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Global Health Study Program

Study program director: Dennis Clements, MD, PhD

The Global Health Study Program (GHSP) was approved in February 2008 to meet the growing demand from Duke medical students for a centralized resource for information, mentors, funding, and research opportunities related to Global Health (GH). In collaboration with the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), the GHSP facilitates connections for students with research opportunities at one of Duke’s international GH field sites, as well as with other locations offering appropriate opportunities. Currently, DGHI is collaborating with institutions in China, Haiti, India, Kenya, Singapore, Tanzania, and Uganda, and is pursuing collaborative partnerships in Costa Rica, Ghana, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka,

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, and others. The Institute focuses on six signature research initiatives with global reach. The program also connects students to Duke faculty with GH expertise, such as those whose research focuses on infectious diseases, epidemiology, clinical microbiology, translational medicine and social science. The GH Study Program, as with all Third Year Study Programs, requires a thesis that demonstrates quantitative expertise, regardless of the discipline chosen. Students will work with a project mentor, as well as a Duke Faculty member, to develop and conduct research that is of benefit both to the international site and to the educational goals of the student.

DGHI and SOM are developing processes for consolidating and disseminating information about past students’ Study Away experiences and funding opportunities for international fieldwork and research, and will be active in evaluating the qualifications of international mentors involved in supporting students undertaking the GH study program. For more information please contact the GH Third Year Study Program Coordinator.

Limited funding will be available for Third Year students undertaking research projects related to Global Health. While preference will be given to students participating in the GH Study Program and working at DGHI field sites, all relevant proposals will be considered. Please contact the GH Third Year Study Program Coordinator to learn more.

NOTE: Students wishing to conduct research at an international site that is not related to global health and/or health disparities, or who would be best mentored under another study program, may find more appropriate mentorship through another Third Year Study Program.

Dual-Degree Option:
Master of Science in Global Health

DGHI has developed an interdisciplinary Master of Science in Global Health (MSc-GH) that launched in fall 2009. The 32-unit curriculum includes five core courses, one elective from each of four thematic blocks, a field experience to apply learned research methods, and a research-based scholarly thesis. Medical students and residents, if motivated, will be able to complete the program in one year (fall, spring, summer).

Upon completion of the MSc-GH, graduates will be prepared to engage in clinical, epidemiological, social-behavioral, and policy-oriented research, as well as contribute to the design, implementation, and management of health programs.

Each year, the School of Medicine and the Graduate School will grant limited tuition scholarships to at least two students wishing to earn the MSc-GH. Applicants to the program will be automatically considered for these scholarships when an application for the MSc-GH is submitted to the Graduate School. For more information and application instructions, please contact DGHI or visit the MSc-GH website at: http://globalhealth.duke.edu/education-fieldwork/graduate-professional/msc-gh.

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John Alexander Bartlett, M.D. Professor of Medicine Director of the AIDS Research and Treatment Center	Dennis Alfred Clements, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H Professor of Pediatrics Chief, Division of Children's Primary Care in the Department of Pediatrics
Gordon Ralph Corey, M.D. Gary Hock Professor of Global Health in the Department of Medicine	John Andrew Crump, M.B.B Assistant Professor of Medicine
Coleen Kathryn Cunningham, M.D. Associate Professor of Pediatrics Chief, Division of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases	John McCray Dement, Ph.D. Professor in Community and Family Medicine
Michael Martin Haglund, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Surgery	Cathrine Hoyo, Ph.D., M.P.H Assistant Professor in Community and Family Medicine
Sandhya Anand Lagoo-Deenadayalan, Ph.D., M.S. Assistant Professor of Surgery	Hester Johnstone Lipscomb, Ph.D., M.P.H Associate Professor in Community and Family Medicine
David Franklin Lobach, M.D., Ph.D., M.S. Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine Chief, Division of Medical Informatics in the Department of Community and Family Medicine	David Bruce Matchar, M.D. Professor of Medicine Director of the Center for Clinical Health Policy Research
Michael Howard Merson, M.D. Professor of Medicine	James Lloyd Michener, M.D. Professor of Community and Family Medicine Chair, Department of Community and Family Medicine
Truls Ostbye, M.D., M.P.H Professor in Community and Family Medicine	George R. Parkerson, M.D., M.P.H Professor of Community and Family Medicine
Joellen Martha Schildkraut, Ph.D., M.P.H Professor of Community and Family Medicine	Kevin Alan Schulman, M.D., M.B.A Professor of Medicine Director, Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics
Mina Ruth Silberberg, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine	Nathan Maclyn Thielman, M.D., M.P.H Associate Professor of Medicine
David Keith Walmer, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor - Track IV of Obstetrics and Gynecology Chief, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology	Christopher Wildrick Woods, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine

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