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Greetings!
Breaking News: President Brodhead is quarantined in China, pork products have been banned from local grocery stores, and the latest flu vaccine is no longer available to citizens over age 50 (unless you're Oprah). Don't panic! It's just some of the issues students deliberated, discussed and debated over the past 2.5 days at
Winter Forum: PANDEMIC 2011.
DGHI would like to thank the 110 Duke undergraduates and dozens of faculty and staff who enthusiastically participated in and contributed to this event.
Until next week,
Geelea Seaford and Everyone at DGHI
P.S. - It's our first Wednesday newsletter! But, don't get used to it. The service we use to send you this email experienced technical difficulties yesterday. We'll be back to our regular Tuesday distribution next week. |
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DGHI Simulates Infectious Disease Outbreak for 2nd Annual Winter Forum Event
As part of Winter Forum PANDEMIC 2011, more than 100 Duke undergraduate students from all corners of campus came together to bear on the key issues surrounding pandemics. The 3-day educational event sponsored by the Duke Global Health
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Institute and the Office of Undergraduate Education wrapped up last night and was marked by a fake disease outbreak in China, which students quickly learned involved key administrators at Duke.
The event kicked off on Sunday evening with a keynote address by U.S. Assistant Surgeon General Anne Schuchat and students soon began grappling with important questions related to emergency preparedness, surveillance, response, vaccine development and access, ethics and the role of the public and media. A myriad of technologies were used to inform and involve students, such as an interactive Wordpress blog, Flipcam videos, pre-recorded breaking news segments, lectures by pandemic experts in Beijing, China and Harvard via Cisco TelePresence on three 103-inch plasma displays, allowing for an immersive and life-like communications experience. Get a glimpse into PANDEMIC 2011 and hear from the students in this video. |
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DGHI to Offer New Global Health PhD Track
The Duke Global Health Institute announces the establishment of the Global Health Doctoral Scholars (GHDS) Program, the Institute's first program targeting Duke doctoral students who are interested in pursuing global health research in tandem with their primary discipline.
The GHDS program, set to begin in fall 2011, aims to foster dynamic intellectual exchange between Duke doctoral students and DGHI faculty. The program, which is a minimum commitment of nine months, enables students to work on a global health project with a faculty mentor, develop a global health dissertation and become involved in the DGHI's growing community. DGHI Doctoral Scholars may also apply for additional funding that supports the fieldwork component of his/her global health research in a low- or middle-income country.
"We are extremely excited at DGHI to be able to provide this support to doctoral students at Duke who are interested in global health," said Joanna (Asia) Maselko, program director. "We want to encourage doctoral students from across Duke to conduct important global health research, and we believe this program is the perfect complement to their training."
DGHI is currently accepting applications for the GHDS program. The deadline to apply is February 15, 2011.
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Haiti: One Year Later
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti. DGHI partner organization Family Health Ministries (FHM), which has worked primarily in women's health in Haiti for the past 17 years, has had to adjust its focus this past year to accommodate immediate relief needs in the three Haitian communities where they work.
FHM Chairman David Walmer, assistant professor of OB/GYN and Global Health, and FHM Executive Director Kathy Walmer, adjunct associate professor of Global Health, discuss the challenges they faced post-earthquake, how they responded and the progress they have been a part of over the past year.
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New Faculty
Aging and Health Expert Joins Duke, DGHI
The Duke Global Health Institute welcomes new faculty member Bei Wu, who has extensive experience conducting international research on aging and health. Wu joined Duke this month as associate professor of nursing and global health. She holds faculty memberships in the Duke University School of Nursing, the Duke Global Health Institute and the Center for the Study of Aging. In addition, she holds adjunct professor/senior fellow positions at three academic institutions in China. Wu's areas of research expertise include gerontology and global health.
New DGHI Affiliates
The Duke Global Health Institute also welcomes three new affiliate members, who collaborate with the Institute on global health-related projects.
- Deborah Jenson
- Adeyemi Olufolabi
- Anthony Roche
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