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Greetings!
As
graduation weekend approaches, we'd like to offer congratulations to all the students who will be recieving degrees from Duke.
We hope that those students involved in global health while at Duke continue to
find ways to use their passion for helping others as they move beyond the Duke
campus -
perhaps even to follow in the footsteps of such a notable worker in the field of global health as Dr. Helene Gayle, CEO
and president of CARE, who will
be receiving an honorary degree from Duke at the May 11 commencement ceremony.
As we say goodbye to some people, we welcome others. In
this newsletter, we introduce you to the newest member of the Duke Global Health Institute
team, Kim Chapman-Page. The newsletter also highlights the work of one of our
DGHI Members in our May podcast, reprints a presentation from one of the nursing students who travelled to Honduras this spring, and brings your attention to a number of new research
funding opportunities for those involved in global health.
Please
take note that during the months of May, June & July, this newsletter will
be published on a bi-weekly basis. In August we will resume the weekly
schedule. We will continue to post events, funding opportunities and other news
(especially from students who are working on global health projects this
summer) on our website each week. If you have information that
you believe should be included on our website or in our newsletter, please
forward it to marsha.green@duke.edu.
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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEW: Welcome
to Kimberly Chapman Page, Assistant Director of the Duke Global Health
Institute
NEW: Kim Alexander's Presentation on the "Exploring Medicine in Different Cultures" trip to Honduras (given at the reception for Paul Farmer on April 21)
NEW: May
2008 Podcast: This
month's podcast discusses Dr. Kate Whetten's efforts to research the characteristics of
caregiving that help orphans thrive.
NEW: Professional
News, May 2, 2008: News of
recent honors and presentations from the global health community at Duke.
NEW: The
Outbreak Narrative: In her latest book, Duke English professor Priscilla Wald,
Ph.D., explores the big picture of little germs -- how societal stories of
infectious diseases have come to fit certain formulas -- from AIDS to SARS.
Read a short excerpt. IN THE NEWS
May 5,
2008 (Herald Sun) "Studies find 1 in 5 babies lag in shots" (Dennis
Clements, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pediatrics, is quoted in this story about
nearly one in five North Carolina toddlers not being properly vaccinated
against childhood diseases.). Read
Online
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RESEARCH & TRAINING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
NEW:
Funding
Opportunity: Duke Center for Comparative Biology of Vulnerable Populations:
Deadline June 15, 2008 NEW:
Funding
Opportunity: NIH - Indo-US Program on Maternal and Child Health and Human
Development Research (R03):Deadline July 30 NEW: Funding
Opportunity: NIH Integrated Preclinical/Clinical Program for HIV Topical
Microbicides: Deadline June 17, 2008 NEW: Funding
Opportunity: RWJF Local Funding Partnership Call for Proposals: Deadline July
8, 2008 NEW: Funding
Opportunity: NIH-MIDAS Information Technology Resource (U24): Deadline Jun 2,
2008 NEW: Funding
Opportunity: NIH Gender, Youth and HIV Risk (R01, R21): Deadline June 29, 2008 NEW: Helen
Hay Whitney Foundation--Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Basic Biomedical
Research: Deadline July 15, 2008 NEW: Fellowship
Opportunity: American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship to Conduct
Research in India: Deadline July 1, 2008 NEW: 14th
Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health
For other
Research Funding Opportunities, visit the announcements section of our website.
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SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES
Volunteers Needed To Sort & Pack Supplies
Now that many students have left for the summer, Duke's REMEDY program
is in great need of volunteers to help with sorting and packing surplus
supplies. Contact John Lohnes at john.lohnes@duke.edu or visit www.duke.edu/web/remedy for
more information. You can also join the REMEDY email list at https://lists.duke.edu/sympa (search
for "remedy" in the index). Medical Missions
The
Institute for International Medicine is hosting the "INMED
Exploring Medical Missions Conference from May 30-31 at the University of Missouri
for those interested in working internationally.
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ONLINE RESOURCE
Each week, we highlight a website of interest to those involved in global health.
The
National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library and a
component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has opened a new
interactive exhibition, "Against the Odds:
Making a Difference in Global Health." The exhibition is open to the
public on the NIH campus in Bethesda,
Maryland, and is also available
online.
"Against
the Odds" profiles a wide variety of efforts to improve global health,
from a look at the public health problems posed by Hurricane Katrina to the
barefoot doctors program in rural China
in the 60s and 70s to the story of how the Pholela
Health Center
in South Africa inspired the
community health center movement in the U.S.
The online
exhibition also includes interactive games and teaching resources.
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| UPCOMING EVENTS
Check our Duke Global Health Institute Calendar regularly for more events.
May 9,
2008» 6:00 p.m.
Graduation
Reception for students who will be receiving the Certificate in Global Health
Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room
May 9,
2008 » 8:00 a.m.
"Divergent
Responses to an Obesogenic Environment: Understanding the African American
Obesity Disparity"
Duke University Hospital Room 2002
May 13,
2008 » 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Pediatric
Obesity Mini-Seminar Series: Presentation by Dr. Michael Freemark
Event Room, SSRI, Bay A, Mill
Building, Durham
May 20,
2008 » 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Pediatric
Obesity Mini-Seminar Series: Presentation by Tom Glass (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
SPH)
Event Room, SSRI, Bay A, Mill
Building, Durham
May 25 - 28, 2008
Seventh
International Symposium on Typhoid Fever and other invasive Salmonelloses
Kenya Medical Research
institute May 27
2008 » 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Pediatric
Obesity Mini-Seminar Series: Presentation by Barry Popkin (UNC SPH)
Event Room, SSRI, Bay A, Mill
Building, Durham
May
27-June 1
The Global
Health Council will host its annual international conference
Washington, D.C.
May 29,
2008 » 11 a.m.
Dr. Risa
Lavizzo-Mourey Gives Lecture on Turning Back the Tide of Obesity
Geneen Auditorium, Duke's Fuqua School
of Business
May
30-31, 2008
"Exploring Medical Missions
Conference"
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City MO
June
3, 2008 » 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
14th
Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health
Webcast
and broadcast live at Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building Auditorium, UNC
June
25-27, 2008
"Sprituality,
Health and Human Flourishing: Meaning? Measurement? Implications?"
Durham, NC
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