Weekly News & Notes
from the Duke Global Health Institute
August 26, 2008
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Greetings!
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Please join
the Duke Global Health Institute in welcoming new students back to campus. We
hope that many students - old and new - will choose to become more involved in
global health activities at Duke this year. In addition to welcoming new students, we are also
pleased to welcome back to campus John Bartlett, MD, who is
returning from Moshi, TZ to serve as the Associate Director of Research for the
Institute. He will rejoin us on September 2. In this newsletter, we draw your attention to Provost Peter
Lange's eloquent exposition of the global agenda of the University at the
graduate and professional student convocation, to a more personal account from
DGHI faculty member Jeff Wilkinson as he adjusts to the limitations poverty
forces upon the practice of women's reproductive health in Tanzania, and to our first University Seminar on Global
Health of the academic year on Sept. 3 at 4:30 pm with Mark Ottenweller, Global HIV/AIDS
Coordinator for HOPE Worldwide. If you have other news or
events you would like to share in this newsletter, please contact Marsha Green
at marsha.green@duke.edu.
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| NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
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'Move Out
of Your Intellectual and Cultural Comfort Zone'
Provost
Peter Lange's address to the graduate and professional student convocation on
August 20 focused on the international ambitions of Duke. Connect here to his
written remarks or to download the Duke itunes podcast of his talk.
The State
of Affairs of
Women's Health in Moshi
DGHI Member
Jeff Wilkinson blogs from Moshi about his involvement in testing Tanzanian
medical students. "It seemed somewhat surreal walking around the wards testing
medical students and residents on patient conditions and resource limitations
that are merely theoretical at Duke, but in your face here in Tanzania," he reports. Read more>>
Mark Your
Calendar for Mark Ottenweller
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. Read more>>
For more information about the entire University Seminar on Global Health Seminar series, contact Joelle Rogers at joelle.rogers@duke.edu or visit our website.
Students Invited for Informal Conversation with Dr. Ottenweller
As a part of the University Seminar on Global Health on September 3, the Duke Global Health Institute is
offering students the opportunity to meet Dr. Mark Ottenweller informally. If you are interested in
attending a small group discussion on Wednesday, September 3 from 1:30-2:30,
please contact Michael.g.russell@duke.edu to sign
up. Space is limited.
Career Workshop for Duke Seniors
Jennifer Philips, Assistant Director of the Career Center and Advisor for Health, Science and Research Careers is offering a workshop for seniors at Duke interested in health/medicine/life science careers. The workshop will be offered three times: 9/3 at 5:30 pm, 9/9 at 6 pm, and 9/29 at 12 pm. Registration required.
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| IN THE NEWS
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The Duke Chronicle featured Dr. Wei Jiang of Duke in "Prof and Group Extend Care for Quake Victims," an article about a Duke team traveling to China to provide volunteer psychiatric care to surivors of the earthquake in China. Read online>>
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| CALLS FOR ABSTRACTS & PROPOSALS
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NEW: Call for Abstracts: Medical Education for the 21st Centure - Teaching for Health Equity
Deadline
Sept. 15 for Conference to be held Nov 30-Dec 3 in Havana, Cuba Call
for Abstracts: CFAR Fall Scientific Retreat
Deadline August 29
Call
for Proposals: SSRI Faculty Fellows Seminar Application
Deadline Sept. 19
Call
for Abstracts: Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students
The Annual
Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students is inviting abstracts and
applications for travel awards for the November 5-8, 2008 conference in Orlando, Florida.
Deadline Sept. 5
Call
for Abstracts: Mobilizing Social Capital in a World with AIDS:
The Social
Drivers Group of the aids2031
will host a workshop in early February, 2009 for invited scholars and
practitioners to examine how factors like social capital, culture, and religion
are shaping and are shaped by the nature, locale, and momentum of the HIV and
AIDS pandemic. Deadline Sept. 30
Call
for Manuscripts: The Journal of World Health and Population
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RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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NEW: NIH/Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellows (ICRF)
Program: Deadline: Dec. 5 2008
This new
one year clinical research training program is open to persons of any country
in either post-residency clinical fellowships or in other health-related
post-doctoral programs. The ICRF Program supports one year of mentored clinical
research only in a developing country setting. Applicants for the fellowship
must develop a collaborative research proposal with an eligible institution
overseas. Thirty-six sites were pre-approved as suitable for ICRF in a
site competition completed in 2008, including the Duke-KCMC partnership in
Moshi, TZ. NEW: National Institutes of Health - Health Research with Diverse Populations
The
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute of Mental
Health (NIMH), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) invite
grant applications for biological, behavioral, social, addictive, and
mental health research related to the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, intersex, and other diverse populations.
NEW: National Institutes of Health - Research on the Economics of Diet, Activity, and Energy Balance
This Funding
Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to make funding
opportunities in the area of energy balance (i.e., the relationship
between diet, physical activity, and body composition) known to
researchers with expertise and experience in health economics, health
services, and econometric modeling (including multi-level analyses) who
otherwise might not be aware of the opportunity to apply their
disciplines and efforts collectively to this area of research.
Other Upcoming
Deadlines:
National
Science Foundation - International Research Fellowship Program:
Deadline:
Sep. 9, 2008
Common
Fund Small Awards: New Funding Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Activities at
Duke:
Deadline
Sept 15, 2008
Hartwell
Foundation - Individual Biomedical Research Awards:
Duke
Deadline: Sept. 29, 2008
National
Institute on Aging Research on Social Neuroscience of Aging.
LOI
Deadline Sept. 30, 2008
Fogarty
International Center Non-communicable Chronic Disease Research Training
Program:
Deadline
Sept. 28, 2008
Collaborative
Studies on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa.
Deadline Oct. 16, 2008
Duke-Durham
Partnered Approaches to Health Problems in Durham County:
Deadline
Nov. 7, 2008
International
Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA):
Deadline
December 16, 2008
Postdoc
and Undergraduate Programs at the Institut Pasteur in Paris:
Deadline December 2008
Visit our
website for our full list of funding opportunities for Global
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| ONLINE GLOBAL HEALTH RESOURCE
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IOM Global Health Topics
The Institute of Medicine's Global Health topic page
includes links to current projects, events, and reports concerning global
health. Specific studies advise on how to reduce the burden of disease and
disability in developing countries, illuminate emerging threats to
international and global health, and emphasize infectious disease.
Recent
projects include:
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Cancer
Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Forum on
Microbial Threats
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Joint
U.S.-Mexico Workshop on Childhood Obesity Prevention
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The U.S.
Commitment to Global Health
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| JOB OPPORTUNITIES
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DGHI
Employment Opportunities -- Faculty
DGHI Employement Opportunities -- Non-Faculty
Positions
Other
Positions of Interest at Duke
Other Positions in Global Health
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)
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| UPCOMING EVENTS
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August 29,
2008 » 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Searle Center - Fall 2008 ITEHP Seminar Series
Welcoming
Reception
September
3, 2008 » 4:30 - 6:00 pm
John Hope
Franklin Center - University Seminar on Global
Health
Mark
Ottenweller, Global HIV/AIDS Coordinator of HOPE Worldwide
Topic: Global HIV/AIDS
September
4, 2008 » 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Sanford
Institute - Rhodes Conference Room
What's
Inside the Black Box: The neurobiology of addiction
September
5, 2008 » 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Searle Center - Fall 2008 ITEHP Seminar Series
Personalized
Nutrition, Toxicology and Medicine: Do we have the tools?
September
10, 2008 » 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Duke University (West Campus) - Sanford Institute,
Rhodes Conference Room
Ten
Years after Welfare: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty September
18, 2008 » 5:00 p.m
Fleishman Commons, Terry Sanford institute of Public Policy
The 2008 Kenan Distinguished Lecture in Ethics
Fiona Terry: Doing Good and Doing Harm: The Paradox of Humanitarian Action
Visit the our Calendar page for other upcoming events.
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