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| Geneva-based Fellowship Addresses Pressing Global Health Challenges
Next summer, Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy will bring the seventh cohort of Global Health Fellows (GHF) to Geneva. Designed to equip graduate students to join in the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other pressing
2010 GH Fellows | health challenges, the Global Health Fellows Program provides students with both an academic and experiential perspective on how intergovernmental institutions, public-private partnerships, and non-governmental organizations shape global health policy.
By combining internships and an intensive course on global health issues, the program is a unique opportunity to learn first-hand how global health policy is formulated and implemented. This past year, 19 graduate students drawn nationally and abroad from schools of public policy, public health, law and medicine participated in the summer experience.
"The Global Health Fellows program gave me an insider's look at the top levels of international health policy," said Aaron Stoertz, a Master of Science in Global Health student at DGHI, who worked as a human resources for health intern at the World Health Organization (WHO) last summer. "My internship allowed me to develop personal connections with leaders at the WHO colleagues that I will continue to collaborate with on publications as I develop my voice in global health. The GHF program has been a tremendous academic and career leap forward for me."
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| Traditional Chinese Medicine: a global trend, viable alternative to Western medicine
The use of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (TCAM) is being realized as a global phenomenon, says a public health researcher from the University of Oxford
Bodeker | who gave a lecture at DGHI's Global Health Exchange series last week. Gerard Bodeker, chair of Global Initiative for Traditional Systems of Health, shared his public health perspective on the globalization of TCAM as a way to prevent, diagnose and treat physical and mental illness. "What we realized is that our view of modern medicine is alternative medicine in many parts of the world, particularly in the East where we see lower incomes are linked with higher TCAM use," said Bodeker, also adjunct professor of epidemiology at Columbia University's School of Public Health, who presented health mapping data on TCAM use. "The WHO Global Atlas on Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicine was the first birds-eye view of herbal and traditional medicine use around the world."
Documenting TCAM's current trends in utilization, sectoral growth and policy, The WHO Global Atlas shows the majority of the world's population is using some form of traditional medicine on a regular basis, most often herbal medicines. Other WHO data shows 80% of populations in some Asian and African countries are shown to depend on traditional medicine for their primary health care.
As a result of its globalization, TCAM use has raised the public's awareness, influenced the agendas of medical researchers, regulators and economists and has resulted in increased public financing.
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| DGHI Professor Honored for Superior Mentorship of Duke Students in the Field
Sumedha Ariely, assistant professor of the practice of global health and formerly the DGHI student projects coordinator, is the first recipient of the DukeEngage Excellence in Mentoring Award. Over the past three years, Ariely has developed
Sumedha Ariely | DGHI's fieldwork program and provided global health and DukeEngage students with dedicated, quality mentoring.
The Excellence in Mentoring award is presented to a faculty or staff mentor who has demonstrated exceptional mentorship to DukeEngage independent project participants, and exceptional leadership and vision in promoting engagement within higher education. In the award letter, DukeEngage Executive Director Eric Mlyn writes, "You have mentored more students for DukeEngage than any other member of the Duke community. You bring to this work your deep knowledge of Global Health and an unwavering commitment to provide our students with the best possible field experience as well as a commitment to the communities they serve."
With the expectation that her students take responsibility for their own learning, Ariely required students to send weekly email messages answering specific questions about their projects, challenges, successes and plans for the coming week. More impressively, Ariely's commitment is evident by the time she spent preparing and mentoring students prior to arriving in the field, and sustained that level of engagement and communication with each student throughout the summer. Since DGHI began the fieldwork program three years ago, Ariely has seen an extraordinary response from students because they understand that her expectations are important and substantive for their growth as global health field researchers.
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Daniel Westreich | Faculty Research
DGHI Faculty Member Awarded Grant to Research HIV and Pregnancy
DGHI faculty member and epidemiologist Daniel Westreich has been awarded a three-year $980,124 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study the impact of pregnancy on response to highly-active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) among HIV positive women in South Africa. Westreich will examine the effect of pregnancy on immunologic responses to HAART, clinical (AIDS/death) responses to HAART, and to adherence to HAART and retention in care. The study will rely on high quality clinical data collected in the Themba Lethu Clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa, an urban antiretroviral therapy clinic associated with the Clinical HIV Research Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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