Dukies find purpose in medical charities
Pat Rutter is just like any other freshman-he comes from New Jersey, lives in Southgate Dormitory and enjoys going to the beach.
WISER Takes Duke To Kenya
Senior Andy Cunningham not only spoke at the United Nations headquarters over the summer, he also persuaded the entire assembly to dance along with a video of Kenyan school children performing a traditional Luo dance.
Duke doctors treating AIDS in Tanzania
Andrew Moon’s guest column in the Herald Sun focuses on Dr. John Bartlett’s work in Tanzania.
Agency combats HIV problem in North Carolina
In Sherryl Broverman’s AIDS/Emerging Diseases class students often begin the course expecting to learn about the worldwide pandemic.
On the Short End of Globalization
Part 2 in a series on global health. By Anthony So. In the late 1990s, one of my early missions for The Rockefeller Foundation took me to Khayelitsha, a poor township in South Africa. Its corrugated iron shacks stood in sharp contrast to the waterfront of neighboring Cape Town.
Reining in HIV/AIDS: Preventing HIV/AIDS with Better Microbicide Design
David Katz, professor at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke, has developed a computer tool that could improve the design of topical microbicides now under development.
Duke Medical Mission in Uganda
A Duke Neurosurgery team led by Dr. Michael Haglund took more than 6 tons of surplus equipment to New Mulago Hospital, changing the face of neurosurgery in Kampala, Uganda. Download video (iTunes)
Neurosurgery team heading to Uganda starts Blog
A 28-member team of health care professionals from Duke University Medical Center is carrying nine tons of surplus medical equipment and donated supplies to the 1500-bed New Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. Mulago Hospital staff will be trained to use and maintain the new equipment then surgeons from both countries will join in conducting a number of brain and spinal surgeries.
We’re Old Enough
Andy Cunningham, a Duke student, blogs from Muhuru Bay in Kenya, where he spent the summer helping to prepare for the opening of a boarding school for girls. He was part of a team funded by DukeEngage.
Duke’s Surplus Supports Ugandan Medicine
A Duke Neurosurgery team led by Dr. Michael Haglund took more than 6 tons of surplus equipment to New Mulago Hospital, changing the face of neurosurgery in Kampala, Uganda.