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Greetings!
This week we're pleased to bring you stories and personal reflections from two global health medical residents and a graduate student. Read about the impact these trainees are having on women's health in Tanzania, Kenya and Haiti. The international conference of the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines will be hosted at Duke and UNC-CH October 8-10. Registration is free. Sign up today!
Don't forget to regularly check the DGHI calendar for a wide array of special events, lectures and conferences.
Until next week,
Geelea Seaford and Everyone at DGHI
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| New Global Health Residency Fellows Specialize in Women's Health
More than 300,000 pregnant women die each year from preventable causes because of little to no access to medical care. Twenty times that number, six million pregnant women, suffer from life-altering injuries every year. This fall, the
Worjoloh and Dainty join GHRP  | Duke Global Health Residency Program (GHRP) welcomes two clinicians specializing in obstetrics and gynecology whose passion is to improve those odds one life at a time.
OB/GYN physicians Erin Dainty and Ayaba Worjoloh chose the GHRP at Duke because of its dual focus on clinical work and research. The 18-24 month program, led by the Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health, provides clinicians with advanced global health education and clinical training, which involves up to 12 months of intensive clinical work and research in a resource- poor setting. To date, the GHRP has enrolled 11 global health residents and fellows, produced four graduates, three academic publications (with several more in progress), five scientific presentations, and three NIH/Fogarty research funding awards.
The heart of the program is both its cross-departmental participation and reach around the world, recognizing that complex global health problems are far-reaching and require a collaborative approach. Currently, the program is made up of seven specialty areas and has international training sites in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. Sites are being developed in Haiti, Rwanda, Nicaragua and Sri Lanka.
"Erin and Ayaba represent a growing number of post-graduate medical trainees who are committed to developing academic careers in global health," said Nathan Thielman, director of the Duke Global Health Residency Program and infectious disease physician at Duke. "We're particularly excited to engage clinicians in Women's Global Health who can address key clinical, educational, and societal issues contributing to high maternal morbidity and mortality rates in East Africa..."
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| Global Health Master's Student Leads New Safe Motherhood Initiative in Haiti
In response to an expressed need for more programs that address maternal mortality in rural Haiti, midwife and Duke Master of Science in Global Health student Marnie
FHM Safe Motherhood Initiative | Cooper-Priest is leading a small team that seeks to improve the prognosis for mothers and their newborns.
The Safe Motherhood Initiative will provide training to expectant mothers and midwives on a variety of topics related to maternal health. Cooper-Priest is working with DGHI member and physician David Walmer on the program through his nonprofit organization Family Health Ministries (FHM). The effort is focused in two communities: the southern coastal plains of Leogane and the rural mountain community of Fondwa.
The initiative grew out of FHM's advisory group made up of Haitian women. This summer, Cooper-Priest met with dozens of Haitian birth attendants and mothers in both communities to learn more about their concerns and cultural sensitivities. Additionally, DukeEngage students helped to map the health care facilities in the Leogane area that deliver babies and offer infant health care.
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| Engineering World Health Celebrates 2010 Summer Institute Successes
This was a remarkably successful year for the EWH Summer Institute. There were 51 participants in the program in 24 hospitals in Nicaragua, Honduras and
2010 EWH Summer Institute Participants. | Tanzania. During the summer program, students touched 742 pieces of equipment, returning to service 73% of the equipment they touched (543 pieces). Equipment ranged in complexity from stethoscopes to x-ray machines. At an estimated average new price of $2,000 per piece of equipment, students repaired nearly $1,086,000 worth of equipment in 2010. It would require approximately 6 40-foot containers from a typical US non-profit to ship as much working equipment as the students repaired this summer.
"Immersive, eye opening, enlightening, transformational," these are the words used by participants to describe their summer. Come find out more about their Summer Institute experiences on the EWH blog or check out the photos and videos taken over the summer. The application packet for the 2011 EWH Summer Institute will become available October 1.
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In the Media
- British Medical Journal: Anthony So Op-ed, "Globalisation and Antibiotic Resistance"
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Christina Meade | Faculty Research
HIV Risk Behavior in Drug Dependent Youth Seeking Treatment
DGHI member Christina Meade is the lead author of a new paper in this month's issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The study assessed the baseline rates of and changes in HIV drug and secual risk behavior as a function of gender and treatment in opioid-dependent youth. Meade found that overall, injection drug use and sexual activity decreased markedly, but the behaviors persisted. She concludes that risk reduction counseling may be necessary.
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