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Greetings!
While the Duke men's and women's basketball teams both brought the ACC championship tournament trophy home this year, we're rooting for the Duke Global Health Case Competition Team to do the same. Join us in cheering on Duke's Global Health Team as they compete at Emory University's annual Case Competition event this weekend. Teams from 13 universities will spend an intense weekend developing innovative solutions for 21 st century global health challenges. Duke's team is multidisciplinary and includes undergrad and graduate students in engineering, divinity, medicine and global health. Go Duke!
Until next week,
Geelea Seaford and Everyone at DGHI
PS- For students who were enjoying Spring Break last week, don't miss the Reinventing Maternal Health Challenge from ABC News, DGHI and the Lemelson Foundation. $10K for the best idea. Submit your video entry today!
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Duke Global Health Fellows Highlight Burden of Chronic Disease at Kenyan Event
Duke Global Health Fellows Gerald Bloomfield and Thomas Holland delivered keynote addresses on the increasing burden of chronic disease at the 2011 General Assembly meeting of the Federation of African Medical Students' Associations.  Hosted by Moi University School of Medicine in Eldoret, Kenya, the annual meeting attracted more than 300 medical students from across the continent. Bloomfield and Holland, who are also Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellowship awardees, are currently performing research on chronic cardiovascular diseases in Kenya in conjunction with the NHLBI-funded AMPATH Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Disease Center of Excellence.
In 2010, chronic diseases accounted for 60 percent of all deaths globally. By 2030, seven in 10 deaths will be due to non-communicable diseases, most of which are chronic, and most of these deaths will be concentrated in low- and middle-income countries. In his keynote speech, Holland addressed the burden of chronic rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in sub-Saharan Africa and the importance of using a multi-pronged approach to pair aggressive identification and treatment of streptococcal pharyngitis with community-based screening and appropriate secondary prophylaxis for RHD. Bloomfield discussed HIV-related cardiovascular diseases, dispelling the false conception that complications of communicable and non-communicable chronic diseases are completely independent. 
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More Professional Skills Needed for Nurses in AIDS Care
A new commentary by Duke scholars calls attention to the need for further professional development among nurses to holistically care for AIDS patients in resource-limited settings. In the 15 countries of the Southern Africa  Development Community (SADC)
which comprise two-thirds of the global HIV burden, the authors argue that nurses must have the knowledge and core competencies essential to deliver effective HIV and AIDS prevention, care and treatment services. Published in the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care last month, the publication highlights this as a fundamental step to successfully addressing the AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa.
Co-authors of the publication include DGHI Affiliate and Associate Dean for Global and Community Health Initiatives at Duke Nursing School Dorothy Powell, Duke global health alumnus Christina Booth and current Duke global health certificate student Lisa Deng.
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Register Today for the North Carolina Global Health Case Competition
The North Carolina Global Health Case Competition
taking place April 6-9 will provide a unique venue for North Carolina's university students from multiple disciplines to
 develop innovative solutions for a specified global health problem. Open to graduate and undergraduate students from Duke, North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the case competition allows teams of four to six students to work through a real-life case scenario and develop succinct, strategic recommendations for improving a global health issue. Teams will have four days to work on  the case study to eventually compete against other universities by presenting their recommendations to a distinguished panel of judges.
The Global Health Case Competition is a great way to initiate dialogue and foster interdisciplinary approaches to global health on campus, as well as raise awareness. This competition also provides an opportunity to network with other students and global health professionals in North Carolina, while exploring some of the ethical, cultural, and economic issues surrounding global health policy logistics, development, and implementation. Register by Monday, March 28.
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Maternal Health is Focus of New Global Health Challenges
Submit your ideas by April 29, 2011
Reinventing Maternal Health:
ABC News' Be the Change: Save a Life and the Duke Global Health Institute, in partnership with The Lemelson Foundation, have issued a challenge for university students - undergraduate, graduates and professional students - who design emerging innovations in maternal health care. That could include finding ways to improve health care delivery or designing an inventive piece of technology for low-tech clinics and home delivery. The challenge encourages students from around the world to submit a five-minute video explaining their big idea for improving maternal health.
 Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development:
The USAID, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Government of Norway, Grand Challenges Canada and the World Bank call on the brightest minds across the globe to identify and scale up transformative prevention and treatment approaches for pregnant women and newborns in rural, low-resource settings around the time of birth. To accelerate substantial and sustainable progress against maternal and newborn deaths and stillbirths at the community level, we need to harness the collective imagination and ingenuity of experts across a broad range of disciplines and expertise. This challenge seeks innovative approaches to prevention and treatment across the following three areas: technology, service delivery and demand.
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