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, 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 also done extensive research and (…)

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

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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 configurations of (…)

  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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Thu, October 2, 2008 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Sanford Institute Fleishman Commons.

Burden of HIV on Girls & Women in Africa: Dr. Stephen Lewis, AIDS-Free World

The University Seminar on Global Health is open to the public. The series brings together a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and students from both the University and Duke Medicine to expand the interest and knowledge (…)

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While there has been an explosion of scholarship specifically concerned with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, an upcoming conference, hosted by the Concilium on Southern Africa (COSA), 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, (October 3rd and 4th, in the Franklin Center) thus aims to (…)

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

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