Yamada (April 28), this newsletter also includes ticket information for these events, along with information about many other global health activities.

 

As always, if you know of other events or opportunities in global health that should be included in this newsletter, please email us at marsha.green@duke.edu.

NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEW: Biodiversity and Health: In honor of World Health Day (April 7), which focuses on climate change, we bring you an essay from Timothy Bouely, a first-year medical student at Duke.

NEW: DGHI appoints Josh Bond as Director of Development
Bond returns to Duke from the National Humanities Institute.

 

NEW: Duke Loosens Travel Restrictions for Kenya for Undergraduates.
Students may now travel through Nairobi en-route to other destinations.


NEW: Racial Health Disparities in Brazil: April 1 University Seminar on Global Health by Maria Ines da Silva Barbosa, PhD.



JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Job Opportunities at DGHI

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.

The Duke Global Health Institute is also recruiting for a research assistant.

 

The Center for Global Development in Washington DC is looking for a Global Health Policy Research Program Coordinator

 
RESEARCH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
 

NEW: Small Innovative Grants and Special Projects of the Duke CFAR: Next cycle of applications due June 13

 

Other Approaching Deadlines:

 

Gates Foundation Now Accepting Grant Proposals Grand Challenges Explorations

 

Duke's Micro-Incentives Research Center Offers Seed Money Grants; Deadline April 11

 

Request for Proposals for Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation: Deadline April 14, 2008

 

Post-Graduate Fellowship at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

 

One Year Mentored HIV/AIDS-related Clinical Research Fellowship: Application Deadline April 30

 

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.

 

William T. Grant Scholars Program - Internal Duke Deadline May 12, 2008

 

RTI-University Collaboration Fund Offers Small Grants For Local Dialogue 
 

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES

NEWCareer Connections at the Global Health Council International Conference
If you haven't already registered for the May 27-31 Global Health Council International Conference in Washington DC, here's one more reason: On May 27, from 9:30 - 11, senior-level professionals will describe the unique characteristics of their field and how and why they got started in global health.

 

Apply to NIH/Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellows Program:
Deadline April 30, 2008
 
For more opportunities, visit the Education Announcements page on our website.
IN THE NEWS
 

Our Medicines. Our Labs. Our Responsibility
Timothy A. Bouley and Richard Waters, medical students at Duke and members of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, wrote this Duke Chronicle column.

 

New Program Supports Interdisciplinary Faculty Hires
Five new positions targeted in initial effort, including three faculty who will work with the Duke Global Health Institute. (Duke Today article)

 

Six Duke School of Medicine students selected as 08-09 NC Albert Schweitzer Fellows.
Fellows will devote over 800 hours of service to local communities lacking access to adequate health services. (Duke Today article)

ONLINE RESOURCE

April 7 was World Health Day, celebrated to mark the founding of the World Health Organization. This year's theme is climate change and human health. This week's podcast from the World Health Organization gives a quick overview of some of the challenges that climate change poses for health.
SERVICE OPPORTUNITY

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.

 
UPCOMING EVENTS

Check our Duke Global Health Institute Calendar regularly for more events.

 

 

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 9, 2008 » 12:00-1:00 PM

Duke North Hospital Lecture Hall 2002

"Decision Making at the End of Life: Role of Patient-Physician Communication"

 

April 9, 2008 » 7 p.m.

FedEx Global Education Center, UNC

Human Rights Week Keynote Speaker at UNC: Wahu Kaara Speaks on the Kenyan Political Crisis and Millennium Development

 

April 10, 2008 » 5:00 PM

Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research Center

Provost Lecture Series: "The Politics of Pluperfection"

 

April 10, 2008 » 4:00-5:30 PM

John Hope Franklin Center Room 240

University Seminar on Global Health: Dr. David Walmer

 

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 11, 2008 » 12:30 PM

Blue Cross Blue Shield Auditorium, Michael Hooker Research Center, UNC School of Public Health

"The Meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything: Relevance of Two-by-Two Tables"

 

April 11, 2008 » 3:00 PM

UNC Injury Prevention Center

The Effectiveness of a School-based Social Skills Training Program

 

April 11, 2008 » 12:30 p.m.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Auditorium, UNC School of Public Health

UNC Office of Global Health Seminar Series - Yvan Hutin

 

April 12, 2008 » 8:00 AM- 5:30 PM

Durham Regional Hospital

Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault: Providing Competent Medical & Spiritual Care

 

April 12, 2008 » 7 p.m. - 12 a.m.

Durham Armory, 220 Foster Street, Durham

Bonjour African Malaria Project (BAMP)

 

April 14, 2008 » 7:00 PM

The William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education at UNC

"Reflections on Katrina: Notes on Disaster, Trauma, and Community"

 

April 17 » 8:30 PM

East Campus Coffeehouse

FHN Benefit Concert

 

April 17, 2008 » 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Michael Hooker Research Center, UNC

UNC GlobeMed Chapter Benefit & Networking Dinner


 

April 21, 2008 » 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Page Auditorium, Duke University
Paul Farmer to Give First Annual Global Health Lecture

April 28 2008 » 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center, Duke University
"Global Health: Priorities and Approaches:" A Chancellor's Lecture presented by Dr. Yamada of the Gates Foundation
 

National/International Conferences

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