Weekly News & Notes
from the Duke Global Health Institute
December 2, 2008
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| Greetings! |
DGHI is pleased to welcome its newest member, Christina
S. Meade, who joined Duke on December 1 as an assistant professor in the
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Duke faculty and researchers actively celebrated
the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day on December 1. Dr.
Kathryn Whetten, DGHI member and director of the Duke
Center for Health Policy, conducted two
interviews with local radio stations to discuss HIV/AIDS in the Deep South and her work with AIDS orphans.
Later this week, we invite you to join us for
the latest speaker in the University
Seminar on Global Health series, Tom Quinn, director of the Center for
Global Health at Johns
Hopkins University,
on Wednesday, December 3 at 4:30 pm at the John Hope Franklin Center Room 240.
DGHI News and Notes will be on hiatus during the
month of December and will return January 6, 2009. From everyone at the
Duke Global Health Institute, we wish you and your family good health and
happiness in the New Year.
Please send your comments and news items to
Geelea Seaford, Assistant Director of External Relations (gseaford@duke.edu).
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DGHI Welcomes Christina Meade
The Duke
Global Health Institute (DGHI) welcomes its newest member, Christina S. Meade,
PhD. Meade joined Duke on December 1, 2008 as an assistant professor in the
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Read
more >>
Coping with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania
This article
describes Dr. Whetten's work in Moshi,
Tanzania
regarding HIV/AIDS. It discusses
problems with adherence, and the new problem of HIV/AIDS affected more and more
poor populations. Read
more >>
Duke Celebrates World AIDS Day
1) The Lancet published stories regarding
the past twenty years of an epidemic, including a correspondence by Michael
Merson and international colleagues which calls for scaling up combination
efforts scaling up a combination of efforts to prevent HIV. Read
more >>
2) In
recognition of World AIDS Day, WUNC's "The State of Things" host Frank Stasio
talks with Dr. Kathryn Whetten about the
rise of HIV in the Deep South and the stigmas
still attached to it. Listen
here >>
3) Dr. Whetten also spoke with Ernie
Hood, host of Radio In Vivo, about her interest in global health and research
on AIDS. Listen
here >>
4) The 20th World AIDS Day was capped
off by an event featuring the co-creator of World AIDS Day, Jim Bunn, and an
outstanding panel of AIDS experts, clinicians and advocates. Video of the event
will be available on the DGHI website in the coming weeks.
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RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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NEW: Ruth
L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral
Fellows Deadline Jan 7, 2009
The
National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards individual predoctoral research
training fellowships to promising applicants with the potential to become
productive, independent investigators in research fields relevant to the
missions of participating NIH Institutes and Centers.
Upcoming
Deadlines:
Compton Foundation, Population and Reproductive Health Deadline March 7, 2009
Funding
Opportunity: Translating Basic Behavioral Science Discoveries into
Interventions to Reduce Obesity: Deadline Dec 16
Funding
Opportunity: Behavioral and Social Research on Disasters and Health (R21)
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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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
December 3, 2008 » 4:30 - 6:00 pmJohn 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 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 6, 2008 » 11:00 am - 1:30 pmWilliam and Ida Friday Center,
Chapel Hill
"What
to Do About Health Disparities: Solutions and Strategies" -- sponsored by National Black Nurses' Association
December 9, 2008 » 5:30pm - Buffet Supper,
6:00pm - PresentationHealth Sciences Library, Room 527, UNC-Chapel Hill
Trent/Bullitt
Collaborative Speaker Series
December 9, 2008 » 5:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.John Hope
Franklin Center, Room 240
Trent
Center Colloquium Series: Conflicts of Conscience in the Health Professions: An
Ongoing Debate
January 14, 2009 » 4:30 - 6:00 pmJohn Hope
Franklin Center - University Seminar on
Global Health"Evolution, Obesity, and
Arthritis: Understanding human musculoskeletal health from an evolutionary
perspective"
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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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