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Greetings!
It's summer which means you're more likely to see DGHI students and faculty in airports than on campus. Summer is a time when research collaborations are nurtured, students are working in communities around the world and new partnerships are formed. Keep up with our students in the field by subscribing to our blog, Global Health Dispatch.
Next week, DGHI faculty will co-host the annual Duke-Peking University Global Health Diploma program in Beijing, China. Led by Shenglan Tang, the popular diploma program is in its fourth year. Look for the announcement of another diploma program in Southeast Asia to begin later this summer.
Back on campus there's still plenty of activity. On June 4 at 5 pm, faculty and medical students will mix and mingle at the twice yearly "get-to-know-you" event. On June 5 at noon, DGHI will host a lecture by Xiaolin Wei, Assistant Professor of Public Health at Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Until next time,Geelea Seaford and Everyone at DGHI
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Gift to Support Global Health Student Research
Leslie and Harrison Bains P '97, P '00, have made a three-year pledge to support global health student research projects beginning this summer.  The Bains Family Research Grant was established at DGHI to support student undergraduate and graduate-level projects that provide value to communities and link classroom knowledge with service. A member of the Duke Global Health Institute's Board of Advisors and Managing Director at Citi Private Bank, Leslie Bains has been a longtime supporter of higher education. She also serves as Chair of the Duke Medicine Board of Visitors and Vice Chair of Sanford School Board of Visitors. The first student projects the grant will support are Duke medical student Toria Rendell's study of chagas disease in Bolivia and undergraduate Jessie Narloch's research on religion and health care in Ghana. "We are delighted to support the Duke Global Health Institute through student fieldwork," said Leslie Bains. "DGHI gives students the wonderful opportunity to do thoughtful research that has meaning for global health and the communities in which they work. Toria and Jessie are great examples of students who have developed projects on important topics and their work has the potential to inform and impact lives."  |
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Service Award Named in Honor of DGHI Advisor Dennis Clements
Honoring his legacy of dedication, leadership and social entrepreneurship, Duke's Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLACS) has created an outstanding service award in the name of DGHI Senior Advisor Dennis Clements. "The Dennis A. Clements Outstanding Service Award in Latin American & Caribbean Studies Award" will  be presented to Duke CLACS certificate students who exemplify his commitment to civic engagement.
Clements has served as director of the Center for the past four years. A Duke pediatrician with a passion for global health, Clements has also devoted 11 years to his Exploring Medicine program, which introduces Duke students to clinical work in underserved communities. Each year, he travels with his students to the central highlands of Honduras, where they deliver supplies and provide health care to hundreds of Hondurans who arrive by busloads. The team works out of a new clinic in Las Mercedes, an effort spearheaded by Clements that is fully-operational by Hondurans today.
"Dr. Clements has always championed our staff's professional development, provided experience, gone to bat for us with the administration, shown wisdom, humor, and creativity as a director," said Antonio Arce, assistant director of CLACS. "We felt this award was a great way to honor his legacy and service."
CLACS announced the new outstanding service award at the certificate ceremony attended by Clements earlier this month.
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Faculty, Students Awarded Funding for New Research
Orphan Social Networks to Improve Health Lynne Messer, assistant research professor of global health and a faculty member of the Duke Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research, was awarded a two-year $245,269 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for a study on the social networks of orphaned and abandoned youth as a means to understand their health well-being.
Enhancing Pharmaceutical Innovation
Anthony So, professor of the practice of public policy and global health, has been named a recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in health policy research. So's project, "Reengineering the Value Chain of Pharmaceutical Innovation," will analyze the 3Rs of pharmaceutical innovation - sharing resources, risks and rewards.
Awareness of State Laws on HIV
Kimberly Walker, associate director of the Duke Center of Health Policy and Inequalities Research, received a three-year $65,715 grant from the Medical College of Wisconsin for a two-year study on HIV laws in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.
Occupation as a Function of Malaria Transmission
Master of Science in Global Health student Justin Lana has been awarded a $1,500 Tinker Field Research Grant from the Duke Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies for his thesis research on malaria risk in Peru this summer.
Improving Public Health Supply Chains
Master of Science in Global Health student Madeline Boccuzzi was awarded $2,235 from the Duke University Center for International Studies for her thesis research in Lao People's Democratic Republic, which faces a unique set of supply chain challenges for HIV/AIDS and malaria.
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Duke-NUS Medical School Marks Second Graduation
The second class of Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS) students marked the completion of their four-year Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) training today. Mr. Heng Swee Keat, Singapore's Minister for Education, graced the school's pre-graduation celebration held in the auditorium of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music at the National University of Singapore. The distinguished Professor Sydney Brenner, Nobel Laureate in Medicine 2002, was the event's keynote speaker.
This cohort of Duke-NUS graduands will further receive training as postgraduate year one doctors who will provide clinical care as vital members of the healthcare team. They may be trained under the Residency Programmes in specialties such as Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedic Surgery, Otorhinolaryngology, Paediatrics and Psychiatry, among other fields.
Mr Heng Swee Keat, Minister for Education, said: "With its intensive focus on research and its unique feature of taking in graduate-entry students from a variety of academic backgrounds, but who share a common passion of serving others, Duke-NUS produces doctors with a diversity of insights and perspectives, and brings together different strengths and expertise to continually innovate and improve on the healthcare provision for Singaporeans."
Newly Discovered Breast Milk Antibodies Help Neutralize HIV
 Antibodies that help to stop the HIV virus have been found in breast milk. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center isolated the antibodies from immune cells called B cells in the breast milk of infected mothers in Malawi, and showed that the B cells in breast milk can generate neutralizing antibodies that may inhibit the virus that causes AIDS.
HIV-1 can be transmitted from mother to child via breastfeeding, posing a challenge for safe infant feeding practices in areas of high HIV-1 prevalence. But only one in 10 HIV-infected nursing mothers is known to pass the virus to their infants. "This is important work that seeks to understand what a vaccine must do to protect babies from mucosal transmission during breastfeeding," said Barton Haynes, M.D., co-author and a national leader in AIDS/HIV research, director of the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI), as well as DGHI faculty member and director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI). "The antibodies isolated are the first HIV antibodies isolated from breast milk that react with the HIV-1 envelope, and it important to understand how they work to attack HIV-1. |
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Global Health Opportunities
Job Opportunity
Joint Faculty Position in Global Cancer Research, Duke Cancer Institute and Duke Global Health Institute
Upcoming Conference
Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, June 20-22, Brazil
2012 International AIDS Conference, July 22-27, Washington, D.C.
APHA Annual Meeting, Oct. 27-31, San Francisco, CA
Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, Oct. 31-Nov. 3, Beijing, China
61st Annual ASTMH Conference, Nov. 11-15, Atlanta, GA
Faculty
Registration for ASTMH Conference this fall - discount before Sept. 25
FY13 NIDA Avant-Garde Award Program for HIV/AIDS Research (DP1) - due Jan. 17, 2013
Final Weeks to Register for NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration in Washington, D.C. - June 20-22, 2012
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