With a growing interest in global health across campus and the medical center, the Duke Global Health Institute has organized a Vietnam and Thailand Interest Group to bring together faculty, trainees and students who are interested in or currently working in these countries. The group aims to build further university-wide, multidisciplinary collaborations in Southeast Asia.
The first meeting of the interest group is Friday, April 13th 9-10 am in Trent Hall 124.
This August, DGHI will launch a two-week global health short course in Bangkok, Thailand in partnership with Mahidol University. In addition to new education programs, a growing number of Duke faculty and physicians have expanded their research to Vietnam and Thailand. For example, DGHI faculty member Anthony So is undertaking tobacco control research in both countries, and physician Walter Lee was awarded DGHI pilot funds to work with Vietnamese partners on building clinical research capacity among health providers.
DGHI Associate Director for Research John Bartlett will chair the new group. It is one of four country interest groups that have been formed at DGHI. The others are building partnerships in Ghana, Rwanda and Uganda. Under the leadership of Krishna Udayakumar, Duke Medicine Global will host another interest group for India in June.
For questions or directions to the upcoming meeting, contact Kelly Deal (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)).
