Three Faculty Awarded Seed Funding to Pursue Research Collaborations in Global Health
Cutting-edge research that offers solutions in global health challenges requires the human and financial resources to take it from inception to completion. One of the important ways in which DGHI supports Duke faculty is through seed funding that enables great ideas to take shape and researchers to work together in new ways. This spring, DGHI has awarded International Travel Grants to Duke researchers, David Brizel (Medicine) Harris Solomon (Cultural Anthropology) and Steve Taylor (Medicine) for the pursuit of global health research collaborations in Russia, India and Kenya, respectively.
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 Global Health Senior Honored for Service
Kathleen Perry, a senior graduating with a degree in religion and a certificate in global health, has been awarded the 2013 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award. Sponsored by the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation, the award recognizes individuals who personify the integrity and service that were exemplified by Sullivan, a New York lawyer and philanthropist who died in 1887. Perry came to Duke in 2009 and quickly found herself drawn to community programs that served the poor, dying, homeless and others on the margins of society. This fall, Kathleen will begin the Duke Master of Science in Global Health.
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 Umbrellas for Health
By Anastasia Lambrou
Anastasia's essay is a winner in the Duke School of Nursing's Global Health Essay Contest
"I need 50,000 umbrellas as soon as possible. Yes, umbrellas: those handy apparatuses that protect us from the rain. However, they are much more than that. Umbrellas can be used to ameliorate heath disparities throughout the country of Nepal. This past summer I travelled to Nepal to embark on my Independent DukeEngage Project and Duke Global Health Institute Student Fieldwork. I conducted interviews and got an inside view of the health of Nepal's people..."
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