The Clinical Research Experience in Tanzania
DGHI Receives Prestigious Award to Offer Research Fellowships to Medical Students
The Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) is one of six university-based programs to share a $5.2 million grant to offer the Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowships (ICRF) to medical students from Duke and other U.S.-based institutions. With funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, this marks the first time Duke University will offer the prestigious opportunity to students starting in the summer of 2013. DGHI will award up to three fellowships each year over the next four years, with the goal of producing future leaders of global health clinical research. The ICRF program supports students to conduct a 12-month clinical research project in a low- or middle-income country under the mentorship of Duke faculty.
*The deadline to apply for the Doris Duke opportunity is Tuesday, January 15, 2013.
*Duke medical students have multiple opportunities to engage in global health research. Apply to DGHI by October 19 to connect with a project.
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 Humanitarian Joseph Mamlin to Deliver Grand Rounds at Duke
Physician, humanitarian and global health leader Joseph Mamlin will deliver the AMPATH Grand Rounds lecture "Building Innovative Academic Global Health Partnerships in Western Kenya" at Duke University on Tuesday, October 23 at 5pm in Duke North Room 2002. The event is part of the AMPATH Consortium meeting hosted by the Duke Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health. Duke is one of the members of the AMPATH Consortium, working closely with faculty and students at Moi University on various research and educational programs.
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 Meet Postdoctoral Associate Dori Steinberg
Dori Steinberg is a Postdoctoral Associate at DGHI whose work focuses on obesity prevention and treatment. She studies how technology can impact people's behavior to control their weight. She primarily works with DGHI faculty member Gary Bennett and his team. Steinberg shares more on her background and experience, current research projects and hopes for her new role at DGHI in a Q&A.
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