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Weekly Feature
UNC Global Health Challenge Competition
March 22-27, 2010
The UNC Global Health Challenge is a case competition that provides a
venue for UNC graduate and undergraduate students from multiple
disciplines to work together to develop innovative solutions for a
specified global health problem.
Gather your team now!
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Student Global Health Committee
Triangle Global Health Consortium
Website
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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
Monday, March 8-Sunday, March 14
Happy Spring Break, UNC Students
Tuesday, March 9
Global Health Exchange: Health Systems Strengthening. Manoj Mohanan, Duke Global Health Institute. 12:00-1:00pm. 124 Trent Hall, Duke University. More Information.
Thursday, March 11
American Public Health Association Webinar: "Climate Change: Mastering the Public Health Role", Edward Maibach, MPH, PhD, George Mason University. 12:00-1:00pm. Register Here.
Friday, March 12
Friday Morning ID Conference Series. Topic: Malaria. Atupele Kapito, UNC. 8:30am, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, UNC School of Medicine. More Information.
Tuesday, March 16
Global Health Journal Club Meeting: "Global Health, Bill Gates, and the US Government", 12:00-1:00pm, 124 Trent Hall, Duke University. More Information.
Wednesday, March 17
International Research and the IRB Process for Undergraduates in the Social Sciences and Humanities Workshop. Barbara Davis Goldman, PhD, IRB Consultation and Training, UNC Office of Human Research Ethics. 5:00-6:30, 1005 FedEx Global Education Center, UNC.
University Seminar on Global Health: "Global Childhood Obesity Epidemic: Challenges and Oppurtunities", Youfa Wang. 4:30-6:00pm, Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University. More Information.
Thursday, March 18
"Report of the CSIS
Commission on Smart Global Health Policy: A healthier, safer, and more prosperous world", 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Washington, D.C. (With Live Webcast). More Information.
UNC Study Abroad Information Session. 2:00pm, Room
3009, FedEx Global Education Center, UNC.
"Partnering with communities to promote healthy public policy", Meredith Minkler, DrPH. 5:00-6:00pm, Blue Cross Blue Shield Auditorium, Michael Hooker Research Center, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
"Kibera Illuminated: Lives in East Africa's Largest Slum", 6:00-10:00pm, Ackland Art Museum, UNC. More Information.
Friday, March 19"Kibera Illuminated: Lives in East Africa's Largest Slum", 6:00-10:00pm, Ackland Art Museum, UNC. More Information.
5th Annual Triangle Dance Festival for AIDS. 7:30pm, Memorial Hall, UNC.
Headlined by The African American Dance Ensemble and Southern High
Drumline. Tickets can be
purchased at the door or in advance by calling Memorial Hall (919-843-3333),
and are $5 in advance/$8 at the door for students, $8 in advance/$10
at the door general admission, and $5 for children.
See Announcements for additional details.
Wednesday, March 24
Impact of Malaria on Developing Countries, Eve
Van Devender, Center for International Health, RTI International. 12:00-2:00pm, Carolina Meadows,
Whippoorwill
Lane, Chapel Hill, NC. Reservations should be made by check for
$17.00 to "UNA USA West Triangle Chapter," sent to Barbara Rodbell,
404 Carolina Meadows Villa, Chapel ! Hill, NC 27517. Reservations deadline is
Friday March 19.
Saturday, March 27
"The Communities Role in Recognizing and Preventing Human and Sex Trafficking", Film and Panel Discussion. 10:00-12:00pm, Seymour Senior Center (2551 Homestead Road), Chapel Hill, NC.
Tuesday, March 30
Screening of "The Guestworker". Followed by conversation with co-director Charles Thompson. Part of Farmworker Awareness Week (see "Announcements" for more information about the Week). 12:00-2:00pm, School of Social Work Auditorium, UNC.
"Techno War: The Scramble for the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Minerals", John Prendergast. 7:00pm, Nelson Mandela Auditorum, FedEx Global Education Center, UNC. More Information.
Wednesday, March 31
Faculty Scholars Panel and Presentation. Dr. Pika Ghosh from Art Department and Dr. Rebecca Macy from School of Social Work. 12:00-1:30pm, 008 Gardner Hall, UNC. More Information.
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Undergraduate Highlights
UNC Study Abroad Information Session. Students interested in Study Abroad, 2:00pm, Thursday, March 18, 2010, Room 3009, FedEx Global Education Center, UNC.
International Research and the IRB Process for Undergraduates in the Social Sciences and Humanities Workshop. This workshop will provide an overview of the IRB process and some of the ethical issues involved in doing research in a cultural context of another country. The workshop facilitator will be Barbara Davis Goldman, PhD, IRB Consultation and Training, UNC-CH Office of Human Research Ethics. Wednesday, March 17, 5:00-6:30, 1005 FedEx Global Education Center, UNC.
Carolina Undergraduate Health Fellowship. Enables promising UNC undergraduates to create a self-designed health-related project anywhere in the world. The fellowship is an investment in talented students whose medical and cultural experience will strengthen the future of health care both in the United States and the world. Deadline: March 19, 2010. More Information.
Go! Global Orientation on Culture and Ethics. The GO! Initiative is designed to help students evaluate expectations,
anticipate potential challenges, prepare for culture shock, and develop intercultural competencies. April 17, 2010. More Information.
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Announcements
Are you doing an internship, practicum or research abroad
this summer?
The Student Global Health Committee is offering a $700
award to support travel for student experiences abroad this summer. We welcome applications from all UNC graduate
students. Applications are due April 2, 2010
. More Information.
Farmworker Awareness Week from March 28 - April 3, 2010. Because farmworkers feed the world, we demand just living and working conditions for farmworkers and an end to unfair treatment under the law. We demand fairly harvested food. More Information.
UNC Carolina Latina/o Collaborative is seeking to display student art addressing or relating to issues of identity, multiculturalism, and globalization for an exhibit beginning the third week of March 2010 and running through summer 2010. The CLC seeks 2D media work such as drawings, paintings, photography, and mixed media.Please submit 1-3 pieces in person to the CLC located in the first floor Seminar Wing of Craige North Residence Hall on south campus at UNC-CH. More Information.
The 5th
annual Triangle Dance Festival for AIDS presents an evening of performing arts
to promote community involvement and benefit local and global AIDS charities. The dance festival will be held Friday, March
19th, at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall, at UNC ( see Events for more details on ticket information).
Headlined by The African American Dance
Ensemble and Southern High Drumline, performances this
year will bring in renowned artists from the surrounding community, including
Tony C. Johnson's solo, "Hope", the Carolina Friends School rendition of "Heal
the World", and the riveting Southern High School Drum Line. The headlining
African American Dance Ensemble performs POWERFUL LONG LADDER with Grammy-Nominated
singer Lois Deloatch, spoken word by Poetik MIC, and choreography by
Chuck Davis, Ava Lavonne Vinesett, and Stafford Berry. The event brings the
best in local dance to perform together on one stage. All proceeds
will benefit the following HIV/AIDS charities: ACRA (AIDS Community
Residence Association) in Durham, who provides housing options among
several other supportive services for local families living with
HIV/AIDS; CHO
AIDS (Caring for Haitian Orphans with AIDS); and Health Alert, a
non-profit in Gulu, Uganda which coordinates prevention, treatment, and
care for over 1,000 pediatric HIV/AIDS patients.
Walk the Crop Walk and Raise Money for Hunger Relief
The Crop Walk, a 4 mile walk through Carborro, Chapel Hill, and the UNC campus, will be held on March 21, 2010 at 2:30pm. Raises money in order to provide food and other resources to people locally and around the world. The Church World Service distributes 75% of the money to global hunger, education, refugees, disaster relief, and self-help projects in more than 80 countries. If you would like to be a walker please contact Julia Wood at jcwood@email.unc.edu or Call (919) 548-0663.
Join UNC's 3rd Annual Dollar-a-Day for Poverty Action Week. As part of Poverty Action Week, Millennium Village Project will be sponsoring UNC's 3rd Annual Dollar-A-Day. Pledge to join hundreds of students as we attempt to live off one dollar for the day. 7:00 pm Wednesday, March 24, 2010 through 7:00 pm Thursday, March 25, 2010. After the 24 hours, join us for dinner at CMI's monthly Kiva Dinner at 7:00 pm (Location TBA) and wear your shirt to have dinner for a reduced price of $3. Stick around for a talk from a Kiva Fellow on her experiences with poverty and the action she's taken. This is an event in which students from many student organizations come together to recognize our commitment surrounding our generation's biggest challenge; the eradication of extreme poverty. For questions, contact Hannah Spring hspring89@gmail.com or Kate Neely krneely@gmail.com.
Ciompi Quartet Benefit Concert to tackle Malaria. Sponsored by The West Triangle Chapter of the UN Association. The concert will take place at the Community Church of Chapel Hill on Wednesday, March 31, at 7:30pm. Tickets cost $25. Email amsherman@earthlink.net for reservations.
1st Annual Think Global Run Local Road Race. Run to Make Water Run! 6k run/walk. Why 6k? Because that is the average distance that women in the developing world must walk daily to fetch their water (UNFPA, 2002). The 6k road race will raise money to assist the UNC chapter of Engineers Without Borders in its effort to bring sustainably managed drinking water to rural and underserved communities in the developing world. $15 early registration; $20 day of race; $60/$75 for teams of 5 or 6. Registration includes t-shirt. Saturday, April 4th at 9:00am starting at Polk Place, UNC. More Information.
UNC Global Health Challenge Competition: March 22-27, 2010. The UNC Global Health Challenge is a case competition that provides a
venue for UNC graduate and undergraduate students from multiple
disciplines to work together to develop innovative solutions for a
specified global health problem. This case competition will allow teams
of four to six students to work through a real-life case scenario and
develop succinct, strategic recommendations for improving a global
health issue. Teams will have one week to work on the case study and
will present their recommendations to a distinguished panel of judges.
All team members will be recognized for their participation, and a
monetary prize will be awarded to first and second place proposals
($2,500 1st Place Team; $1,000 2nd Place Team). Challenge Website.
"Run for a Change"
5k! April 25th @ 11am Al Buehler Trail
(around Washington Duke Golf Course), Durham NC.
Help
save lives around the world and join other community members, students and
families by registering to participate in the 2nd Annual "Run for a
Change" 5k! This event is open to all individuals at any fitness
level so join us in celebrating wellness, community empowerment and social change! More Information.
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Conferences
International Swine Flu Conference. March 10-11, 2010, London England. 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.
Nutrition and Developing the Millennium Development Goals. April 14, 2010. Harvard School of Public Health. More Information.
Clinton Global Initiative University. April 16-18, 2010, University of Miami (FL). 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.
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Faculty FeatureNew Venture to Fuel Global Thought
Global Research Institute director Peter Coclanis shares his ideas regarding a new global initiative to be launched March 22, 2010.
Question: The Global Research Institute is one of UNC-Chapel Hill's newest international initiatives. At
the Institute, UNC-CH faculty members and external scholars will
conduct and disseminate research on key global issues. Leading the
institute is Dr. Peter Coclanis, Albert R. Newsome DistinguishedProfessor of History at UNC. In a recent interview, Coclanis discussed
his expectations for the Global Research Institute and explained how it
would contribute to solving international issues, and, in so doing,
boost the university's international reputation.
Coclanis:
The Global Research Institute is an applied think tank dealing with
very important global issues. We have a huge number of important,
seemingly intractable problems out there in the world today - many of
which don't lend themselves to easy disciplinary solutions. What we are
hoping to do at the Institute is to deal with a number of these
problems over time, using some of our own faculty strength and the
expertise of very distinguished external scholars, whom we will fund to
bring to UNC. These scholars will work not only on their own research
but also as a group or cohort to try to find solutions for - or at
least innovative approaches to - some of these big problems. We want to
be part of the international dialogue on some of the issues that will
be really important in the coming decades.
Question: Internationalizing
the university was a major focus of the Global Leadership Circle, a
committee of faculty, administrators, alumni and friends convened by
former chancellor James Moeser to help the university develop a
strategy to expand its global presence. To do so, the committee
compared UNC-Chapel Hill to other internationally prominent
universities and their research institutes. The Global Research
Institute has an internal advisory board comprised of faculty members
and administrators concerned with the institute's themes and research,
and an external advisory board charged with strategizing, developing
networks, and rendering the Global Research Institute more visible.
Coclanis:
What we are trying to do with the Institute is to maximize some of
UNC's comparative advantages by creating an institutional framework
that would help us remedy what Chancellor Moeser's Global Leadership
Circle identified as weaknesses in our international posture. One of
the key weaknesses identified was a relative dearth, in comparison to
the very best universities, of what we would call "relative numbers" in
some international fields. We don't have as many internationally
oriented faculty in some fields as other elite universities which
began internationalizing earlier than we did. And the external/internal
approach is designed in part to help to meet this problem. Over time,
we hope that some of the external scholars who spend time with us will
like what they see, find UNC conducive to their research, and join us
in our work at Chapel Hill.
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Funding
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.
ASPH/CDC Allan Rosenfield Global Health Fellowship Program. Deadline: March 30, 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.
HHS/NIH Brain Disorders in the Developing World: Research Across the Lifespan. Deadline: May 14, 2010. More Information.
Indo-US Vaccine Action Program Small Research Grant, NIH/NIAID. Deadline: June 16, 2010. More Information.
Mechanisms and Prevention of Sexual Transmission of HIV/SIV, NIH/NIAID. Deadline: July 19, 2010. More Information.
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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.
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Family Health International (FHI)
Various opportunities worldwide
RTI International
Various opportunities worldwide
CapacityPlus, IntraHealth International
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Washington, DC. Deadline: March 29, 2010.
American Refugee Committee
Measure Evaluation/USAID Various Jobs
Duke Global Health Institute
Assistant Director, International Operations
Piedmont Health Services, Inc / Charles Drew Community Health Center
Saludamos
East Durham Children's Initiative/Center for Child and Family Health
Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI-USA)
University of Florida: College of Public Health & Health Professions
Department of Nutrition, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
View additional jobs from previous newsletters. |
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