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Students Organize Open House to Network with Global Health Residents

The Duke Global Health Institute and the Medical School’s Global Health Interest Group are co-sponsoring an informal open house that enables students to learn more…

New DGHI Research Shows Strong Relationship Between Community and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Youth in Rural Kenya

Postdoctoral Fellow Eve Puffer spent the summer in Muhuru Bay to study why youth are at a high risk for HIV, and the factors that…

Duke Partners with GE Global Funding to Begin New Program in Rwanda

The GE Foundation has announced that it will fund the training of a biomedical engineering technician for every hospital in Rwanda. The basis for the…

DGHI Introduces New Health Systems Strengthening Course

The interdisciplinary master-level course, to be taught by DGHI Faculty Member Manoj Mohanan, will incorporate the fields of global health, public policy, and business to…

Amid Tragedy, South Africa Making Progress on Child Rights and Health

In one of the poorest townships of Cape Town, South Africa, a grandmother trudged from clinic to clinic seeking medical treatment for her sick grandson,…

Global Network Formed To Address Health Management Education

This week, members of an international Health Systems Competencies and Curriculum Initiative (HSCCI) taskforce proposed the formation of a global health systems training and education…

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DGHI’s Master of Science in Global Health focuses on research to improve health around the world

It’s one of only a few in the nation, and it has attracted students from as far away as Asia and Africa. The Duke Global…

Tanzania’s First Female Physician begins Medical School, Builds Alliances with U.S. Institutions

For every 33,000 people living in Tanzania, there is one doctor to serve them. This daunting doctor-to-patient ratio, as Dr. Esther Mwaikambo describes it, has…

International Taskforce to Meet in Durham to Discuss Strengthening Health Systems Around World

A taskforce of 32 health systems experts from 15 countries will convene in Durham next week to develop recommendations for schools of public health, medicine…

New Global Health Course Focuses on Cross-Cultural Medicine

Duke Global Health Institute Faculty Member David Boyd will introduce a new undergraduate course next semester that explores the role of indigenous medicine in global…

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Chronicle Series

The Duke Chronicle (Duke's student-run paper) ran a series of nine articles about Global Health in 2007.

The Business End of Global Health
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The obesity pandemic
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Genomics: making a world of difference
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Delving into health disparities in Durham
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Making connections
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The changing environment
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On the short end of globalization
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Harnessing the passion for global health at Duke
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