Seniors Share Findings From Global Health Projects with Communities
Dozens of Duke seniors in the Global Health Capstone course presented their final global health projects last Tuesday for the Duke community, but that wasn't the end of their class. Students are spending their final weeks sharing their findings with practitioners in the community where they based their projects in order to share their work and propose their ideas for implementing their recommendations.
Taught by DGHI faculty members David Boyd and Dennis Clements, the Capstone is the culmination of the global health certificate, in which students work in small teams to research a global health problem, consult with experts in the field and design and develop a practical solution for the problem.
Capstone students assessed a problem, developed interventions, curricula and manuals that address a variety of global health issues -- from refugee mental health and drug abuse education in North Carolina to prevention of child maltreatment in India, and increasing access to health care for pregnant women in Liberia.
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Students Explore Language and Culture with Global Health
This semester, Duke students examined how language and culture impact health beliefs and behaviors in French and Spanish-speaking countries around the world. As part of the half-credit course, Voices in Global Health, students explored the links between culture, language and health through case studies, personal narratives, documentaries and interviews recorded in the foreign language. Watch the video to learn more about the course from instructors Deborah Reisinger and Joan Clifton, and hear from the students who participated.
Next fall, the course will be offered in Arabic, French and Spanish.
Arabic Tutorial GLHLTH 270T-1, taught by Maha Houssein
French Tutorial GLHLTH 270T-3, FREN270T, taught by Deb Reisinger
Spanish Tutorial GLHLTH 270T-6, SPAN 270T, taught by Joan Clifton
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 Making the Elimination of Health Disparities a Personal Priority
By Senior Jocelyn Streid
Jocelyn's essay is a winner in the Duke School of Nursing's Global Health Essay Contest
"When most people think about crime, poverty, and hunger, they picture the inner city. They picture dirty streets and gangs and chain link fences. They don't picture rolling hills or clear brooks or houses nestled in the woods. They don't think rural. They don't think about us." The words of one of my research mentors has stuck with me three years after I spent a summer with her in a Appalachian town about the size of my high school... Since that summer, I've used my college career to explore issues of health equity and fairness in various forms.
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