When: Thursday, November 5, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:00 PMWhere: To be determinedCost: free and open to the publicMore Info
Description: Dr. Marian Jacobs – Director, School of Child and Adolescent Health and Dean of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town. Topic: TBD. Duke University Seminar on Global Health series is a university-wide interdisciplinary initiative which connects those from Duke and area universities with (…)
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Duke University Seminar on Global Health: Susan Newcomer
When: Thursday, October 8, 2009 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Where: Perkins Library Breedlove Room
Cost: free and open to the public
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Description: DGHI/DuPRI Seminar – Dr. Susan Newcomer – National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health. Topic: TBD. Duke University Seminar on Global Health series is a university-wide interdisciplinary (…)
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When: Monday, September 28, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:00 PMWhere: John Hope Franklin Center 240Cost: free and open to the publicMore Info
Description: Dr. Ron Mitsuyasu – Associate Director, UCLA AIDS Institute and Director, CARE Center. Topic: TBD. Duke University Seminar on Global Health series is a university-wide interdisciplinary initiative which connects those from Duke and area universities with nationally-recognized experts to explore critical (…)
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Duke University Seminar on Global Health: Lynn Morris
When: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Cost: free and open to the public
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Description: Dr. Lynn Morris – Chief Specialist Scientist and Head of the AIDS Unit, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in South Africa. Topic: Doing HIV Basic Research in the Hot Zone (…)
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When: Wednesday, March 4, 2009 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
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Description: Topic: Global Health Law. Dr. Lawrence Gostin, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University. The University Seminar on Global Health is a series of public lectures that brings together a multidisciplinary audience from the University, the Medical Center, and the community (…)
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There it was – the look, the stares that I got as soon as I entered a place like this following after the Profamilia workers. The look, which seemed to follow me everywhere I went seemed to say“ What is that guy doing here? He’s not from around here? What does he want?” This was a sort of self-constituting othering (…)
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The DUCIS Global Health Graduate Award funds allowed me to complete the majority of the data collection that I will need for my dissertation research project. I worked in Madagascar from June until October and visited four research sites: Kirindy Mitea National Park, Betmapona Strict Nature Reserve, Parc Ivoloina and Analamazaotra Nature Reserve. At these sites, I was able to establish (…)
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When: Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Cost: free and open to the public
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Description: Topic: Malaria and the Demographic Transition in Africa. Dr. Conley is Chair of Sociology at New York University. He holds appointments at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The University Seminar on (…)
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When: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Description: Dr. Daniel Schmitt, Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University, Topic: “Evolution, Obesity, and Arthritis: Understanding Human Health from an Evolutionary Perspective” The University Seminar on Global Health is open to the public. The series brings together a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and students from (…)
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When: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 028
Cost: Please RSVP
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Description: Speaker: Tom Quinn, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health Dinner served at 7:15pm, Program commences at 7:30pm
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