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  (…)

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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  (…)

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The political, economic, and moral theories of Karl Marx and his followers continue to inform how modern individuals view the world. Few people, though, recognize the debt they owe this “poetic professor from London.” Besides these more subtle manifestations of the thought of Marx, politicians including Hugo Chavez, Fidel and Raul Castro, and Hu Jintao continue to invoke Marx’s name  (…)

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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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At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama, turned heads when he told the audience at the Democratic National Convention, “There is not a liberal America and a conservative America”¦ there is the United States of America.” Likewise, French President Nicolas Sarkozy attempted to create the illusion of a non-partisan world by recruiting members of the French  (…)

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Are you interested in Global Health? Do you want to find out what other students are doing and how you can contribute?

About Us

The Global Health Working Group is an entirely student-driven group sponsored by the Duke University Center for International Studies (DUCIS) as part of their Graduate Seminars on Global Issues. It is a uniquely interdisciplinary collection of  (…)

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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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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. (…)

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Wed, November 12, 2008
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240.
Free, open to the public.

The Graduate Student Human Rights Working Group will host a discussion with faculty on the lessons to be drawn from the past two decades in human rights law and advocacy. Join Professors Catherine Admay, Allen Buchanan, George Christie, John Dugard, Robin  (…)

  graduate students, human rights, working group

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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. (…)

  ethics, graduate students, health, working group

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