Duke Undergrads Contribute to Global Health
From Sri Lanka and Tanzania to India and North Carolina, Duke students are doing meaningful global health fieldwork and learning while giving back to the communities they serve.Through DGHI's Student Research Training (SRT) Program, students work with faculty mentors to develop a project at one of seven partner locations. The program prepares students to make the world their classroom, develop research skills and contribute to global health.
Are you a second- or third-year global health certificate student? Apply to the SRT program today for fieldwork in summer 2013. The deadline is Monday, October 8.
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 Duke Partners with Pakistani Organization to Launch Breakthrough Study in Maternal and Child Health
The Human Development Research Foundation-Pakistan and researchers at Duke have launched a breakthrough study that explores whether and how a depression treatment program for new mothers can positively impact child health years later. The study is funded by a $1 million grant from Grand Challenges. Led at Duke by psychiatry and global health faculty member Joanna (Asia) Maselko, this is DGHI's first large-scale project launch in Pakistan.
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 Genetic Testing is Cost-effective for Identifying Health Risks Associated with Epilepsy
DGHI faculty member Eric Finkelstein, and colleagues at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore have published new research showing the cost-effectiveness of genetic testing to identify certain health risks associated with epilepsy. These findings are informing Singaporean government guidelines on the use of certain epilepsy drugs, which have been linked to potentially-fatal diseases like Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis.
Finkelstein will speak at DGHI on Monday, Sept. 24 at 12 pm on advances in health economics research. He is deputy director for the Duke-NUS Health Services and Systems Research Program.
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