Wed, September 7, 2011 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. DGHI is proud to host this global health seminar by noted human rights champion Edwin Cameron, a sitting justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court. Judge Cameron’s legal work and personal experience as an HIV-positive public figure have been instrumental in improving access to antiretroviral therapy and  (…)

  Africa, GHI, health, HIV/AIDS, human rights, international studies, justice, public policy, University Seminar

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On May 11, 2011 Dean Chameides of the Nicholas School announced that Meredith A. Barrett has been chosen as this year’s winner of the Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Student Manuscript for her dissertation: “Modeling the effects of illicit rosewood logging in Madagascar: A call for CITES designation”, which was published in Science, Volume 328 (5/28/2010).  Her dissertation research  (…)

  Africa, ecology, environment, graduate students, health, In the News, research grants, working group

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The Global Health Working Group (GHWG), one of the Graduate Seminars on Global Issues that the Duke University Center for International Studies sponsors, was recently highlighted by The Lancet. GHWG is a broadly interdisciplinary gathering of graduate students from across the university and professional schools who gather regularly during the academic year to discuss topics relevant to our individual  (…)

  graduate students, health, In the News, working group

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When: Saturday, September 25, 2010 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Speaker/Presenter: Sarah Lombardo
Cost: Free
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Description: Members of the Duke community are invited to join together at the Duke Global Health Institute to view the live broadcast of Partners in Health’s 17th Annual Thomas J. White Symposium. This year’s title is “Lessons from Haiti: Tackling Acute and Chronic Disasters,” and  (…)

  Caribbean, health

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Meredith A. Barret, past recipient of a DUCIS research and travel award for her work on Lemur disease ecology: Linking health, ecosystem viability & conservation in Madagascar, has co-authored an article published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment entitled “Integrating a One Health approach in education to address global health and sustainability challenges,” calling for more interdisciplinary education to  (…)

  ecology, graduate students, health, research grants

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Thu, April 1, 2010 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Bryan Center Von Canon Room C. free and open to the public. Dr. Julio Frenk became Dean of the Faculty and T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development at the Harvard School of Public Health on January 1, 2009. Dr. Frenk is an eminent authority on global  (…)

  health, Latin America, Seminar on Global Health

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Sun, March 21, 2010 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM Perkins Library Breedlove Room. Free, but registration required. From the social impact of infectious diseases, to the policy initiatives that have been taken to control the spread of those diseases, to the vast body of cultural production inspired by these same diseases, together with the frequent recourse to illness-inspired metaphors (e.g.,  (…)

  China, health

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Wed, January 20, 2010 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. free and open to the public. Dr. Jeffrey Sonis – Assistant Professor of Social Medicine and Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Topic: TBD. The Duke University Seminar on Global Health series is a university¿wide interdisciplinary initiative which connects those  (…)

  health, Seminar on Global Health, University Seminar

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When: Thursday, December 3, 2009 3:30 PM – 5:00 PMWhere: John Hope Franklin Center 240Cost: free and open to the publicMore Info
Description: DGHI/DuPRI seminar – Dr. Geoffrey Garnett – Professor, Microparasite Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College, London. Topic: TBD. Duke University Seminar on Global Health series is a university-wide interdisciplinary initiative which connects  (…)

  health, Seminar on Global Health, University Seminar

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This seminar aims to foster lively interdisciplinary conversations about health ethics, the political issues that arise in health policy planning and reform, and the place of ideas of justice and human rights in these political conversations. The seminar will address the following central questions:

• What are the political philosophical issues that arise in contemporary debates about health and justice both

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  ethics, health, justice, public policy, working group

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