Weekly News & Notes
from the Duke Global Health Institute
November 4, 2008
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| Greetings! |
If you were
not able to attend the University Seminar on Global Health
presentations by Katia Koelle and Alun Lloyd on dengue fever on October 29, we
invite you to watch video highlights on our website. Our fourth speaker in this series, Ellen
Piwoz, of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, gave a fascinating
presentation on Undernutrition yesterday. We will have highlights of her talk
on our website soon.
This
newsletter also highlights a research update from our global health
postdoctoral fellow, Eve Puffer, and a recent publication by DGHI Member
Anthony So and collaborators on whether developing countries should model their
patent laws on US
experience.
November
brings ample opportunities for interdisciplinary learning about global health,
from the Bioengineering Applications for Global Health
conference starting on Thursday, Nov. 6, and the Global Blindness Symposium to be
held on November 13.
Please
continue reading for more information on opportunities and events in global
health. As always, if you have information you would like included in this
newsletter, please email marsha.green@duke.edu.
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Math and Mosquitoes
Katia
Koelle, an assistant professor of biology at Duke, and Alun Lloyd, an associate
professor of mathematics at North
Carolina State University, teamed up on October 29 to
present two different ways in which mathematics can inform how the biological
sciences address dengue fever - a mosquito-borne disease. Read more>>
The Reality Gap
Eve Puffer,
postdoctoral fellow in global health, delves into the gap between education
about HIV/AIDS and actual behavior among youth in Muhuru Bay, Kenya
Is Bayh-Dole Good for Developing Countries?DGHI Member
Anthony So, director of the Program on Global Health and Technology Access, and
colleagues from Duke and other universities, have published an article in PLoS Biology that questions the wisdom of
developing countries modeling their laws and policies regarding patenting of
publicly funded research on the U.S. experience following the passage of the
Bayh-Dole Act of 1980. Read more >>
NIDA Awards $6 Million to Duke for Substance Use Prevention
Center
The
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has awarded Duke University
more than $6 million over five years to involve researchers from multiple
disciplines in developing new approaches to substance use prevention. Principal
investigators for the Duke Transdicisplinary Prevention research Center are
Philip Costanzo, associate director of the Center for Child and Family Policy,
and DGHI Affiliate; and Kenneth Dodge, director of the CCFP. The new Duke TPRC will involve economists,
epidemiologists, geneticists, health researchers, neuropharmacologists,
neuroscientists, policy scholars, psychologists and sociologists in conducting
prevention-relevant research. Read more>>
The Academic Council will vote on a
Masters in Science and Global Health program on November 20, 2008
The
Chronicle published an article detailing the program and details about the
upcoming vote. Read
online>>
Jonathan
Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights Nominations Open, Deadline
January 15, 2009
he
Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights is bestowed annually to
a leading practitioner in health and human rights and comes with a substantial
financial reward to allow its recipients a measure of freedom to pursue their
work in the important area of global health and human rights. Read
more>
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IN THE NEWS |
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Dr. Duane
Gubler, of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical
School in Singapore, is quoted in this New
York Times article on "The War on Dengue Fever." Read Online
Duke Researchers discuss the racial disparity in treatment
of depression in patients with heart disease. Read Online
Susan Yaggy named "Tarheel of the Week" by The News &
Observer. Read Online
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| SUMMER 2009 OPPORTUNITIES
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DGHI
Fieldwork Opportunities: Deadline Monday, December 1
DGHI is
accepting applications for fieldwork projects for the 09-10 academic year and
summer 2009. The current list of projects includes:
-Nurses
Strengthening Our AIDS Response in Durham, NC and Africa
-Wake
County Human Service in Raleigh,
NC
-Comprehensive
Rural Health Project in Maharashtra,
India
-Care
Group, Hyderabad/Nagpur in Hyderabad/Nagpur, India
-Mental
Illness Education and Community Awareness Program in Moshi, Tanzania
-Carolina
for Kibera (CFK) in Nairobi,
Kenya
-DukeEngage-DGHI
Group Project: Healing and Change in Haiti in Leogane, Haiti
-Community
and Health Development in Naama, Uganda
-Microfinance
Investment Fund in Multiple Countries, TBD
Visit the
Duke Global Health Institute website to
see current and upcoming opportunities for Summer 09. Letter of Interest and
resume should be submitted by Monday Dec 1st to
gh-fieldwork@duke.edu. We would be happy to talk to
interested applicants and students are encouraged to apply to Duke Engage for
funding.
Engineering World Health Accepting
Applications for Summer 2009 Fieldwork
The Duke chapter of Engineering World Health is accepting applications for
fieldwork in Tanzania, Honduras and Nicaragua for the summer of 2009.
Participants do not need to be engineers. Read more >>
Hubert-Yeargan Center (HYC) for Global Health
Internship Opportunity in Philippines
HYC is again offering a Summer Internship Opportunity in the Philippines for a Duke student with
interest in education, global health or service. Duke undergraduates as well as
recent graduates are welcome to apply. Read more >>
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RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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NEW: The Duke Endowment Fellowship
The Duke
Endowment currently is accepting applications for its 2009-2011 Fellowship
program, a two-year, full-time position for those who recently have completed
undergraduate or graduate degrees and who aspire to be leaders in the
philanthropic and/or nonprofit sector. NEW: Dan David Scholarship Deadline March 31, 2009
The Dan
David Prize laureates annually donate twenty scholarships of US$15,000 each to
outstanding doctoral and post-doctoral students of exceptional promise in the
chosen fields.
NEW: International Research Collaboration on Alcohol and
Alcoholism Deadline February 5, 2009
Offered by
the National Institute of Health, the International Research Collaboration on
Alcohol and Alcoholism is to be used to foster international collaborations
between alcohol research investigators.
NEW: Pfizer Medical and Academic Partnership Grant Program
Deadline January 31, 2009
The Medical
and Academic Partnership Grant Program is offered by Pfizer. There are 15
MAP grant and award programs which provide financial support for fellows,
scholars, and host institutions in a wide range of therapeutic areas, health
literacy topics, and public health issues.
NEW: Mabelle Arole Fellowship, Deadline January 19, 2009
The Mabelle
Arole Fellowship 2009-2010 is offered by JSI Research and Training Institute,
Inc. They are calling for fellows to live and work in Jahmed, India
for one year before entering medical school. The fellows would work in a
hospital and on a project, depending on their interests.
NEW: 2009 NIH Director's Pioneeer Award Program Deadline
December 17, 2008
The 2009
NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program complements NIH's traditional,
investigator-initiated grant programs by supporting individual scientists of
exceptional creativity who propose pioneering and possibly transformative
approaches to addressing major biomedical or behavioral challenges.
NEW: 2009 Director's New Innovator Award Program, Deadline
January 15, 2009
The NIH
Director's New Innovator Awards Program was created in 2007 to support a small
number of new investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and
highly innovative new research approaches that have the potential to produce a
major impact on broad, important problems in biomedical and behavioral
research.
NEW: Summer 2009 Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program
for College Seniors: Deadline Dec. 12, 2008
The Henry
J. Kaiser Family Foundation is accepting
applications for the 2009 Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program.
This intensive summer program provides college students with an opportunity to
work on policy issues in a congressional office and to engage in original
health policy research and analysis under the guidance of Foundation research
staff
NEW: Applications for Clinton Global Initiative University
(Feb 2009) due December 12, 2008
CGI U's
second annual meeting will be held at the University
of Texas at Austin from February 13-15, 2009. Over a
thousand students will come together to make a difference both internationally
and locally.
Other
approaching deadlines:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Health Policy Fellows program:
Application Deadline Nov. 14, 2008
NIH/Fogarty International
Clinical Research Fellows (ICRF) Program:
Deadline: Dec. 5 2008
NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer
Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI):
Deadline Dec 9, 2008
Albert Schweitzer Fellowship:
Deadline for application Dec. 15, 2008
Integrating Biobehavioral and
Sociocultural Research to Prevent HIV Transmission and Infection
American Federation for Aging
Research Invites Applications for Research Grants:
Deadline: December 16, 2008
For a full
list of opportunities, visit the Funding
section of our Duke Global Health Institute website.
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| CALLS FOR ABSTRACTS & PROPOSALS |
NEW: The Global Health Council is
accepting abstracts from "New Investigators" (current or recent
students) from various disciplines to present their research at the annual
conference in Washington, DC in May.
The
submission deadline for
is December 1.
DGHI would like to encourage students and recent graduates from all academic units
at Duke to present. Students can apply for the DGHI conference presentation
grants to help fund their participation. Information
on the NIGH program is available on the Global
Health Council Website
NEW: Call for Abstracts: The Millennium Development Goals at
Turning Point
The
Millennium Development Goals at Turning Point: What MUST be done to reach the
MDG targets by 2015? Conference is being held at George Mason
University.
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| ONLINE RESOURCE
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Aids2031
recently announced the launch of its new website. aids2031 is a consortium of partners who come together to
look at what has been learned about the AIDS response as well as consider the
implications of the changing world around AIDS.
Visit their website for updates on the aids2031 initiative, related news
and blogs, a multi-media library including interviews, presentations and
papers, press materials and contacts.
View the
aids2031 website.
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
November 5,
2008 » 12:15 - 1:05 PMD- 236, College
of Veterinary Medicine, 4700 Hillsborough Road
Challenges to Health Care
Delivery in Developing Countries (Title Pending)
November 5,
2008 » 3:30 - 5:00 pmSanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room
Sulzberger Distinguished
Lecture Series "The Return of the Great Society? Fighting Poverty and
Promoting Income Mobility"
November 5-6,
2008William and Ida
Friday Center
for Continuing Education, UNC - Chapel Hill
Sustainable and Safe Drinking
Water in Developing and Developed Countries: Where Science Meets Policy
November 5,
2008Fuqua School
of Business, Duke University
2008 Duke MBA Health Care
Conference
November 6-7,
2008Pratt School
of Engineering, Duke University
Conference: Bioengineering
Applications to Address Global Health
November 7,
2008 » 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.Searle Center
Toxicity testing in the 21st
Century: Design for purpose
(Fall 2008
ITEHP Seminar Series)
November 12,
2008 » 12:15 - 1:05 PMD-236, College
of Veterinary Medicine, 4700 Hillsborough Street
Eliminating Blinding Trachoma
November 12,
2008 » 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.Lilly Classroom, Lilly Library East Campus
The Lilly Multi-Drug
Resistant Tuberculosis Partnership: A Case Study
November 13,
2008Searle
Center - co-sponsored by the Duke Eye
Center
Symposium: Addressing Global
Blindness
November 14,
2008 » 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.Searle Center
Long-term exposure to ambient
air pollution and increased mortality in lupus
(Fall 2008
ITEHP Seminar Series)
November 18,
2008 » 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.John Hope
Franklin Center
- Room 240
James Ferguson and Achille
Mbembe in Conversation: "Africa's Place-in-the-World"
November 19,
2008 » 4:30 - 6:00 pmJohn Hope
Franklin Center,
Room 240, 2204 Erwin Road.
Free parking is available across the street in the Pickens Lot
Prabhat Jha, University of
Toronto: Sex and Death: How to Avoid Mortality in India
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| UPCOMING CONFERENCES
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November 5-6, 2008
UNC Chapel Hill, NC
Sustainable and Safe Drinking Water in Developing and Developed
Countries: Where Science Meets Policy: This conference will discuss up to
date information about water resources world wide and show what can be done to
help solve the pressing challenges of providing a sustained supply of safe
drinking water to the world's population.
November 5-8, 2008
Hotel Nacional - Havana, Cuba
Medical Education for the 21st Century - Teaching for Health
Equity: This conference will bring together health professional and
researchers in the fields of medical and health sciences, education, public
health, and social sciences to exchange thoughts on education.
December 1-5, 2008
Merida, Mexico
International EcoHealth Forum 2008: This forum will promote
research, theory and practice internationally to consolidate the growing
community of researchers, policy-makers, and civil society representatives.
View all upcoming national and international
conferences here..
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