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 (…)

  ethics, graduate students, health, working group

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When: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Cost: none
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Description: Dr. Tom Quinn, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, Topic: Infectious Diseases:Continuous Threats to Global Health. The University Seminar on Global Health is open to the public. The series brings together a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and students  (…)

  ethics, globalization, health, Seminar on Global Health, University Seminar

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When: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Cost: free and open to the public
rabhat Jha, Director, Centre for Global Health Research at the University of Toronto, will present the fourth University Seminar on Global Health for 2008-09. The title of the talk is Tobacco Mortality in India. Dr. Jha has  (…)

  Asia, health, HIV/AIDS, India, Seminar on Global Health, tobacco, University Seminar

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Tue, November 18, 2008
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240.

The Concilium on Southern Africa is extremely pleased to announce a public conversation between distinguished scholars James Ferguson (Stanford University) and Achille Mbembe (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) (…)

  Africa, colonialism, Concilium on Southern Africa, culture, diplomacy, economics, governance, health, human rights

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When: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 028
Cost: Please RSVP
Dinner served at 7:15pm, Program commences at 7:30pm. (…)

  ethics, globalization, graduate students, health, working group

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When: Wed, October 29, 2008 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM

Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Cost: Free and open to the public
Dr. Katia Koelle, Assistant Professor of Biology, Duke University will be speaking on “Understanding the Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics of Dengue”. Dr. Alun Lloyd, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics at North Carolina State University will address “Novel  (…)

  ethics, globalization, health, Seminar on Global Health, University Seminar

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When: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Where: Trent 40
Please RSVP.
Dinner served at 7:15 pm, program commences at 7:30 pm. (…)

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The growth of human populations and the rapid destruction of forested habitat are bringing humans and wildlife into ever-increasing contact. What does this amplified interaction mean for global public health and biodiversity? Duke PhD student, Meredith Barrett, supported by a DUCIS Graduate Award for Research & Training, traveled to Madagascar in search of answers.

  Africa, colonialism, ecology, grants, health, HIV/AIDS, research grants, travel grants

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Sat, October 4, 2008 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240.
While there has been an explosion of scholarship specifically concerned with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, this conference hopes instead to use the AIDS epidemic as a way of expanding the definition of illness. The Social Coordinates of Illness in Post-Colonial Africa conference thus aims to explore  (…)

  Africa, colonialism, Concilium on Southern Africa, ethics, health, HIV/AIDS

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Fri, October 3, 2008 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Conference keynote address by João Biehl, Princeton University (…)

  Africa, colonialism, Concilium on Southern Africa, ethics, health, HIV/AIDS, human rights

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