Doris Duke Fellows Embark on Global Health Research in East Africa
The Duke Global Health Institute's first class of Doris Duke fellows at Duke University will begin their work in East Africa this month. The program involves training and 8-9 months of mentored clinical research in the field with the goal of producing future leaders in global health clinical research.
The inaugural members of the prestigiousDoris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowshipat Duke University are U.S. medical students Anubha Agarwal, Julia Beamesderfer and Jing Ren. They are embarking on their yearlong clinical research projects this month at one of two DGHI priority locations in East Africa: Eldoret, Kenya or Moshi, Tanzania.
Global Mental Health Expert Joins DGHI Faculty
Brandon Kohrt, MD, PhD, joined Duke this month as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Duke Global Health Institute. His role builds upon DGHI's research priority in the area of global mental health.
Kohrt has worked in Nepal and Liberia conducting global mental health research on populations affected by war-related trauma and chronic stressors of poverty, discrimination, and lack of access to healthcare and education.
African Fever Patients Commonly Over-diagnosed with Malaria
People hospitalized with fever in Africa are most likely treated for malaria but, in some areas, nearly all of these patients are ill from a different infection, suggests a new collaborative study led by a University of Otago and Duke University researcher. In a paradigm-shifting study published in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, more than 800 severely ill inpatients in Tanzania were carefully studied to identify the causes of their fever. The study was led by John Crump, professor at the University of Otago and DGHI adjunct professor.
Duke Global Health Fellows Engage with Global Health Leaders in Geneva
Spending the summer interning in Geneva, Switzerland, a hub for global health policy, the ninth cohort ofDuke Global Health Fellowscapped a week-long policy course by attending the opening session of theTrilateral Joint Technical Symposium on Medical Innovation.The symposium and a week-long course leading up to it helped the fellows gain new perspective into emerging global health policy issues.The 23 fellows are from universities around the world, including Duke alumni and a student in the Duke Master of Science in Global Health.
Duke University Libraries announces a new graduate student reading room at Perkins Library. They are also introducing a new app called BrowZine that enables students, faculty and staff to read academic journals on the iPad or Android tablets.
Duke Global Health Fellows Engage with Global Health Leaders in Geneva
