Weekly News & Notes
from the Duke Global Health Institute
November 18, 2008
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| Greetings! |
November
has been a rich month for presentations on global health issues. This
newsletter highlights articles about the Biomedical Engineering conference held
at Duke Nov. 6-7, and the Global Blindness symposium held Nov. 13. Both conferences were videotaped, and we will
post the full contents on our website as soon as possible. This coming
week brings more opportunities to learn from national and international leaders
about efforts to reduce health disparities.
On
Wednesday November 19, as part of Duke's "Entrepreneurship Week," three social
innovators in domestic and global healthcare delivery will present "Breaking New Ground: Social Entrepreneurship in Healthcare Delivery." That same day, Prahbat Jha, the director of
the Centre for Global Health Research at the University of Toronto,
will present the fifth University Seminar on Global Health. His topic is
"Smoking Mortality in India."
Dr. Jha is currently leading a child and adult mortality study involving 15 million
people in India.
His recent paper in the NEJM is available here.
Looking
forward to December, we invite you to mark your calendars for a fascinating
evening of storytelling to commemorate the 20th anniversary of World
AIDS Day. Duke's Dr. John Bartlett
and Dr. Kent Weinhold will join Pape Gaye, president and CEO of Intrahealth,
and Jim Bunn, producer for Good Morning America and co-creator of World AIDS
Day for "Stories from 20 years of the epidemic." The event will take place
at the Geneen Auditorium of the Fuqua School of Business at 6:30 pm.
We hope
that you find other items of interest and opportunities in this newsletter. If
you have items you think should be included, please email marsha.green@duke.edu.
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The Burden of Blindness
Most of the
burden of blindness is in the developing world. How to provide proven treatments
for diseases and conditions that cause blindness to the people who need them was
the topic of the November 13 symposium at Duke, "Global Blindness: Integrated
Approaches to a Cure." The symposium was co-sponsored by the Duke Eye
Center and the Duke
Global Health Institute. Read
more >>
(Bio)Engineering solutions to health disparitiesAt the
Bioengineering Conference held November 6-7, attendees challenged common
assumptions and proposed solutions to
improve health care in developing countries. Read
more >>
Treating Third World Spine
InjuriesTeams of
students from the Pratt School of Engineering and across the campus will soon
compete in the annual Duke Start-Up Challenge, a school-year-long competition
that culminates in a $25,000 prize. Read
more >>
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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 accepting Letters 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 >>
Summer Fellowship in Austria for
Graduate Students in Natural and Social Sciences, Policy and Engineering:
Deadline Jan 19 2009
Each
summer, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) hosts
a selected group of graduate students, primarily doctoral, from around the world
in its Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP). Read
more >>
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| CALLS FOR ABSTRACTS & PROPOSALS |
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| ONLINE RESOURCE
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http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2008/np11/en/index.html
On October
27, 2008 WHO published an assessment of the global burden of disease. Drawing from extensive data, this study
features comparisons among many factors and presents the reader with a
comprehensive picture of the state of global health. With vast coverage of so many aspects of the
global burden of disease, this article is of interest to anyone involved in
global health.
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
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 pmJohn Hope
Franklin Center,
Room 240, 2204 Erwin Road.
University Seminar on Global Health
Prabhat
Jha, University of Toronto: Smoking
Mortality in India
November 19,
2008 » 4:30 pmSchiciano Auditorium, CIEMAS, Duke University
Science
Gets Personal: Prospective Health Care and the Individual
November 19,
2008 » 2:30 - 4:00 pmSauer Classroom, Fuqua School
of Business, Duke University
Breaking
New Ground: Social Entrepreneurship in Healthcare Delivery
November 20,
2008 » 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.Flowers 201
Connecting
the DukeEngage experience to academic possibilities: Independent Studies,
Research, Honors Thesis & More...
November 20,
2008 » 11:30 am - 12:30 pmLSRC Room A156, Duke University
Envisioning
a Global Environmental Health Network to Reduce the Burden of Disease
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)
November 21,
2008 » 12:00 p.m.Trent Center
Trent
Center's Work-in-Progress Seminar Series: Ethics and Epidemiology: Relatives
Versus Absolutes
November 24,
2008 » 5:30-7:00 PMTrent Hall Room 323B, Duke University
Information
Session: DukeEngage-DGHI Haiti project
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
December 3,
2008 » 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.Duke North Hospital Lecture Hall 2002
The
Estrogen Elixir: Women and Science in the Making and Unmaking of Hormone
Replacement Therapy
December 3,
2008 » 4:00 PMPerkins Library Rare Book Room, Duke University
INTENSELY
HUMAN: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War
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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