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Overview | Objectives | Activities | Investigators |
15-501 Global Health Dinner Club | Student Seed Grants |
Malawi-Carolina Summer Institute
Overview
 Instructors and participants in the clinical trials short course in Blantyre, Malawi Funded by the GlaxoSmithKline Foundation, this program provides a
formal way for UNC and Duke faculty and students to collaborate on
research and training over a period of 3 years. The program is coordinated through the SPH Office of Global Health.
If you are interested in getting involved, please email the Office of Global Health.
Objectives
- Enhance the research and methodological skills of our global partners and students
- Create locally sustainable infrastructures in Malawi and Tanzania through capacity building
- Promote equal participation in investigative projects
Activities
Determine the capacity and research training needs of local providers in Tanzania and Malawi by:
- Conduct on-site pilot research training programs and needs
assessments in Tanzania and respond to already identified training
needs in Malawi
- Hold two winter conferences for interaction and input among key
leaders from Tanzania, Malawi, Duke and UNC to identify ways to improve
and tailor research training needs
 Malawi The research training in the first two years of the project will be flexible and responsive to the local needs
- Offer two short, multi-site courses in qualitative research methodology and clinical trials
- Open the Fogarty-funded Malawi-Carolina Summer Public Health Institute to qualified Tanzanians
- Conduct smaller practicum-based training so Malawian and Tanzanian
trainees can receive direct mentorship while planning or conducting
their own research projects
Organize cross-campus programs to foster interest and capacity in global health research among faculty and graduate students:
Develop the 15-501 Global Health Dinner Club and Symposium to bring together UNC and Duke faculty and students to discuss research collaborations and promote ongoing collaboration. Click here for more information. Investigators
- Peggy Bentley, PhD, Professor of Nutrition and Associate Dean for Global Health, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
- Steve Meshnick, MD, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, UNC School of Medicine
- Bill Miller, MD, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and Professor of Medicine, UNC School of Medicine
- Nathan Thielman, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke
University School of Medicine; Co-Director, Program in International
Research, Duke Human Vaccine Institute
- Kathryn Whetten, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Policy
Studies, Community and Family Medicine, and Nursing, Terry Sanford
Institute of Public Policy; Director of Center for Health Policy;
Director of Health Inequalities Program, Duke University
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