Weekly News & Notes
from the Duke Global Health Institute
November 25, 2008
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| Greetings! |
Mark your
calendar for some intriguing events in the first week of December. Dr. Thomas Quinn, director for the Center for
Global Health at Johns
Hopkins University,
will present the final University Seminar on Global Health of the semester on December
3 at 4:30. His topic is Infectious
Diseases: Continued Threat to Global Health. If you were unable to attend
Dr. Prabhat Jha's informative session on the epidemic, we invite you to review
highlights of his University Seminar on Global Health on our website.
On December
1, at least three Duke professors will be involved in at least two celebrations
of World AIDS Day. Dr. Kate Whetten will
be interviewed at noon on WUNC's "The State of Things." That evening at 6:30, Dr. John Bartlett and
Dr. Kent Weinhold will participate with Jim Bunn, co-creator of World AIDS Day,
in recounting their "Stories
from 20 Years of the Epidemic."
We are
delighted to share with you that Duke's Academic Council has approved the Master
of Science in Global Health. The Duke Board of Trustees will consider the
new program at its December meeting. Students interested in applying should
contact Lisa Croucher at lisa.croucher@duke.edu.
The Graduate
School is currently accepting
applications for this program via the Graduate School web site at http://www.gradschool.duke.edu/admissions.
And, as
always, 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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| NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS |
Deadline for DGHI Summer Project
Applications
DGHI will
begin reviewing applications for summer projects on December 1. Information on
summer opportunities and application instructions available online.
Duke University Receives Gates Foundation Grant to Study HIV Resistance
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given Duke a two-year, $3 million grant to study resistance to HIV infection among people with hemophilia. The study will be conducted at the Center for Human Genome Variation at Duke's Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. Read more>>
Epidemic of Smoking-related Deaths
in India
Could Kill One Million Each Year
Prabhat
Jha, director of the Centre for Global Health Research at the University of
Toronto, spoke about the epidemic of smoking in India at the November 19
University Seminar on Global Health. Video highlights available online. Read
more>> First NIH Research Summit on The Science of Eliminating Health
Disparities
Several
Duke professors will participate in the first NIH Research Summit on "The
Science of Eliminating Health Disparities" December 16-18, 2008. Read
more>>
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| IN THE NEWS |
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Nov 21,
2008 Dr. Michael Merson is quoted in this Duke Chronicle article about the
Academic Council's approval of the Master in Science in Global Health at Duke.
Read Online
Nov 19,
2008 The Duke Global Health Institute is mentioned in this IndUS Business
Journal News article about Fuqua's expansion in India.
Read Online
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
December 1,
2008 » 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Geneen Auditorium, Fuqua School of Business,
Duke University
"Stories
from 20 Years of the AIDS Epidemic"
December 1,
2008 » Noon - 1 pm
Trent Hall, Room 124, Duke University
Choice
or Circumstance: Studying the Global Health System - Devi Sridhar, PhD, All
Souls College, Oxford
December 1,
2008 » 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 pm
Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room
Respecting
the Complexity of Translational Science
December 1,
2008 » 9:30 AM - 3:00 pm
Room 136, Tate-Turner-Kuralt
Building, UNC
The 10th
Annual UNC HIV/AIDS Symposium
December 3,
2008 » 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 pm
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 pm
Perkins 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 pm
John Hope
Franklin Center
- University Seminar on Global Health
Tom
Quinn, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health - Infectious Diseases:
Continuous Threats to Global Health
December 6, 2008 » 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
William and Ida Friday
Center, Chapel Hill
"What
to Do About Health Disparities: Solutions and Strategies" -- sponsored by
National Black Nurses' Association
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| UPCOMING CONFERENCES
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January
25-28, 2009
Seventh
International Symposium on Invasive Salmonelloses in Kenya.
Registration deadline, December 10, 2008.
February
21, 2009
George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, is holding a strategic conference on
the Millennium Development Goals entitled, "The
Millennium Development Goals at the Turning-Point: What MUST be done to reach
the MDG Targets by 2015?"
March 8-12,
2009
14th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health
in Mumbai India.
April
15-18, 2009
The seventh biennial meeting of the International Association for the Study of
Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS), entitled "Contested Innocence - Sexual Agency in
Public and Private Space." This conference is co-hosted by the Institute
for Social Development Studies, the Consultation of Investment in Health Promotion,
and Hanoi Medical
University in Hanoi, Viet Nam.
April
18-19, 2009
Unite For Sight's conference
at Yale University convenes a committed vanguard
of thousands from more than 60 countries.
View more details on all upcoming national and international
conferences here..
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