Where Are They Now?: Fulbright Scholar Studies Palliative Care in Malaysia
DGHI alumna Lisa Deng shares her experience as a Fulbright researcher and how her time at Duke prepared her for this next step.
"I was first exposed to palliative care during fieldwork in rural Uganda through the Duke Global Health Institute where I worked with a physician to assess the needs of terminally ill people in a community lacking treatment for life limiting diseases such as HIV/AIDS and cancer. Seeing firsthand the extreme and largely preventable human suffering, I became interested in efforts to support people facing the end of their life in resource-limited settings. After graduating from Duke in 2012, my interests in palliative care and global health brought me to Malaysia through the Fulbright Program where I am conducting qualitative research in four government hospitals across two states..."
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 The Triangle is a Hub for Global Health
The Research Triangle Park in North Carolina is a major hub for professionals, researchers, practitioners and clinicians who are dedicated to global health. Some have dubbed it the "Seattle of the South" because of the many influential global health organizations headquartered here. Located just minutes from Duke, DGHI makes it a priority to create career networking opportunities for current global health students at these organizations.
On Friday, seven Master of Science in Global Health students visited the FHI 360 headquarters in Durham. During the site visit, students learned about the nonprofit organization, met with researchers and heard about research that is currently under way.
* A MSc-GH student shares her FHI 360 site visit experience in "Reminded Why I'm Studying Global Health."
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 Whetten Releases Second Edition of Book on HIV in the South
The second edition of '''You're the First One I've Told': The New Faces of HIV in the South" by authors Kathryn Whetten and Brian Pence, which is now available for order, provides new details on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the South while bringing to life the stories and voices of people infected with the disease.
As HIV is explained within the context of individuals' life histories, beliefs, attitudes and current life situations, the book's latest edition incorporates new HIV research that gets to a deeper issue.
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