Weekly News & Notes
from the Duke Global Health Institute
November 11, 2008
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| Greetings! |
If you were
not able to attend the University Seminar on Global Health
presentation by Ellen Piwoz, of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we
invite you to watch the video highlight on our website. Our fifth speaker in this series, Prabhat Jha, of the University of Toronto, will be speaking on "Smoking Mortality in India" on November 19. We hope you can attend. The final presentation in the seminar series will be with Tom Quinn, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, on December 3.
This coming week, we invite you to learn more about efforts to cure blindness at the Global Blindness Symposium on November 13. We are particularly delighted that Dr. Rao, president of the WHO Vision 2020 program, will be giving the keynote talk at noon on Nov. 13. Dr. Rao is an international authority on
blindness eradication programs and anchors
a panel of experts from four countries.
We also bring your attention to a panel of speakers presenting at Duke's 2008 Entrepreneurship Week. On November 19, from 2:30 - 4:00 pm, three social innovators in domestic and global healthcare delivery will lead a discussion on Breaking New Ground: Social Entrepreneurship in Healthcare Delivery. These are just some of the opportunities this newsletter highlights. 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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How Fast Will HIV Spread in China?: A Q&A With DGHI Member
Giovanna Merli
DGHI Member M. Giovanna Merli discovered demography after
receiving an undergraduate in Chinese studies and spending time in China. She now combines her passion of demography and
China in research on the spread of HIV. Read
more >> Undernutrition: A Neglected Global Health Priority
Watch video highlights of the University Seminar on Global Health presentation by Ellen Piwoz, of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Read more>> Duke Receives $2.1 Million from EWH
Duke University has been awarded a $2.1 Million award from Engineering World Health to run the Duke University - Engineering World Health (Duke-EWH) Summer Institute for the next five years. Dr. Robert Malkin, the director of Duke-EWH commented that "this award notice is a recognition of the excellent work Duke University students, mostly undergraduates, have been doing for the developing world over the last few years."
The Duke-EWH Summer Institute places science and engineering majors in developing world hospitals for eight weeks. Participants install medical equipment, train the staff to use the equipment they have, and repair broken medical equipment. In 2008, Duke-EWH Summer Institute participants placed more than $1,000,000 worth of medical equipment back into service.
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| SUMMER 2009 OPPORTUNITIES
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DGHI
Fieldwork Opportunities: Application Review Begins 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
- Community
and Maternal Health in Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania
- Carolina
for Kibera (CFK) in Nairobi,
Kenya
- DukeEngage-DGHI
Group Project: Healing and Change in Haiti in Leogane, Haiti
- Duke
in Thomassique in Thomassique,
Haiti
- Community
and Health Development in Naama,
Uganda
- Clinical
Work and Research in AIDS Clinic in Lome, Togo
- Microfinance
Investment Fund in Multiple Countries, TBD
Visit the
Duke Global Health Institute website to
see current and upcoming opportunities for Summer 09. We will begin receiving Letter of Interest and
resume on Monday, December 1st to
gh-fieldwork@duke.edu. Early applicants will receive priority. 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: Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellows (ICRF) Program Research Opportunity at the Haiti-Cornell Site: Deadline Dec. 5, 2008
The Weill Cornell Medical College Division of International Health
and Infectious Diseases and Division of Health Policy invites
post-doctoral candidates with an interest in global health services and
operations research to apply for the Fogarty ICRF Program at the Haiti-Cornell site. Candidates with doctoral degrees in health
policy, health services research, or other public health disciplines
are particularly encouraged to apply.
NEW: Commonwealth Fund/Harvard Fellowship Program in Minority Health Policy: Deadline Jan. 2, 2009
This program is a one-year, full-time program designed to create physician-leaders who will pursue careers in minority heatlh and health policy.
NEW: National
Institutes of Health - Bioengineering and Obesity (R01, R21) -- AIDS
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is soliciting
applications that propose to develop and validate new and innovative
engineering approaches to address clinical problems related to energy balance,
intake, and expenditure. Expiration
Date: March 10, 2010.
NEW: Translating
Basic Behavioral Science Discoveries into Interventions to Reduce Obesity:
Deadline Dec 16
Many groups are working together to solicit cooperative
agreement (U01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to
translate findings from basic research on human behavior into more effective
clinical, community, and population interventions to reduce obesity and improve
obesity-related behaviors.
NEW:Call
for Nominations for the 2009 Jefferson Science Fellows program
The Jefferson Science Fellows program establishes a new
model for engaging the American academic science, technology, and engineering communities
in the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy. Jefferson
Science Fellows will spend one year at the U.S. Department of State in Washington,
D.C., and may periodically travel to U.S.
foreign embassies and/or missions for extended stays. Deadline November 26,
2008
NEW: Behavioral
and Social Research on Disasters and Health (R21)
The NIH is soliciting proposals to stimulate research in the
behavioral and social sciences on the consequences of natural and man-made
disasters for the health of children, the elderly, and vulnerable groups, with
an ultimate goal of preventing or mitigating harmful consequences.
NEW: A.G.S.
Invites Applications for Jahnigen Career Development Awards Program: Deadline:
Dec. 9, 2008
The Dennis W. Jahnigen Career Development Awards Program provides
funding to junior faculty in the specialties of anesthesiology, emergency
medicine, general surgery, gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopaedic surgery,
otolaryngology, physical medicine and re-habilitation, thoracic surgery, and
urology. The award is intended to allow individuals to initiate and ultimately
sustain a career in research and education in the geriatrics aspects of his/her
discipline.
Other Approaching Deadlines:
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
Summer
2009 Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program for College Seniors:
Deadline Dec. 12, 2008
Applications
for Clinton Global Initiative University (Feb 2009) due Dec. 12, 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
2009
NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program Deadline Dec. 17, 2008
2009
Director's New Innovator Award Program, Deadline Jan. 15, 2009
Mabelle
Arole Fellowship, Deadline Jan. 19, 2009
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 |
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| ONLINE RESOURCE
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http://www.who.int/globalatlas/default.asp
This interactive map allows you to choose diseases and
problems that might affect a country and the map adds layers. You can zoom in on layers and specifically
see how these problems affect a certain area or compare the area to different
regions of the world.
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
November 11,
2008 » 4:00 p.m.The Nasher
Museum of Art at Duke University,
Lecture Hall
Fourth
Annual Matthews Lecture: Search for the Origin of Adaptive Immunity
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
The
Lilly Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Partnership: A Case Study
November 12,
2008 » 1:00 p.m. (Sanford
03) and 5:45 p.m. (Rubenstein 151)Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University
United
Nations Employment Information Sessions for US Citizens
November 13,
2008Searle
Center - co-sponsored by the Duke Eye
Center
Global Blindness Symposium: Integrated Approaches to a Cure
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 15,
2008 » 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.UNC Chapel Hill
Visualizing
Human Rights
November 17,
2008 » 2:00 p.m.Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Education Center
Unimagined
Community: Sex, Networks and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa
November 17,
2008 » Noon - 1:00 pmDuke University,
Friedl Hall Room 225
"The
Appearance of Progress: Connecting Public Health and Race at the Mexican
Border, 1890-1903" - by John McKiernan Gonzalez
November 18,
2008 » 7 pmCoker Hall Room 201, UNC-Chapel Hill Campus
UNC
Biology Lecture by David Walmer, founder of Family Health Ministries
November 18,
2008 » 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Global Education
Center, Room 4003,
UNC-Chapel Hill
Carolina
Seminar on African Ecology and Social Process
November 18,
2008 » 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.Room 240, John
Hope Franklin
Center, Duke University
"Africa's
Place-in-the-World": James Ferguson and Achille Mbembe in Conversation
November 19,
2008 » 4:30 - 6:00 pmUniversity Seminar on Global HealthJohn Hope Franklin Center, Room 240, 2204 Erwin Road Prabhat Jha, University of Toronto: Smoking
Mortality in India
November 21,
2008 » 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.Searle Center
Diesel-exhaust
particles evoke secretion of matrix-metalloproteinase 1
(Fall 2008 ITEHP Seminar Series)
December 1,
2008 » 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room
Respecting
the Complexity of Translational Science
December 1,
2008 » 6:30 - 8:00 pmGeneen Auditorium, Fuqua School
of Business, Duke University
World
AIDS Day at Duke
December 3,
2008 » 4:30 - 6:00 pmJohn Hope
Franklin Center
- University Seminar on Global Health
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| UPCOMING CONFERENCES
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November 30 - December 3, 2008Hotel Nacional - Havana,
Cuba
The Medical Education for the 21st Century -
Teaching for Health Equity conference will bring together health professionals
and researchers in the fields of medical and health sciences education; public
health; and basic, clinical and social sciences to exchange the latest thinking
and construct new paradigms in medical and health sciences 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.
January 25-28, 2009
Kenya Medical Research
Institute
The goal of the Seventh
International Symposium on Invasive Slmonelloses is to provide updates on
research and public health agendas related to typhoid fever and other invasive
salmonelloses, and progress with vaccines for public health use. Latest
research results, trials of new vaccines, and issues of vaccine introduction
will be presented.
View all upcoming national and international
conferences here..
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