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December 20, 2011
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 A Donor's Testimonial: Make it Count
What's YOUR Story?
Behind every gift to a charitable cause is a story. Tom and Meg Gorrie have dedicated their lives and careers to improving health. They found a new cause to support in the Duke Global Health Institute. As the chair of the DGHI Board of Advisors, Tom traveled with Meg to Tanzania this summer to see their contribution at work at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre. In this video, Tom Gorrie shares his reflections of the trip, and why it's important to support global health at Duke.
What's YOUR story? Make your gift count this holiday season by donating to a cause you are connected to and believe in. A gift that invests in the health of people worldwide, and in the young people who will become the leaders behind important global health progress in the years to come. CLICK ON IMAGE TO WATCH VIDEO 
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ABC News Concludes Global Health Series With 20/20 Special on Pregnancy, Childbirth around the World
In a special episode of 20/20, Diane Sawyer and a team of ABC News correspondents examine why so many women are dying during pregnancy and childbirth around the world, and the simple solutions that are saving lives.
"Giving Life: A Risky Proposition" reports on challenges facing mothers in developing countries, as well as on low-cost, low-tech solutions that can help save millions of lives.The eye-opening hour-long show aired on Friday, Dec. 16 and can be watched here in its entirety. Sawyer, Dr. Richard Besser and Deborah Roberts traveled the globe to shed light on the issue as part of ABC News' year-long global health series in partnership with the Duke Global Health Institute. Another highlight of the year-long series includes a $10k Maternal Health Challenge.Sawyer, Besser and Barbara Walters also helped produce a special video presentation in honor of DGHI's fifth anniversary, which showcases the Institute's work around the world to reduce health disparities and train future leaders in global health.
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John Crump Named Adjunct Associate Professor at DGHI
John Crump, an infectious diseases specialist and faculty member who has served as research site director for DGHI's collaboration with Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in Moshi, Tanzania since 2007, has taken on a new adjunct professorship role at the Institute.
Crump's role is in addition to his appointment as the McKinlay Chair of Global Health at the University of Otago, effective December 2011.
In his role as Adjunct Associate Professor, Crump will continue to manage research projects based at DGHI, which includes a study on zoonotic bacterial diseases.
The majority of his work focuses on infectious diseases in resource-poor settings, such as the causes of fever in East Africa, animal-associated infections, laboratory services in resource-poor areas, and HIV prevention, treatment and care.
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Capturing, Extending Learning Through Mobile Technology
By Duke News
When Duke professor David Boyd visited China for two weeks this fall, multimedia recording technology allowed him to continue teaching his students from halfway around the world.
Students in his "Vulnerable Populations and Global Health" class used video capture technology to record their group presentations on AIDS in Africa for Boyd, who traveled to several  | Watch video
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Chinese cities to meet with international partners and research collaborators. "He watched these student presentations from his hotel room in China and left time-stamped critiques for his students about the content and delivery style of their presentations," said Marc Sperber, an educational technologies consultant with the Duke Global Health Institute. 
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DGHI Researcher Studies Health, Population and the Environment
Printed in SSRI's GIST from the Mill, Page 5
Ever since he was a child, William Pan has had a penchant for understanding environmental changes. During annual family trips to the Boundary Waters, a scenic stretch of wilderness straddling the United States' border with
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Canada, he witnessed increasing encroachment of people living and working in his beloved vacation spot, cutting down the forest and building up recreation areas. Pan always wondered not only how and why these changes occur, but also whether these changes might affect the people and animals inhabiting the area.
Today, Pan has focused his career on understanding the dynamics of environmental change, population growth and human health. That work has taken him far from his native Minnesota to the Amazon, where he uses tools from biostatistics, mathematical demography and geography to study land use change, malaria, dengue and chronic disease, and human migration and fertility. As he sees it, the number of people on earth can have a huge impact on practically every aspect of life, from the economy to the environment to health.
"Drivers of environmental change-climate change, land use and deforestation-can be broadly separated into two schools of thought," said Pan, who joined Duke this summer as an assistant professor of global environmental health. "One focuses on economic growth and policies (or governance). The other focuses on the people-considering population to be the main moderator of environmental change. That's where I fall. Because even just a small percent change in fertility can affect the composition and size of a population 10 years from now, and in turn that population can affect everything from how people get jobs to how we distribute resources."
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