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Three Students Awarded Grants for Summer Fieldwork in Africa
The Duke Global Health Institute is pleased to announce undergraduate students Carlton Lawrence, Nash Mepukori and Samantha Truong have been awarded grants to support global health fieldwork in Uganda and Togo this summer. The three undergraduates will join more than 60 other Duke students, from undergraduates to postdoctoral trainees, who will be conducting global health fieldwork and research around the globe this summer and fall.
Carlton Lawrence, a sophomore pursuing a major in cultural anthropology, has received a grant from the Paul Farmer Global Health Fund to uncover ethical dilemmas faced by community advisory boards in Kampala, Uganda. Nash Mepukori, a freshman and Baldwin Scholar who plans to pursue the global health major in the Fall, was awarded funding from the Bains Family Research Grant to study the effects of cultural practices on the diet of pregnant women in Lome, Togo. Samantha Truong, a sophomore and Program II major in global health, has been awarded a grant from the Aalok S. Modi Global Health Fieldwork Fund to explore malnutrition-related risks of women and children in the rural village of Naama in the Mityana District of Uganda.
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 Duke Student Work Presented at Unite for Sight Global Health Conference
Seven Duke undergraduates, MSc-GH and doctoral students presented their work at the Unite for Sight Global Health and Innovation Conference last weekend in New Haven, Connecticut. The annual conference attracted more than 2,000 professionals and students from more than 55 countries and is one of the leading conferences focused on global health, international development and social entrepreneurship.
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 Duke, Partners Launch Initiative on Innovation in Global Health
By Carolyn Kent, T'08 and Richard Bartlett, IPIHD Associate Director
As video footage of the earth from outer space scrolled across the screen, NASA astronaut Ron Garan challenged everyone to realize, "if we can fly to the moon and back, we can work together to create real change and live in a world where nobody dies of preventable diseases. Nothing is impossible." Garan's presentation was one of many inspiring discussions that took place as part of the first Symposium on Scaling Global Health Innovations hosted by the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD) on April 5, in which global health leaders from across campus came together with health care entrepreneurs.
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April 18, 19 & 22, 11am - 4pm Blue Devil Days Open Houses at DGHIApril 20, 4-8pm TEDxDuke: A Shrinking World, including Sherryl BrovermanApril 20, 6-9pm An Evening for Haiti: Building the Leogane Family Health CenterApril 22, 9am - 5pm Insights and Solutions for Emerging Infectious DiseasesApril 26, 8am-5pm 16th Annual NIEHS Biomedical Career FairApril 30, 12-1pm Risk Factors of Childhood Obesity in Mexico
SAVE THE DATE - MAY 10MSc-GH Commencement Luncheon, 11:30am-1pmGlobal Health Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony, 2-4pm |
Let Global Health Shine During #OneDayAtDuke 
This Friday, April 19, the entire Duke community in Durham and around the world is invited to capture and post photos and video, tweets and status updates that depict a typical day at Duke. Help us capture the global health spirit that pervades Duke and the world, from the mundane to the spectacular.
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