Duke Global Health Institute

Dhaka, Bangladesh: These women are recent graduates of BRAC's Ultrapoor program.

Weekly News and Notes
From the Duke Global Health Institute
 
Greetings!
 
While we're only a few weeks into the Spring semester, many students are thinking about their summer plans. This week we offer a range of global health-related internship and summer opportunities for students.

Also, we're featuring several new faculty research funding opportunities. You can find a more comprehensive listing of global health-related funding opportunities on the DGHI web site
    
On Wednesday we're excited to welcome Bob Black, chair of International Health at Johns Hopkins University, to the Duke University Seminar on Global Health Series at 4:30 pm at the John Hope Franklin Center. He'll be talking about Maternal and Child Mortality and Undernutrition. I hope to see you there.

Finally, thank you for the overwhelmingly positive feedback on the new DGHI newsletter format.  Keep your comments- positive or otherwise- coming.  Email me at gseaford@duke.edu.

Until next week,
Geelea Seaford and Everyone at DGHI
Thomas Gorrie, found at http://www.dukemedicine.org/Giving/recent_gifts/gorrie_giftGorrie Family Supports AIDS Research Partnership in Tanzania

For more than a decade, Duke has had a partnership with Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Moshi, Tanzania. Through this partnership, faculty  have conducted significant research on AIDS, tuberculosis, and other diseases; helped build a child-centered family care clinic; developed international laboratory standards; and improved the information technology infrastructure. That multidisciplinary partnership is what led Thomas Gorrie, PhD and his family to give $500,000 in operating support to Duke's work in Tanzania.  Read online >>


News and Announcements

DGHI has issued two requests for proposals in the areas of global obesity and global aging and population sciences.

For faculty who are interested in these topics but do not have international collaborators, DGHI might be able to help! We have established close ties with institutions in a number of countries, including:

Ghana; Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda; China; India; Indonesia; Singapore; Thailand;  Haiti; Jamaica; Mexico

If you are interested in collaborating with researchers in any of these institutions, contact Kelly Deal (681-7159 or kelly.deal@duke.edu); or John Bartlett (681-7760 or jab5@duke.edu)

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View our website for employment opportunities and other news.

Student Opportunities


Summer Global Health Internship Opportunities

The list of global health internships and fieldwork opportunities for this summer has been updated. Check this page often, as it is updated frequently.  

 

Post-Graduate Fellowship: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington

 
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Visit our website for more student opportunities.

Faculty Opportunities

February 3, 2009
Moshi, Tanzania: Boys in remote Maasai village
In This Issue
Gorrie Family Supports AIDS Research Partnership in Tanzania
News and Announcements
Student Opportunities
Faculty Opportunities
Upcoming Events
 
Upcoming Events


February 4, 2009 »
4:30 - 6:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center - Room 240, 2204 Erwin Road

University Seminar on Global Health
Robert Black, JHU
Maternal and Child Mortality and Undernutrition

 

February 5, 2009 »
11:00 AM
Koury Auditorium, Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill

Nobelist Muhammad Yunus Speaks of Creating a World Without Poverty

 

February 5, 2009 »
11:30-1 PM
307 Health Sciences Library

Identifying Funding Sources

 

February 18, 2009 » 5:30-7:30 PM

Race, Genetics and Health Seminar Series
David Goldstein
Race and Pharmacogenetics

 

February 19, 2009
4:30 - 6:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center - Room 240, 2204 Erwin Road

University Seminar on Global Health
Dalton Conley, NYU
Malaria and the Demographic Transition in Africa

 

February 20, 2009
Searle Conference Center

Symposium: Managing Toxic Risks for Global Health


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