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Greetings!
We are
delighted to announce that Mark Ottenweller, Global HIV/AIDS Coordinator for
HOPE Worldwide, will be the first speaker in this year's University Seminar on Global Health on September 3. This year, we are expanding the series to 10
speakers, and are organizing informal meetings between students and speakers to
encourage more dialogue.
We also draw your attention to the first in a new series of profiles of
our DGHI members. This series will
highlight the variety of global health research accomplished by these faculty members.
The first profile introduces Brian Wells Pence, Assistant Professor of
Community and Family Medicine and the Center for Health Policy.
As always, we also include information on new
research and education funding opportunities, calls for abstracts, and upcoming
events. If you have information you would like to see included in this
newsletter, please email Marsha Green ( marsha.green@duke.edu).
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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
University Seminar on Global Health
Mark Ottenweller,
Global HIV/AIDS Coordinator for HOPE Worldwide, will give the first University Seminar on Global Health for the 08-09 academic year at
4:30 on September 3 at the John
Hope Franklin
Center.
The University Seminar on Global
Health series connects Duke students, faculty, and staff with world-renowned
global health researchers and experts and facilitates a
multi-discipline and cross-campus dialogue about
important global health issues. The monthly series is sponsored by the Duke
Global Health Institute and the Duke University Center on International Studies. Seminars
are held on Wednesdays at 4:30-6 pm in Room 240, John Hope Franklin
Center.
In
addition to the 4:30-6:00 seminar, DGHI is organizing "Global Health
Conversations" - one hour meetings designed to stimulate informal dialogue
between the speakers and students. Contact Michael Russell, (michael.g.russell@duke.edu)
for more information and to join the mailing list. Space for "Global Health Conversations" is
limited. For more information about the
University Seminar on Global Health series, visit www.globalhealth.duke.edu/seminars.
Q&A
With Brian Wells Pence, DGHI Member
Brian
Pence describes HIV/AIDS as a disease of the disenfranchised. He is
particularly interested in using his epidemiologic skills to investigate how
mental health and substance abuse influence the ability of people living with
HIV/AIDS to cope with their illness.
Duke
Fulbright Scholars Include Global Health Researchers
Seventeen Duke University
recent graduates and graduate students have received Fulbright scholarships.
Many will be studying global health issues.
DGHI IN THE NEWS
Aug 5,
2008 (Bloomberg) Michael Merson,
M.D. quoted in "Combined AIDS Efforts Might Prevent Half of Infections by
2015." Read Online.
Aug 4, 2008
(AP) Sarah Armstrong, MD, is quoted in the article on obesity,
"Immigrants' kids even less active than U.S.-born." Read Online.
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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.
Faculty participants are eligible for course release or other compensation, to
be negotiated among Department Chairs and Deans.
ABSTRACTS
NEW: aids2031
call for Abstracts: Mobilizing Social Capital in a World with AIDS
Deadline: September 30, 2008 NEW: Annual
Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students
Deadline: September 5, 2008
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: Funding
Opportunity: Duke-Durham Partnered Approaches to Health Problems in Durham
County:
Deadline: August 15
NEW: Postdoc
and Undergraduate Programs at the Institut Pasteur in Paris
Malaria
Clinical, Operational and Health Services Research Training Program Grants
Deadline: August 15, 20008
GAVI
New Vaccines Program
Deadline August 29, 2008
IHME
Post - Graduate Fellowship Program
Deadline Sept. 1, 2008
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
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)
Hartwell
Foundation - Individual Biomedical Research Awards
Deadline: Sept. 29, 2008
National
Institute on Aging Research on Social Neuroscience of Aging:
LOI Deadline Sept. 30, 2008
Roybal
Centers for Translational Research on Aging Grants
Deadline: Oct. 1, 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
Health
Sector Management's "Research Advantage" site
Duke's
Health Sector Management program has recently launched a "Duke HSM Research
Advantage" website to highlight health sector research at Duke.
The site
gives short summaries of recent research about health sector management topics conducted by Fuqua School of Business
faculty, with links to longer papers and reports. The site currently highlights more than 50 studies by Duke faculty members.
Examples of recent research
topics include:
- Huesch: How much learning is from our own experience?
- Kyle,
Allsbrook, & Schulman: Parallel trade for prescription drugs often does not
reduce international price differences.
- Kornish
& Keeney: Managing the tension between early production of annual flu
vaccines and waiting for information about flu strains.
- Zipkin:
RFID technology holds great promise and some dangers for health-care operations.
- Sanford Institute scholarship: Hospice use saves money for Medicare.
For more
information about the Research Advantage website, contact Will Mitchell, J. Rex
Fuqua Professor of International Management.
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JOB OPPORTUNITIES
The Duke
Global Health Institute is currently recruiting for the following faculty
positions:
Non-faculty positions currently open at DGHI include:
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Grants
and Contracts Specialist for DGHI
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Administrative
Assistant to the Director, DGHI
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India Study Director in India
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Ethnographers in India
For more details, visit the DGHI employment
page.
OTHER
NON-DUKE POSITIONS
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)
- Sr.
HIV/AIDS Program Leader (11412)
- Applied
Research and Evaluation Specialist (11491)
IntraHealth is looking for a Gender Advisor
to provide technical and training assistance in GBV, gender equality and
women's human rights. The position is initially 50% but is expected to increase
to 100% in the first year.
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| UPCOMING EVENTS
Check our Duke Global Health Institute Calendar regularly for more events.
August 14,
2008 » 2:00-3:00 PM
Kerr 2001, UNC School of Pharmacy
Bigger
Moms, Smaller Babies
August 29,
2008 » 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Searle Center
Welcoming
Reception (Fall 2008 ITEHP Seminar Series)
September
3, 2008 » 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
John Hope Franklin
Center - University
Seminar on Global Health
Mark
Ottenweller, Global HIV/AIDS Coordinator of HOPE Worldwide. Topic: Global
HIV/AIDS
September
5, 2008 » 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Searle Center
Personalized
Nutrition, Toxicology and Medicine: Do we have the Tools? (Fall 2008 ITEHP
Seminar Series)
September
17, 2008
Searle Center, Duke University
Duke
CFAR Fall Scientific Retreat
September
18, 2008 » 5:00 p.m.
Sanford Institute of Public Policy
2008
Kenan Distinguished Lecture in Ethics by Fiona Terry
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