Weekly News & Notes
from the Duke Global Health Institute
September 2, 2008
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Greetings!
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We are delighted to welcome back to campus
today (Sept 3), Dr. John Bartlett, who returns from Tanzania to take up his role as
Associate Director of Research for the Duke Global Health Institute.
This newsletter also highlights two other new Duke faculty members who have
great interest in global health: Dr. Subhrendu
Pattanayak at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, and Dr. Augustus
John Rush at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical
School in Singapore.
We also welcome to campus this week Dr. Mark Ottenweller, Global AIDS Coordinator for
HOPE Worldwide who will give the first University Seminar on Global Health this year on Sept. 3 at 4:30. Dr. Ottenweller is the first of 10 exciting
speakers presenting at the year-long University Seminar on Global Health
series. If you have not already seen the
lineup, we invite you to visit our website for details at www.globalhealth.duke.edu/seminars.
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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John Bartlett Returns to Lead DGHI Research
Dr. John Bartlett returns from four years in Tanzania to lead the research
program at Duke Global Health Institute. 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>>
Sanford Welcomes Subhrendu
Pattanayak
The
Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy welcomes new faculty member Subhrendu
Pattanayak as associate professor of public policy and environmental economics.
Dr. Pattanayak's research interests include global environmental health
issues. Read more>>
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical
School Welcomes Augustus John Rush
Dr.
Augustus John rush has joined the Duke-NUS
Graduate Medical
School in Singapore as Vice Dean of Clinical
Sciences. He was previously professor
and vice chair in the department of clinical Sciences at University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center. Read more>>
Free Student
Membership to Global Health Council
Duke students are eligible to become Associate Professional Members of
the Global Health Council through DGHI's institutional membership. The Global
Health Council is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to saving
lives by improving health throughout the world.
Read more>>
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RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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NEW: National
Institutes of Health - Advancing Novel Science in Womens Health Research
(ANSWHR) (R03, R21)
Deadline: October 16, 2008
NEW: Funding
opportunity: Fogarty International Research Collaboration - Behavioral and Social
Sciences (FIRCA-BSS) Research Award
Deadline: September 9, 2008
NEW: Lloyd Foundation Provides Grants for HIV/AIDS Research
Deadline: December 15
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.
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 Health Research or
Education.
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| CALLS FOR ABSTRACTS & PROPOSALS
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Call
for Abstracts: Medical Education for the 21st Century - Teaching for Health
Equity
Deadline Sept. 15 for Conference to be held Nov 30-Dec 3 in Havana, Cuba
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
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| ONLINE GLOBAL HEALTH RESOURCE
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WHO Global Health Atlas
The
World Health Organization's Communicable Disease Global Atlas brings together
for analysis and comparison standardized data and statistics for infectious
diseases at country, regional, and global levels.
The
atlas allows users to browse, view, query, and search the contents of the WHO's
Communicable Disease global database and output the data in reports, charts and
maps. The site also provides access to
the public domain static maps and related documents, publications and
statistics on infectious diseases.
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| JOB OPPORTUNITIES
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DGHI
Employment Opportunities -- Faculty
DGHI Employment 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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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
"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 » 2:00 - 3:30 pm
McGabren
Greenberg Building, Room 2301, UNC Campus
Dr.
Elizabeth Pisani, author of Wisdom of Whores
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 10-14, 2008 » 8:00 p.m.
Kenan Theatre, UNC
In
the Continuum, performed by the Playmakers Repertory Company
Followed by a community discussion about HIV/AIDS
September 12, 2008 » 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Searle Center
Distinct
functions of POT1 complexes at the telomere
(Fall 2008 ITEHP Seminar Series)
September 16, 2008 » 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Sanford Institute Lobby
"Love
after Loss" - Sanford Inst. of Public Policy Exhibit Opening
September 18, 2008 » 5:00 p.m.
Sanford Institute of Public Policy - The 2008
Kenan Distinguished Lecture in Ethics
"Doing
Good and Doing Harm: The Paradox of Humanitarian Action"
Lecture in Ethics by Fiona Terry
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