Weekly News and Notes
From the Duke Global Health Institute
Greetings!
Another busy week at the Duke Global Health Institute brings new announcements, new grant awards, and new affiliations with faculty across Duke's campus.
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Svati Shah will lead the global cardiovascular disease research initiative. Her appointment is the first step in developing a robust research portfolio in cardiovascular diseases, which are the number one cause of death globally with over 80% of the deaths occuring in low- and middle-income countries.
Finally, we're looking forward to tomorrow's visit from one of the world's leading human rights and health law experts, Lawrence Gostin from Georgetown University. I hope to see you at his public lecture at 4:30 at the John Hope Franklin Center.
Until Next Week,
Geelea Seaford and Everyone at DGHI |
|
Cardiovascular Disease Research Initiative Gets Boost 
Svati H. Shah, MD, MHS, has been tapped to lead the Institute's research and education efforts in India, which are currently focused in Delhi, Hyderabad and Kolkata. Shah is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology, Duke Department of Medicine.
(Cardiovascular disease is one of DGHI's six signature research intiatives. Read more)
As a part of the position, Shah will serve as the leader for cardiovascular diseases research at DGHI and lead a small faculty global cardiovascular diseases working group that will help guide the Institute's efforts.
"Svati's leadership of this group represents an outstanding opportunity to build upon her expertise in cardiovascular diseases, epidemiology and genetics," said John Bartlett, associate director for research, Duke Global Health Institute.
Shah will also teach an elective course in genetic epidemiology in the Masters of Science in Global Health.
Bloomfield Receives Fogarty Fellowship to Research Cardiovascular Disease in Kenya
 Gerald S. Bloomfield, MD, MPH, has been selected as a 2009 Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellow. Bloomfield is a Fellow in Cardiology at Duke in his second year. Before coming to Duke, he completed a Chief Residency in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins. "By moving to Eldoret, Jerry will be a pioneer in extending Duke's cardiovascular efforts to resource-limited settings," commented Bartlett. "His selection as a Fogarty International Clinical Scholar is recognition of his promise as an investigator." This summer Bloomfield will move with his wife and two young children to Eldoret in Western Kenya. As a Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellow, Bloomfield will spend one year working closely with a team of US researchers from Brown University, Indiana University and Duke and Kenyan researchers from Moi University. His project will attempt to describe the causes of heart failure in Western Kenya using echocardiograms, clinical assessments and analysis of serological markers of atherosclerosis.
Before starting his Cardiology training at Duke, Bloomfield worked in Kijabe Medical Centre in Kenya where he served as interim director of the Intensive Care Unit and participated in the training and education of medical students and residents. His academic interests are in the burgeoning epidemic of chronic heart disease and atherosclerosis in the developing world.
|
News and Announcements
Duke Global Health Institute Receives Rockefeller Grant
Duke Global Health Institute has been awarded a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to assess the health systems curricula of schools of public health, business, and public administration in developing countries. DGHI will also convene an expert international and intersectoral working group to steer the assessment and facilitate dissemination of the curricula. DGHI Members Kevin Schulman, MD, MBA, and Michael Merson, MD, are lead investigators on the grant, which builds upon previous research on the needs and demands for health systems experts in low and middle income countries. Read more >>
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: A Summary
This summary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 includes detailed information on exactly new research funds from NIH and the effect it will have on research. Read more >>
University Seminar on Global Health: Lawrence Gostin, "Survival Needs of the World's Least Healthy People"
DGHI is pleased to welcome Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown University to Duke Wednesday, March 4, as part of the University Seminar on Global Health series. Dr. Gostin is one of the world's leading authorities on human rights and health law. As director of Georgetown University's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, he will speak on the laws that shape and affect global health. Read more >>
|
Student Opportunities
THIS FRIDAY - March 5 - is the deadline for DGHI Summer Fieldwork and Research Grants. Duke students are eligible to apply for up to $5,000 in fieldwork and research grants. Funds may be used for fieldwork or research of relevance to global health, locally or internationally. Click here for details
Essay Competition: Innovation for the Health of All
Research Funding
National Science Foundation - Developing Global Scientists and Engineers
* * *
Visit our website for more student opportunities.
| |
|
|
|
March 4, 2009 »
4:30 - 6 pm
March 4, 2009 »
5-6:30 pm
Love Auditorium, LSRC
Provost Lecture Series:
Thomas Shapiro, Brandeis,
Poverty and Wealth Building
March 5, 2009 »
5-6:30 pm
Love Auditorium, LSRC
Provost Lecture Series:
Paul Kennedy
Measuring American Power in Today's Fractured World
April 1, 2009 »
4:30 - 6 pm
John Hope Franklin Center - Room 240,
University Seminar on Global Health
Speaker: Andrew Boulle, University of Cape Town
* * *
Click for more global health events |
Visit Us at:
-  YouTubeU
- or On the Web
| |
