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Greetings!
Today, we're highlighting our outstanding global health students. Watch a video featuring presenters at last night's annual event; and see the winner of the first annual Global Health Photo Contest below.
STUDENTS: 5 PM Friday is your last chance to apply for Winter Forum: PANDEMIC 2011. Join your friends for this entertaining and educational experience. Apply today!
Also, follow along during the second annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health conference Sept 19-22. Plenary sessions will be webcast live from Seattle, as well as daily blog entries, tweets and video diaries. Many of our DGHI colleagues will be presenting.
Until next week, Geelea Seaford and Everyone at DGHI
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Students Showcase Global Health Field Research at 3rd annual GH TRIPS
 More than 40 undergraduate, graduate and medical students gathered Monday night to present their summer research and hear from their peers as part of DGHI's third annual GH TRIPS event. The event, Global Health Transitions, Research, Insights, Presentations and Service, is meant to give students the opportunity to reflect on the challenges, lessons and realizations of doing global health field research - and how their experiences have shaped their world view or career path.
The event was attended by Duke President Richard Brodhead, and opening remarks were given by DGHI Founding Director Michael Merson and Assistant Professor of the Practice Sumi Ariely. In the main portion of the event, students split up into six small groups to present their research and answer questions about their projects. The event culminated with a fieldwork reflection session, led by DGHI Focus Program Director Sherryl Broverman.
"This is my favorite event of the year because we can hear about your summer experiences, what you learned, and see how service in the field influences the classroom, what we call service-learning," said Merson in his opening remarks to students. "This is the beginning of your careers of being great global health researchers, and we hope this experience will continue to prepare you for what will be a great global health career."
Click on the video above to hear from several students who attended the event, and how their field experiences have shaped their understanding of global health.
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DGHI Announces Winners of First Annual Fieldwork Contest
Of more than 50 photo submissions from two dozen Duke undergraduate and graduate students, the Duke Global Health Institute is proud to present the winners of its first annual Student Fieldwork Photo Contest.
The winning photos were submitted by three students who worked in Uganda and Kenya this summer. All contest entries were categorized based on three global health themes: partnership, education and change.
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The grand prize winner is junior Nancy Yang, who worked on a nutrition project in Naama, Uganda. In the photo, students at Naama Millennium eagerly show off their new water bottles that are part of a solar water disinfection project. The students' excitement to receive the plastic water bottles made clear the necessity, yet relative scarcity, of clean drinking water in Naama Village. Yang's photo also won in the "change" category.
In the "partnership" category, the winning photo came from Jori Sheade, where she is seen conducting height measurements on a child outside of his home in Kunya Village, Kenya.
In the "education" category, Darriel Harris had the winning photo of several Ugandan students who shared a light moment inside the classroom. In the photo, students exemplify a sense of pride as they laugh at a comment made by their peer during a class debate.
Click "read more" to see all the winning photos in, as well as a video slideshow of all the contest entries.
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University, Government and Philanthropic Leaders Converge in Seattle to Advance Global Health
The largest university-based global health conference ever held, more than 700 people will gather for the
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Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) annual conference being held at the University of Washington in Seattle on September 19-21 to discuss the critical role of universities in global health.
Participants from all of the major university-based global health programs in North America and around the world, including leaders from the Duke Global Health Institute. The theme of the 2010 CUGH annual meeting is "Transforming Global Health: The Interdisciplinary Power of Universities" and will look at the tremendous contributions that universities can and must make to expand the science base through interdisciplinary efforts in research, education and training, and service programs.
Speakers at the event include DGHI Founding Director Michael Merson, Duke Cardiovascular Medicine Fellow Jerry Bloomfield, DGHI Administrative Director Anne Bax, and DGHI Graduate and International Programs Coordinator Sarah Martin. DGHI Associate Director of Research John Bartlett will speak about building a global health research enterprise at Duke.
Follow the conference proceedings on the CUGH Blog, where you can subscribe to receive email updates in real-time, view photos from the event, and follow the conversation as it happens.
Click "read more" to see a list of speakers, the program schedule and others ways to stay connected during the conference.
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Faculty Research & Service
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DGHI Partner Family Health Ministries Featured in The Lancet
The work of David Walmer and Kathy Walmer is mentioned in The Lancet's recent article "Health-care dynamics in Haiti." The Walmers, who lead the nonprofit organization Family Health Ministries (FHM), applied for funding for a Leogane Family Health and Research Center, an $8.3 million project, to serve as a new teaching and research hospital in Haiti.
For more than 17 years, David Walmer has served people and communities throughout Haiti. Through FHM, he has helped improve the lives of thousands of Haitians by establishing a school and orphanage, public health clinics and cervical cancer education programs. One of his clinics in rural Haiti serves more than 400 patients each month.
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