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Greetings!
In this newsletter we are happy to introduce two new faculty members who will be working with us at the Duke Global Health Institute: Jen'nan Read and M. Giovanna Merli. We are also delighted to share with you the first blog from Jeff Wilkinson in Moshi Tanzania, describing the experience of launching the Duke-KCMC Women's Reproductive Health program. Our online resource this week is a link to free, daily online coverage of the International AIDS Conference being held in Mexico City, and we also provide a link to Dr. Michael Merson's article on lessons learned about HIV prevention, which is being published in The Lancet's Special Issue on HIV Prevention. As students begin to come back to campus for the new academic year, we are resuming our weekly schedule for this e-newsletter. If you have
articles or announcements you would like included, please contact Marsha Green ( marsha.green@duke.edu).
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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Two New Interdisciplinary Scholars Bring Global Health Expertise to Duke
DGHI Welcomes Jen'nan Read and M. Giovanna Merli.
HIV: Combination Prevention Is the Way Ahead and Mistakes of Mid 1990s Must Not Be Repeated
Read DGHI Director Michael Merson's recent contribution to The Lancet's Special Issue on HIV Prevention.
Women's Health Team Begins Blogging from Tanzania
Jeff Wilkinson, MD, and his team are launching a
new Duke-KCMC program centered on women's health.
DGHI IN THE NEWS
July 2008 (Channel News Asia) New Dean appointed for Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
Dr. Ranga Krishnan appointed Dean. July 31, 2008 (Hindu News): "AIDS: Importance of nutrition confirmed." This article reports on a recent DGHI project in India on the importance of nutritional supplements for people living with AIDS.
(July 26, News & Observer) HIV strikes fast, study finds
Local coverage of Barton Haynes' research on HIV and the immune system.
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS & ABSTRACTS
PROPOSALS
Call
for Faculty Application for DukeEngage Programs
Deadline: September 15, 2008
Faculty
interested in proposing global health-related programs are encouraged to
contact Sumi Ariely, Student Projects Coordinator (sumi.ariely@duke.edu) for assistance on
proposal development. SSRI
Faculty Fellows Seminar Application
Deadline: September 19
This
year-long faculty-in-residence program brings Duke faculty members from multiple
departments and schools together in a stimulating intellectual setting to
explore cutting-edge research questions with the goal of creating and
communicating new knowledge through research publications and in the classroom.
Faculty participants are eligible for course release or other compensation, to
be negotiated among Department Chairs and Deans.
ABSTRACTS
CFAR
Fall Scientific Retreat (Sept. 27)
Deadline
for Abstracts: August 29
Open to
all pre- and post-doctoral trainees as well as faculty.
Unite for Sight Annual Global Health Conference (Yale University,
April 18-19, 2009)
Deadline
for Abstracts: August 15
Second
Uganda AIDS Conference (September 25-27, 2008, Entebbe, Uganda)
Deadline for
Abstracts: August 15
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
NEW: Hartwell Foundation - Individual Biomedical Research Awards
Deadline: Sept. 29, 2008
NEW: Roybal Centers for Translational Research on Aging Grants
Deadline: Oct. 1, 2008
NEW: Malaria Clinical, Operational and Health Services Research Training Program Grants
Deadline: August 15, 20008 Other Upcoming Deadlines:
Dept.
of Education and EPA Grants (multiple)
Deadline: August
11, 2008 (Earliest of 6) NIH Funding
Opportunity Application for Bioengineering
and Obesity
Deadline: Oct. 5, 2008 Modeling
of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) Centers of Excellence
Deadline for Letter of Intent: Sept. 24, 2008 GAVI
New Vaccines Program
Deadline August 29, 2008
IHME
Post - Graduate Fellowship Program
Deadline Sept.
1, 2008 Fogarty
International Center Funding Opportunity: Non-communicable Chronic Disease
Research Training Program
Deadline: Sept. 28, 2008
Faculty interested in applying are encouraged to contact Michael
Merson (michael.merson@duke.edu)
National
Institute on Aging Research on Social Neuroscience of Aging:
LOI Deadline Sept. 30, 2008
Carnegie
Humanitarian Fellowships in Africa
Deadline: Oct. 2, 2008
NIH FOA: Biobehavioral/Sociocultural
HIV Transmission and Infection Prevention Research
Deadline Oct. 5, 2008
NSF
Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
Duke Internal deadline, March 1, 2009 Visit our website for our full list of funding opportunities for Global Health Research or Education
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ONLINE RESOURCE
Daily, online coverage of the International AIDS Conference is offered by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Duke Job Opportunities:
These and other jobs
are posted on our employment page.
Non-Duke Job Opportunities:
- RTI
is currently recruiting for several global health positions. Visit www.rti.org/careers and search for the following Job
IDs.
Global
Health Product Manager (11467)
Program
Director, Indoor Residual Spraying Program (11531)
HIV/AIDS
Program Leader (11412)
Applied
Research and Evaluation Specialist (11491)
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| UPCOMING EVENTS
Check our Duke Global Health Institute Calendar regularly for more events.
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