Op-ed by Kathryn Whetten
Featured in the New Jersey Star-Ledger and News & Observer

A seemingly compassionate bill now before Congress aims to help orphaned children in low-income countries. If you want to understand why it is deeply flawed, you need to know about Pisey. Pisey is one of thousands of young people our research team has worked with around the world. She is 17 and working in a karaoke bar in Battambang, Cambodia. There she serves drinks and is required to exchange sex for money. She longs for her loving family.  

Duke-NUS Student Wins Award for Outstanding Thesis

Misa Noda, a medical student at Duke-National University of Singapore, won the Most Outstanding Third Year Clinical Science Research Thesis Award for her work on occupational health in Sri Lanka. She studied the risk factors for low back pain among drivers of three-wheelers, a large occupational group in many Asian countries.  Her results show drivers with low back pain often worked longer hours. Her mentors were DGHI faculty members Truls Ostbye and Rahul Malhotra, and the work builds on research started by MSc-GH student Jacob Kirkorowicz.Beth Feingold, postdoctoral associate at DGHI, has been named a National Fellow by the Environment Leadership Program. The fellowship program recognizes individuals who show leadership and commitment in responding to social and environmental challenges.  Fellows receive leadership and skills training focused on community building, leading across difference and strength-based leadership. Feingold is part of the first group of national fellows since 2006.