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With the help of international athletes and local community leaders, Duke graduate is organizing Competitive Road Race in Kenya to raise HIV awareness.
Hubert Trust Funds Education and Research in Global Health
A $5 million gift to Duke’s Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health will expand research, service, and educational opportunities in global health for students and health care professionals at Duke and neighboring colleges and universities.
The gift is intended to foster collaborations with other organizations and institutions to make the best use of resources, expertise, and experience. The program previously received major gifts from the Hubert Trust, Yeargan Charitable Foundation Trust of Garner, N.C., and Gary Hock, owner of G.M. Hock Construction Company. Read More >>
Africa calling
On AIDS' 25th anniversary, Duke students and grads find service
opportunities in Africa
Emily Rotberg
It's a long journey from the Chapel Quad to the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro. But it's a journey that Valerie Johnson has made many times. Johnson (T '02) is the director of the Amani Children's Home, a home for street children and AIDS orphans in Moshi, Tanzania. She first traveled to Tanzania during high school, then studied in Kenya while double-majoring in African Studies and Psychology at Duke. After graduating, Johnson returned to Tanzania as a volunteer. Read More>
September 1, 2006 Duke, National University of Singapore Break Ground for New Medical School
 Architect's rendering: Duke-NUS |
By Chris DiFrancesco, Duke University Medical Center News Office
OUTRAM, SINGAPORE -- A groundbreaking ceremony held here today marked the beginning of construction for the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, a collaboration between the two institutions aimed at educating future physicians and promoting biomedical research.
The Singapore government will provide $310 million over seven years to establish the new school, which will have a curriculum patterned after that of the Duke University School of Medicine. R. Sanders Williams, M.D., dean of Duke's medical school, will serve as dean of the new institution.
In his remarks at the ceremony, Tony Chew, chairman of the governing board of the new medical school, said the school is expected to be completed in the summer of 2009 and will include 75,000 square feet of space for labs, classrooms and administrative offices. "The architectural consultants for the job have done extensive work at Duke University and have drawn inspiration from both the American and local contexts," he said.
The new medical school is being built on the National University of Singapore's Outram campus. The facility will be adjacent to Singapore General Hospital (SGH), the tertiary-care teaching hospital affiliated with SingHealth, one of the country's two main health care delivery systems.
"The physical proximity will facilitate close synergistic efforts between investigators at the school and the doctors and physician-scientists already on the SGH campus," said Williams. "This collaboration will be further enhanced by existing partnerships between the National University of Singapore and other world-class researchers."
Shih Choon Fong, president and professor of the National University of Singapore, said, "The school's faculty, researchers and students will, over time, increase Singapore's talent base and complement Singapore's ongoing efforts to become an education hub in the region."
Scientists from Duke will be encouraged to conduct research at the new medical school, as well as to collaborate with academic and private research groups at Singapore's Biopolis, a $300 million city-within-a-city that will house academic research institutes, life science companies and pharmaceutical research labs. The Singapore government is funding the construction of Biopolis as part of its $4.4 billion commitment to accelerating development in the biomedical sciences. The government also is offering incentives to lure companies to the country, and is funding research institutes devoted to genomics, bioinformatics, bioengineering, nanotechnology, molecular and cell biology, and cancer therapies.
Singapore, with an economy and health system similar to the United Kingdom and France, has a population of 4.2 million people. Singapore's two health care systems care for about 80% of the island's residents. The National Health Group is made up of four hospitals and two research centers. SingHealth comprises three hospitals and five research centers.
 Cynthia Binanay greets Dr. Margaret Kaseje |
August 21, 2006 Duke-Family Health International (FHI) Partnership
By Cynthia Binanay
Lilongwe, MALAWI—The DCRI's Cynthia Binanay, Program Director for Duke University's Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health, visited the Family Health International’s (FHI) Malawi office in late July to evaluate a pilot partnership between Duke and FHI in which Duke undergraduates come and volunteer with FHI country offices.
Michael Merson Named Leader of Duke Global Health Institute
By Chris DiFrancesco, Duke University Medical Center News Office July 26, 2006
Michael H. Merson, M.D., an internationally recognized expert in the study of HIV/AIDS, has been named director of the newly created Global Health Institute at Duke University, President Richard H. Brodhead announced Wednesday.
Changing the World One Perspective at a Time, June 23, 2006
by Antoinette R. Parker, Duke University Hospital Communications
Department
Hubert-Yeargan Center Offers Global Learning Experiences to Highlight
Health Inequalities
Although in April The Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health marked its one-year
anniversary with a gala held at the Washington-Duke Inn, its history spans
much further than just a year’s time.
To address healthcare needs on a global scale, in the 1980s Duke began sending
doctors to developing countries. Initially, partnerships developed between
Duke and institutions in Tanzania and Brazil, providing the foundation for
future collaborations in other parts of the world. But not until the Hubert-Yeargan
Center’s opening in November 2004 was there a dedicated portal for Duke
Medicine that led to experiential learning opportunities in developing countries.
And it has made a world of difference.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 and Wednesday, May 31 2006
FRONTLINE on PBS: http://www.pbs.org/frontline/- "The Age of AIDS" (240 minutes),
Developing a Generation of Globally Experienced Healthcare Professionals
April 20th, 2006
April 17th and 18th 2006
Duke to Launch Global Health Institute at Symposium - Read Complete Article
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William H. Foege,
MD, MPH Gates Fellow, former Senior Medical Advisor for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Emeritus Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health at the Rollins School of Public Health; former Director of the CDC and Executive Director of the Carter Center; epidemiologist who worked in the successful campaign to eradicate smallpox |
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Gifts Honor DCRI Team Members
August 12th, 2005
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Durham Developer Gives $1.5 Million for Duke Global Health Professorship,
July 2005
James H. Steele Veterinary Public Health Award,
April 2005
Duke University Partners with National
University of Singapore to
Establish New Medical School
March 2005
†Seminar support from the Duke University Center for International Studies with funds from the US Department of Education; Adult Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center; Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health, Duke University Medical Center; Center for AIDS Research, Duke University Medical Center; Duke University Global Health Initiative; Asian/Pacific Studies Institute; Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy; Health Sector Management Program, The Fuqua School of Business; and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs and Development