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Weekly News and Notes
From the Duke Global Health Institute
Greetings!
As you know, DGHI has a full array of global health educational and fieldwork offerings. Deadlines are quickly approaching for these, including the Global Health Residency (Oct 19), summer fieldwork programs letters of interest (Nov 30), and Master of Science in Global Health (Jan 30). Read more about each below. Also, watch this space for the release of the course offerings for the 2010 Spring semester in coming weeks.
We're also pleased to bring you an article by DGHI Member and Associate Director for Research John A. Bartlett and John Shao on the successes and challenges of antiretroviral therapies in low- and middle-income countries published last week in The Lancet.
Until next week,
Geelea Seaford and everyone at DGHI |
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Duke Global Health Residency Program Expands in its Second Year
By Alyssa Zamora, Duke Global Health Institute
Interest in global health programs has grown sharply in the past several years, especially among medical students and young clinicians who want to improve health conditions in resource-poor communities around the world. The trend is taking shape at Duke, as the two-year-old Duke Global Health Residency Program introduces a new class of clinicians this fall.
The Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health (HYC) and the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) have selected five new global health residents and fellows to the program: Jerry Bloomfield, Erica Casey, Lauren Franz, Tom Holland and Ruchi Puri.
"We are seeing some of the brightest and best students who really want to engage in global health," said Dr. Nathan Thielman, director of the  Global Health Residency Program. "We have a much more socially-conscious group of medical students now, and that's translating over into residency training programs where they can use the education they received and help to address issues related to health disparities worldwide."
The Duke Global Health Residency Program (GHRP) is a comprehensive 18-24 month program that provides residents and fellows with advanced training and education to address health inequalities in resource-poor settings. The program includes at least nine months of research and clinical work at one of its international training sites, which primarily include: Moshi, Tanzania; Eldoret, Kenya; and Kampala, Uganda. International partner sites in Haiti, Nicaragua, Rwanda and Sri Lanka are under development.
It was the vision of Duke Health Affairs Chancellor Victor J. Dzau to create a multidisciplinary global health residency that involved a variety of departments. Since the program was created in 2007, GHRP departmental participation has expanded beyond Medicine, Neurosurgery, Ob/Gyn and Psychiatry to include Emergency Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Cardiology. Thielman said there is interest among other departments at Duke, and anticipates further departmental engagement in coming years. A growing interdisciplinary focus will allow residents and fellows to better address future needs in global health.
Casey, Holland and Puri each spent six weeks at their respective training sites this summer to begin clinical activities and set up mentored research projects related to their field. They are also currently enrolled in the Duke Global Health Institute's Master of Science in Global Health (MSc-GH) Program, which launched this year.
"The MSc-GH has been really great in terms of allowing me to feel bonded, not only to my fellow clinicians, but also others in the program. I think the intention of what we want to do with our lives is so wonderful and powerful, and it's been great to get to know everyone and learn beside them," said Puri, the new Global Health Obstetrics and Gynecology Resident. In January, she will return to Moshi, Tanzania where she will work under the mentorship of Duke Physician Jeff Wilkinson, who has developed a Women's Health Collaboration with Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center. "It's so exciting to now be at the point where I can make some tangible contributions in the communities where I serve."
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*The program is currently accepting applications for the 2010 Global Health Residency Class. Find out more information about the program, including qualifications and curriculum. The deadline to apply is Monday, October 19th.
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New and Noteworthy
DGHI in The Lancet:
"Successes, Challenges, and Limitations of Current Antiretroviral Therapy in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries"
Duke Global Health Institute Associate Director of Research John Bartlett and John F. Shao with Tumaini University in Moshi, Tanzania co-authored this article, which was published in the October 2009 issue of The Lancet.
As a result of the scale-up of antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes and substantial financial support worldwide, an increasing number of HIV-infected individuals in low-income and middle-income countries (LIMCs) now have access to ART. Despite this progress, important questions remain on the best use of ART and how patients should be maintained on a successful regimen.
This Review addresses some of the issues faced by those managing the epidemic in LMICs, including when to start treatment, choice of first-line ART, and when to switch regimens. Although the first priority must be continued expansion of access to ART, there should be a move towards starting ART earlier to treat individuals before they reach advanced stages of disease, to reduce early mortality, and to build support for improved monitoring of treatment failure. There is also a need for more randomised controlled studies to identify the long-term outcomes, cost-effectiveness of ART, and use of virological monitoring in LMICs.
Nobel Peace Prize winner, Microfinance Pioneer Muhammad Yunus to speak at Duke commencement
Nobel Peace Price winner Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi banker/economist and champion of the poor, will deliver the commencement address at Duke University on May 15, 2010.
Yunus is considered the father of microfinance, a concept he developed as an economics professor  that provides loans to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. In 1983, he founded the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, which helped poor people escape poverty by teaching them sound financial principles so they can help themselves and by providing loans on terms suitable to them.
In 2006, he and Grameen Bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below."
"Muhammad Yunus has shown himself to be a leader who has managed to translate visions into practical action for the benefit of millions of people, not only in Bangladesh, but also in many other countries," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a statement announcing the award. "Loans to poor people without any financial security had appeared to be an impossible idea."
In addition to the Nobel Peace Prize, President Barack Obama awarded Yunus the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor.
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Funding Opportunities
Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellows Program
The NIH/Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Support and Research Center at Vanderbilt University Institute for Global Health is pleased to announce a one-year clinical research training program for persons regardless of citizenship in either post-residency clinical fellowships or in other health-related postdoctoral programs. Read More >>
Nathan Shock Centers Of Excellence in Basic Biology of Aging (P30)
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites applications for support of Centers, known as Nathan Shock Centers of Excellence in Basic Biology of Aging. These Center grants will provide funding for research and training activities that belong within the areas supported by the Division of Aging Biology of the NIA. Read More >>
Assistant Professor of Global Environmental Health
Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and the Duke Global Health Institute have an opening for a tenure track assistant professor of global environmental health. Read More >>
Educational Opportunities
2010 GlaxoSmithKline Faculty Fellowships in Public Policy and Public Engagement
This program gives faculty the opportunity and resources to engage in public policy issues affecting North Carolina. Fellows remain at their home campuses for the duration of the Fellowship. Read more >> * * * For additional faculty opportunities, click here. |
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Fieldwork Opportunities
DGHI Fieldwork Opportunities and Grants
The Duke Global Health Institute is proud to announce openings for student fieldwork projects in the summer of 2010.
5PM on March 5th.
Education Opportunities
Duke Global Health Residency Program is Soliciting Applications
The Duke Global Health Residency Program is currently soliciting applications for enrollment beginning July 2010. Application is open to residents in Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Neurosurgery and Emergency Medicine. Application deadline is October 19, 2009. Read More >>
DGHI now accepting applications for the Fall 2010 class of the MSc-GH program
The Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), in collaboration with the Duke Graduate School, is currently accepting applications for the second cohort of the Master of Science in Global Health (MSc-GH) program, which will begin in August 2010. Read more>>
Young Leader of Social Change Fellow (Paid Position)
The Young Leader of Social Change Fellowship provides an outstanding recent college or public health graduate with an opportunity to engage in high impact front-line global health programs. You will work from our New Haven office that overlooks the Yale campus. Read more >>
2010 Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Summer Program
This intensive summer program provides college students with an opportunity to work on health policy issues in a congressional office and to engage in original health policy research and analysis under the guidance of foundation research staff. Read more>>
Samuel DuBois Cook Postdoctoral Fellowship
REGSS seeks to provide a context where scholars interested in examining the constructs of race, ethnicity, and gender from an interdisciplinary perspective can engage each other in dialogue and collaboration. Read more>>
Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Graduate Fellowship
This Graduate Fellowship Program is designed to engage its Fellows in the analytical process that informs U.S. science and technology policy. Fellows develop basic skills essential to working or participating in science policy at the federal, state, or local levels. Read more >>
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Upcoming Events
October 14, 2009 » 12:00 pm
SON Building Room 1026, 307 Trent Drive, Durham, NC
Nursing homes as complex adaptive systems: Improving care through management practices
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October 15, 2009 » 3:30 - 5:30 pm
Rubenstein Hall 200
SSRI/DuPRI~ Seminar Series: James Vaupel, Duke University
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October 17, 2009 » 1:15 - 3:30 pm
2505 Foxwood Drive, Chapel Hill
Stand Up Take Action with RESULTS
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October 20, 2009 » 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Duke University, Trent Hall, Room 124
Global Health Journal Club Meeting
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October 20, 2009 » 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Duke South Amphitheater (across from Cafeteria)
Treatment Update / Beyond the Forum
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