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Dozens of Student Organizations Energized for Largest Student-led Global Health Event of the Year
Tomorrow through April 5, hundreds of Duke students are expected to participate in the annual student-led Global Health Week. It is the largest collaborative event by Duke's global health student community, involving more than two dozen student organizations, including Duke Partnership for Service. This year's lineup includes an alumni panel, the launch of a new global health entrepreneurship initiative, information sessions on the new global health major and minor, a cancer walk, medical screenings, an opportunity to build water filters, a photo contest, jeopardy-style trivia and zumba on the quad. The activities will highlight a different theme each day, ranging from maternal and child health and preventive health to innovation, social justice and advocacy.
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 Daily Self-weighing Helps Study Participants Lose Weight
Collaboration by researchers at the Duke Global Health Institute and UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and has yielded good news about yet another tool in the weight-loss toolbox.
Duke Global Health Institute postdoctoral associate in the Obesity Prevention Program, Dori M. Steinberg, PhD, RD, a UNC Gillings School alumna, has found that a weight-loss approach including daily self-weighing, along with a weekly email that includes tailored feedback and lessons about nutrition and physical activity, could result in clinically meaningful weight loss. The study was published in the journal Obesity.
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 DGHI Welcomes Three Faculty
Deborah Jenson, professor of Romance Studies, joins DGHI as a global health faculty member. She co-directs the Duke Haiti Humanities Lab, focusing her work on the history of cholera in Haiti and the Caribbean, and mental health issues among survivors of the Haiti earthquake. Her other research areas focus on traumatic stress, cognition and culture and the ethnic identities of African slaves in 18th century Saint-Dominique.
Larry Park, joins DGHI as Adjunct Assistant Professor. He is based in the Department of Medicine at the Duke School of Medicine and the Infectious Diseases Division at the VA Medical Center. His work focuses on infectious disease epidemiology, occupational epidemiology and biomedical informatics. Park also teaches graduate epidemiology courses in the Master of Science in Global Health.
Justine Strand de Oliveira, joins DGHI as an affiliate. She is Vice Chair for Education for the Department of Community and Family Medicine. Her research and educational interests include the global health workforce, global health and women's health. Strand de Oliveira is a past president of the Physician Assistant Education Association and North Carolina Medical Society Foundation and serves on the Advisory Council for the North Carolina Center for Nursing.
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