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This Week in Global Health is a weekly newsletter published by the Office of Global Health in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Contact Us | More Information
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Weekly Feature
31st Annual Minority Health Conference:
"Building Community in the Age of Information: Fighting Health Inequality in the Modern World."
February 26, 2010
The William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center, Chapel Hill, NC.
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Triangle Global Health Consortium
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Haiti Disaster Relief
Continue to check for updates on the School's and University's response to the disaster in Haiti and what you can do to get involved.
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Events on Campus and in the Community
Tuesday, February 23
"How Should We Eat? Policy and Ethics", Panel Discussion. 6:30pm, Hanes Art Center Auditorium, UNC-Chapel Hill. More Information.
Wednesday, February 24
"Who Ate My C's?: A Cultivation-Independent Approach to Identifying Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH)-Degrading Bacteria", Maiysha D. Jones, PhD Student, Environmental Sciences and Engineering. 12:00-12:50pm. Blue Cross Blue Shield Auditorium, Michael Hooker Research Center, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. More Information.
"Human Rights Around the World" Poster Session. Lobby, Medical Biomolecular Research Building, UNC School of Medicine, 12:00-1:00pm. Posters will be on display Tuesday-Friday. Sponsored by Physicians for Human Rights.
Thursday, February 25
"The
Effects of Human Rights Tribunals on Post-Conflict Societies: the Khmer Rouge
Trials in Cambodia", Jeffrey Sonis, MD, Department of Social Medicine, UNC School of Medicine. 12:00-1:00pm,G010 Bondurant, UNC School of Medicine.
"Preventing Falls Through Enhanced Pharmaceutical Care", Dr. Susan Blalock, Director of Graduate Studies at UNC School of Pharmacy. 3:30-5:00pm. Rosenau Hall, Room 228, UNC Gillings School of Public Health.
Screening of "iSalud!", 6:30-8:00pm, The Carolina Latino Center, 144 Craig North, UNC. Beverages and snacks provided.
Friday, February 26
31st Annual Minority Health Conference. Keynote speaker Robert E. Fullilove, Ed.D. The William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill. More Information.
Charity Poker Tournament. 6pm, 5307 Reams Run Road, Durham. Suggested Donations: $25, benefit Fahari Ministries of Nairobi, Kenya, an NGO that provides microcredit, financial, and psychological and spiritual support to families struggling with HIV/AIDS. Please contact Lindsay Stortz.View More Information.
Monday, March 1
"Innovations in Public Health: Fresh Food. Fresh Air. Fresh Ideas", Descriptions and discussions of two Gillings Innovation Labs. Will Vizuete, PhD and Alice Ammerman, DrPH. Register by February 24, 2010. More Information.
Wednesday, March 3
"Stirring the Sancocho and Seeing Africa: The Emergence of Afro-Dominican Identities in the Dominican Republic", Dr. Kimberly Simmons, University of South Carolina. 4pm, Global Education Center, Room 4003, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Friday, March 5
Global Visionaries Who Have Made A Difference Lecture Series. Speakers: Rye Barcott '01 and Salim Mohamed, Co-founders, Carolina For Kibera. 7:00-9:00pm. Winston House, London. Sponsored by the UNC General Alumni Association. More Information.
Saturday, March 6
"Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think." A documentary screening with discussion after led by Dalia Mogahed, Senior Analyst and Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies. 3:00-5:00pm. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $7 for students. More Information.
Friday, March 12
Friday Morning Conference Series. Atupele Kapito, UNC. 8:30am. UNC Bioinformatics Building, Room 1131. More Information.
Save the Date
Wednesday, March 24
Malaria's Impact on Developing Countries, Eve Van Devender, Center for International Health of RTI. 12:00-2:00pm. Whippoorwill Lane, Chapel Hill. Registration Required: Check for $17.00 to "UNA-USA West Triangle Chapter", sent to Barbara Rodbell, 404 Carolina Meadows Villa, Chapel Hill, NC 27517. Registration Deadline: March 19.
Wednesday, March 31
Ciompi Quartet Benefit Concert presented by The West Triangle Chapter of the United Nations Association. 7:30pm, Community Church of Chapel Hill. Order $25 tickets by calling (919)542-2567 or emailing amsherm@earthlink.net. All proceeds will be used to purchase insecticide impregnated anti-malaria bed nets.
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Undergraduate Highlights
Center for Global Initiatives on Facebook and Twitter.
Internships:
- Think Impact Global Development Summer Internship, South Africa or Kenya. Deadline: February 28, 2010. More Information.
- UNC Summer Public Health Fellowship Program. Deadline: March 12, 2010. More Information.
- Summer Field Practicum in Public Health and Environment, Kenya. Application Deadline: March 1, 2010. More Information.
- OCA Summer Internship Program. Deadline: March 1, 2010. More Information.
Funding for Juniors with International Summer Projects. Deadline: February 22, 2010. More Information.
Host a Student for Catalyst Conference. Catalyst Conference is a Campus Y organization that hosts a weekend for high school students to come and learn about diversity and social justice. We ask students who live in Carmichael or the Parker community to please host these students for two nights on the weekend of February 26 - 28. You get 8 community service hours for doing this! If interested, please email Esther.
Dell Social Innovation
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Announcements
Host Agencies for The North Carolina Counts AmeriCorps Program for AIDS. The North Carolina Counts AmeriCorps Program (NC CAF) will be welcoming a team of five National AIDS Fund Caring Counts AmeriCorps members to the greater Triangle area in August 2010 for an eleven month program. NC CAF is seeking organizations providing or interested in providing HIV education, prevention, and care services to host AmeriCorps members. Deadline for applications: May 3, 2010. Contact Matt Toth at (919)613-5449 for additional questions. More Information: Host Application, Successful Service Placement, Position Description, Prohibited Activities.
Students Serve Spring and Summer Project Grants
Students Serve is accepting applications for spring and summer service projects. Students with an idea about how to address a local, national, or global problem are encouraged to submit the online application. Deadline: March 15, 2010. More Information.
Substitute Your Daily Coffee for a Good Cause!
Starting Friday, February 5th 2010, every time you substitute your daily coffee with "Tanzanian Milk Tea," you will be contributing to an
"Emergency Health Fund" for the Tanzanian students in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
. Cafes supporting this initiative are the Global Cup Cafe in the FedEx Global Education Center, UNC and the Daily Grind in UNC Daniel's Student Stores.
More Information.
Support Haiti with Heeled HEARTS for Haiti: Multi-Art Commissions. Friday, February 26, through Friday, March 26, UNC student artists raising money for Haiti through donations for commissioned art. All proceeds will go to UNICEF. Visit the Heeled HEARTs for Haiti Facebook page to read about the artists and request art work.
Submit your photos to the International Photo Competition and Exhibit! SGHC will host a week-long exhibit in late March/early April to showcase student photographs from international public health experiences. The exhibit will focus on international health experiences, but the photographs themselves do not have to feature health-related subject. Deadline: Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 11pm. More information about submission requirements. Visit the SGHC website to see last year's photos.
UNC Global Health Challenge Competition: March 22-27, 2010 The UNC Global Health Challenge is an interdisciplinary case competition, organized by the SGHC together with an inter-disciplinary team from UNC Graduate Schools for UNC students to work together to develop innovative solutions to a topical global health problem. A monetary prize of between $1,000 and $2,500 will be awarded to winning proposals. Students may enter as a team or as individuals. More Information.
JANAC Call
for Papers: Trauma and HIV in Haiti
The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
(JANAC) has a themed issue planned to provide clinicians, academic
researchers, public health officials and health educators with focused
articles on trauma and HIV-related concerns in Haiti. The journal
invites submissions of original papers from across a variety of
disciplines that broadly address the interface between trauma, HIV and
clinical services. Deadline: March 22,
2010. More Information. |
Conferences
31st Annual Minority Health Conference: "Building Community in the Age of Information: Fighting Health Inequality in the Modern World." February 26, 2010. The William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center, Chapel Hill, NC. More Information.
Women of Color and HIV: 3rd Annual Community Forum. March 5, 2010, 8:00-2:30. Durham Marriott Convention Center, Durham, NC. More Information.
Association of Maternal and Child Health Annual Conference. "Moving Ahead Together: Celebrating the Legacy, Shaping the Future of Maternal and Child Health." March 6-10, 2010. More Information.
National Hispanic Medical Association 14th Annual Conference, "Health Care Transformation to Expand Prevention and Health Promotion for Hispanic Communities." March 25-28, 2010, Washington DC. More Information.
Latin American Migration: Transnational Perspectives, Regional Realities. March 26-27, 2010. Chapel Hill, NC. More Information.
19th Annual Global Health Education Consortium Conference: "Alliances for Global Health Education: Learning from South-South Collaboration." April 9-11, 2010. Cuernavaca, Mexico. More Information.
7th Annual World Health Care Congress. April 12-14, 2010. Washington DC. More Information.
Association of Minority Health Professions Schools: 24th Annual Symposium on Career Opportunities in Biomedical Sciences and Health Professions. April 16-17. Birmingham, Alabama. More Information.
7th Annual Conference, GH/Innovate 2010: Global Health & Innovation Conference. Presented by Unite For Sight. April 17-18, 2010, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. More Information.
Geneva Health Forum 2010/ Global Access to Health Platform. April 19-21. Geneva, Switzerland. More Information.
Duke Surgery Global Health Symposium. April 24, 2010. Duke University, Durham, NC. More Information.
International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity Annual Meeting. June 9-10, 2010, Minneapolis, MN. More Information.
XVIII International AIDS Conference. July 18-23, 2010. Vienna, Austria. Registration Deadline: February 24, 2010. More Information.
Reproductive Health 2010. September 22-25, 2010, Atlanta Georgia. Call for abstracts: due February 26, 2010. More Information.
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Faculty Feature
UNC Study: Coral Loss Slowed, Reversed by Marine Protected Areas
A new worldwide study shows marine protected areas (MPAs), underwater parks where fishing and other potentially harmful activities are regulated, provide an added bonus - helping coral reef ecosystems ward off and recover from threats to their health.
Researchers also found the protective effects of MPAs generally strengthen over time.
The findings, published in the Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010, issue of the journal PLoS One, are the first comprehensive global study to gauge the impact of marine protected areas on the health of corals.
Such havens have proved successful in protecting fish, leading to optimism among researchers that they may also indirectly help corals by restoring reef-based food webs. Previous studies also suggested that such conservation zones can directly protect reefs from problems such as overfishing, anchor damage and sediment and nutrient runoff pollution from adjacent land.
Marine scientists Elizabeth Selig, Ph.D., and John Bruno, Ph.D., from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, analyzed a global database of 8,534 live coral cover surveys conducted between 1969 and 2006. They compared changes in coral cover in 310 marine protected areas to those in nearby unprotected areas, looking at 4,456 reefs in 83 countries. Coral cover, or the percentage of the ocean floor covered by living coral tissue, is a key measure of the health of coral ecosystems.
"We found that, on average, coral cover in protected areas remained constant, but declined on unprotected reefs," said Selig, the study's lead author, who completed the work for her doctoral dissertation at UNC. She is now a researcher with Conservation International.
Bruno, associate professor of marine sciences in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences, said the results also suggest the protective benefits of such areas increase with time. Initially, coral cover continued to decrease after protections were put in place. However, several years later, rates of decline slowed and then stopped.
For example, in the Caribbean, coral cover declined for about 14 years after protection began - possibly due to the time it took for fisheries to rebound - but then stopped falling and began to increase. In the Indo-Pacific, cover kept declining for the first five years after protections were established, then began to improve, eventually reaching growth rates of two percent yearly after two decades.
"Given the time it takes to maximize these benefits, it makes sense to establish more marine protected areas. Authorities also need to strengthen efforts to enforce the rules in existing areas," Bruno said.
Story Provided by UNC News Service.
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Funding
Ronald W. Hyatt Rotary Public Service Awards. Deadline: March 1, 2010. More Information.
Independent Scientist in Global Health Award (K02). Deadline: March 1, 2010. More Information.
International Research Scientist Development Award (K01) Deadline: March 1, 2010More Information.
Note Deadline Change-ESRC/SSRC Collaborative Visiting Fellowships. Deadline: March 2, 2010. More Information.
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation/IIE Dissertation Fellowship (Africa). Deadline: March 5, 2010. More Information.
2010 CEES Fellowship and Grant, UNC-Chapel Hill. For UNC students. Deadline: March 15, 2010. More Information.
C.V. Starr Scholarship for UNC Students. Deadline: March 19, 2010. More Information.
Child Survival and Health Grants Program, USAID. Deadline: March 22, 2010. More Information.
Prevention of Sexual Transmission of HIV/AIDs in Haiti, USAID. Deadline: March 22, 2010. More Information.
Department for International Development "Tackling the Neglected Crisis of Undernutrition." Deadline: April 23, 2010. More Information.
CFE/Lenovo Instructional Innovation Grants program. Deadline: May 3, 2010. More Information.
NIH/NIAAA Research on Alcohol and HIV/AIDS. Deadline: May 7, 2010. More Information.
View additional upcoming global health research grant opportunities. |
Jobs and Internships
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Career resources at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health:
Membership in Global Health Council (FREE for UNC students and faculty!). More Information. On page, select "First Visit". Important: Please be sure to select your organization (UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases) in the company drop down menu to ensure you receive the complimentary membership.
UNC Center for Global Initiatives: International Internship Database. |
Department of Nutrition, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Family Health International (FHI)
Various opportunities worldwide
RTI International
Various opportunities worldwide
Family Health International
International Training & Education Center on HIV
University of Florida: College of Public Health & Health Professions
Agency for International Development
International Development Exchange
Mercer University. Macon, GA.
Compton Foundation/Population Reference Bureau International Fellows Program. Deadline Extended.
ASPH/CDC Allan Rosenfield Global Health Fellowship Program. Deadline: March 30, 2010. More Information.
View additional jobs from previous newsletters. |
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Office of Global Health 
