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Greetings!
A couple of weeks ago, DGHI hosted a delegation of leaders from Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in Moshi, Tanzania for a week-long visit to Duke. Today we bring you an interview by KCMC Executive Director Moshi Ntabaye in which he discusses the partnership with Duke and his hopes for creating a new model for medical education throughout East Africa. Don't miss it!
Also, we're pleased to bring you the latest research from another important, long-standing partnership with New Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. In 2007, Duke Neurosurgeon Michael Haglund began taking surplus medical equipment to the hospital. Research shows his efforts are paying off. See the full story below.
Until next week,
Geelea Seaford and Everyone at DGHI
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KCMC-Duke Collaboration Enhances Medical Education in Tanzania
A delegation from Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre visited Duke last month with the aim of continuing discussions with their Duke counterparts on how to best move forward in medical education curriculum development, clinical research, library resources, technology and communications and innovative teaching methodologies. KCMC, in partnership with the Duke Global Health Institute, is working to strengthen medical education in Tanzania, where there is a major shortage of trained medical doctors and researchers. The five-year $10M project expands DGHI's decade-long partnership. In this video, learn more about the KCMC visit to Duke, the long-standing institutional collaboration and the recently awarded grant from PEPFAR, NIH and the US Health Resources and Services Administration.  | | Click image to watch video |
Also, see photos from the visit and a blog post by Patricia Bartlett.
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Research Shows Duke-supported Neurosurgery Unit in Uganda Has Promise
Four years after neurosurgeon and DGHI affiliate Michael Haglund delivered the first of three shipments of surgical equipment to Kampala's New Mulago Hospital, new evidence shows the influx of technology coupled with an advanced training program for Ugandan health care  providers has resulted in increased surgical capacity in the country.
in the World Journal of Surgery in April, Haglund and his team found that in two years, the number of neurosurgical cases nearly tripled at New Mulago Hospital. Ugandan trained neurosurgeons saw more patients, performed more complex surgeries and increased overall productivity. The data shows a 180 percent increase in the number and complexity of surgeries performed, and this was maintained when there was no Duke presence on-site. The utilization of operating rooms also doubled during this time despite no change in the number of hospital admissions.
"This is the first time, to our knowledge, that this kind of data is available for a short-term training program combined with a significant technology influx in East Africa," said Haglund, lead author of the study and professor of surgery and neurobiology at the Duke University Medical Center. "Our results show the lasting value of twinning two health systems with the successful transfer of skills and technology."
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DGHI Awards Travel Grants to Duke Faculty
DGHI is pleased to announce the recipients of three new travel grants to help foster global health research in  Indonesia, Vietnam and Ethiopia. As part of the DGHI Small International Travel Grant Program, the Institute biannually awards Duke faculty up to $5,000 to support travel to a low- or middle-income country with the goal of facilitating new collaborations in global health research. The newest grant recipients are DGHI faculty Marc Jeuland, Economics PhD student Evan Peet and Duke physician Walter Lee.
Marc Jeuland, assistant professor of public policy and global health, will travel to Ethiopia to build research collaborations that explore the linkages between climate change, water resources and health...
Evan Peet, a third-year PhD student in economics, will estimate the demand for piped water in Central Java, Indonesia and determine the price that solves the social planner's problem...
Walter T. Lee, assistant professor in the Division of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, will travel to Vietnam to study health care service delivery, information, and leadership/governance with the long-term goal of developing infrastructure for clinical research that supports cost-effective and high quality health care...
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New Grants Awarded to DGHI/CHPIR Faculty
Gary Bennett, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience and global health, has been awarded a two-year $16,800 grant to collaborate on an innovative weight loss intervention for overweight/obese Chinese adults in Beijing. Bennett and his team will serve as a subcontractor for the grant awarded by The George Institute for Global Health. The study will investigate weight loss among adults in Beijing using new media strategies, such as text messaging to deliver study-related text messages.
Sara LeGrand and Susan Reif of Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research have been awarded a one-year $51,200 grant from CFAR for a study on collaborative HIV substance use treatment development. Researchers will use a Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach to gain a more thorough understanding of factors that affect decisions regarding substance use, motivation to change behaviors, and participation in substance abuse/mental health treatment among individuals with HIV/AIDS in the Charlotte, NC area.
Giovanna Merli of DGHI, Sanford School of Public Policy and the Duke Population Research Institute has been awarded a four-year $1,067,457 grant from NIH/NICHD which addresses efforts to obtain valid estimates of the prevalence of sexually transmitted disease infection and risky and preventive health behaviors among female sex workers in China with possible extensions to other hidden populations in different contexts. Merli and her research team, which includes Jim Moody of the Duke Department of Sociology, will work to improve the utility of Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS), an increasingly popular sampling method used to recruit samples of hidden populations, with data collected in China as part of various collaborative efforts with Ersheng Gao of Shanghai Fudan University, Sharon Weir and Gail Henderson of the Carolina Population Center and Xiangsheng Chen of Nanjing National Center for STD Control.
Upcoming Faculty Workshops:
Duke Transitions Away from Blackboard Learning Management System
Duke has chosen Sakai, an open-source collaboration and learning environment, as the successor to Blackboard for course and organizational site management. Beginning in fall 2012, Blackboard will no longer be available, and faculty are encouraged to attend a series of upcoming workshops in May on "Intro to Sakai" and "Getting Started." Questions? Contact Marc Sperber.
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