UNIVERSITY SEMINAR ON GLOBAL HEALTH
DUKE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

SPRING 2007 SERIES

Date TBA  
Myron S. Cohen, MD, J. Herbert Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Public Health, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, and Associate Director, UNC CFAR, University of North Carolina School of Medicine::Transmission and Prevention of HIV: Messages from subSaharan Africa

January 23  
Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, FAAP, Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center::The Neglected Tropical Diseases: New Tools and Promises for their Control

January 25  
Jim Yong Kim, Professor and Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Professor and Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Bridging the Implementation Gap in Global Health:  Why We Can’t Wait

February 20           
Melinda Moree, Director, Malaria Vaccine Initiative, PATH, title TBA

March 20           
Grace John-Stewart, Associate Professor, Medicine, Allergy and Infectious Diseases/International AIDS Research and Training Program, University of Washington School of Medicine, title TBA

April 12           
Roger Glass, MD, PhD, Director, Fogarty International Center and Associate Director of NIH for International Programs, National Institutes for Health::Challenges and Opportunities in Global Health: A view from the Fogarty International Center

 

Presentations from Past Events

April 2007, Dr. John Crump, A Collaborative Health Research and Service Program in northern Tanzania

December, 2006 Peter Kussin, MD, Reflections of a Tsunami Medical Relief Worker in Aceh Province, Indonesia

October, 2006 Karen E. Joynt, MD, Cardiovascular Health in Aboriginal Australians

01/11/2005 Richard L Guerrant, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine and Head, Division of Geographic and International Medicine at the University of Virginia, spoke on global health issues in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster. Click here to view the presentation.

01/27/2005 Barton F Haynes, MD, Director, Duke University Human Vaccine Institute spoke on "HIV VaccineDevelopment for Africa: The Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise." Click here to view the presentation.

04/20/2005 UNC School of Public Health Fred T. Foard Alumni Lecturer David L Heymann, MD, Executive Director of Communicable Diseases at WHO, spoke on "From Smallpox to SARS, Avian Influenza and Polio: Dilemmas in Public Health." A streamed video is available here.

05/13/2005 Pierce Gardner's presentation (PDF) on the Fogarty/Ellison Fellowship can be found here.