Two PhD Students Named Global Health Scholars
Duke PhD students Sarah Diringer and Jenny Orgill from the Pratt School of Engineering and Nicholas School of the Environment respectively have been selected as Global Health Doctoral Scholars. Through the Duke Global Health Institute, the Global Health Doctoral Scholars program offers PhD students the opportunity to explore their work from other areas of study through the lens of addressing health disparities.
Diringer, a PhD student in civil and environmental engineering at the Pratt School, is working with Heileen Hsu-Kim and William Pan to study the impacts of mercury contamination from small-scale gold mining in the Madre de Dios Watershed of Peru. Orgill is a PhD student in environmental economics at the Nicholas School. Last year, she completed a Master of Public Policy at Duke during which time she implemented a household survey on drinking water quality, water treatment, storage and handling practices in rural Cambodia, under the direction of DGHI faculty member Marc Jeuland.
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 Doctoral Scholar Presents Fluorosis Research in Ethiopia
At the GeoGen2013 Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia last week, Global Health Doctoral Scholar Chris Paul shared new research on people's knowledge of dental fluorosis and water quality in the Ethiopian Rift. Paul is working with Duke faculty members Marc Jeuland and Erika Weinthal on the project that was first funded through seed grants from Provost Peter Lange's Problem-Focused Interdisciplinary Research-Scholarship Teams (PFIRST) program.
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 Biomedical Engineer Joins DGHI Faculty
DGHI welcomes Nirmala Ramanujam as a faculty member. Ramanujam is professor of biomedical engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering. Since coming to Duke in 2005, Ramanujam has developed a lab that is developing and applying innovative optical strategies and technologies for cancer screening in resource-limited settings, detecting residual disease during cancer surgery, and visualizing tumor hypoxia and metabolism in the context of cancer therapy and drug discovery.
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