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Greetings!
Ever wanted to earn a degree in global health? You have only a few days left to apply for DGHI's interdisciplinary Master of Science in Global Health. Learn more here and apply by Sunday, Jan. 30.
Attention Duke Alums: Sign up today for A World Together: Duke and Global Development, an exploration of global challenges and the future of collaboration with developing countries, including a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps. Enjoy panels and lectures on world-changing trends, opportunities to explore visual and performing arts, and social events to help you reconnect with old friends as you make new ones. Register today!
Finally, I'd like to draw your attention to a new feature highlighting the global health news of the week, prepared as part of DGHI's partnership with ABC News. Don't miss the Weekly Global Health News Round Up available each Friday at saveone.net
Until next week,
Geelea Seaford and Everyone at DGHI
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Ugandan Training Program is Tool for Driving Organizational Change
A DGHI research project under way in the Kabarole District of Uganda is working to align health care with needs on the ground by filling gaps in health care management and leadership capacity. In next Monday's Global Health Exchange, Master of Science in Global Health (MSc-GH) student Aaron Stoertz will present data from his graduate thesis, which is partially based on the training initiative.
A fundamental aspect of the project is the partnership of Ugandan academic institutions and public and faith-based Ugandan health systems to design and deliver a leadership and management training course for mid-level health
 managers and hospital managers. Helping to inform the content of the week-long training course, DGHI conducted an in-depth needs assessment on local health needs and the challenges facing Ugandan health care facilities to deliver high-quality care.
During the lecture "Investing in People: Health System Strengthening Through Education," Stoertz will discuss the partnering process, the alignment of supply (schools of health management) and demand (health service delivery institutions), and he will present preliminary evidence suggesting that the partnership's new training tool may be effective for organizational change and improved health outcomes. Stoertz is a member of DGHI's research team leading the initiative, which received funding from the Robertson Foundation.
The lecture will also highlight Stoertz's work as a result of his internship at the World Health Organization in Geneva. He will address the need for scale-up of health education to effectively respond to population needs.
On Sunday, Stoertz successfully defended his MSc-GH thesis before a Duke committee on location in Uganda
- a first for DGHI. "I can think of no more fitting place to defend a global health thesis than on the site of a global health project," said Will Mitchell, Stoertz' thesis chairman and DGHI affiliate involved in the training program. "This is an outstanding case of Duke's engagement with the world, as part of the University's vision of creating knowledge in the service of society -- and, in turn, using our engagement with societies throughout the world to increase our own knowledge base."
For details on the upcoming Global Health Exchange, visit the DGHI calendar. Also, RSVP for the event on Facebook.
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USAID Leader to Share Vision for Post-earthquake Haiti at Annual Lecture
USAID's Russell Porter, who leads post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction efforts in Haiti will deliver a keynote address next week at Duke University.
 The event "USAID in Haiti: One Year After the Earthquake, A Vision for the Future," co-sponsored by the Office of Global and Community Health Initiatives in the School of Nursing and the Duke Global Health Institute, will take place on Thursday, February 3.
Since the earthquake a year ago, USAID has
provided more than $54 million in health assistance and has worked with various agencies to establish health clinics and utilize mobile health teams to provide basic health services to the communities in several provinces in Haiti.
Russell will address the challenges that still lie ahead for Haiti, the effects on health care and other sectors resulting from the earthquake, USAID's efforts in the recovery and more during his lecture.
The broad approach of the lecture will certainly appeal to a cross-section of the university and surrounding
communities.
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Photo Exhibit, Film Screening Focuses on International Child Labor
Duke Chapel is hosting Faces of Freedom, a traveling photo exhibition documenting the lives and working conditions of children employed in rug factories in India, Nepal and Pakistan, through Feb. 24.
In conjunction with the exhibition will be a screening of the documentary "Stolen Childhoods," which chronicles the stories of child laborers in eight different countries. The screening is at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 24, at the chapel.
"For 246 million children, life is nothing but work," said Len Morris, director of "Stolen Childhoods."
Suzanne Shanahan, associate director of Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Charles D. Thompson, education and curriculum director of Duke's Center for Documentary Studies, will lead a discussion of the film.
"The film asks us all to keep the promises the world community has already made: to provide universal education for all children, and to act against the poverty, profiteering and prejudice that produces this shameful waste of children's lives."
Also, learn about DGHI's research on child labor.
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 North Carolina Medical Journal Dedicates Issue to Global Health
The Duke Global Health Institute is featured in the newest edition of the North Carolina Medical Journal, which includes a policy forum on global health and highlights several North Carolina-based activities to improve health across the world. Commentaries from nonprofit agencies, academic institutions, and industry across the state reveal the extraordinary global reach of these activities, as well as their relevance to the health of North Carolinians. The publication features DGHI's analysis of the effects of the global health sector on North Carolina's economy as well as work from other members of the Triangle Global Health Consortium. Other topics discussed are the influence of health reform legislation, an update on the health of children across the state, smoking policies at fairs and drive-time proximity to stroke centers.
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