Monthly Archives: September 2009

We're launching our newsletter next week!

The Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases is happy to announce that it will launch its e-newsletter next week!  It will feature in-depth global health stories from across the campus and around the globe, as well as the latest … Read More

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Why Global Health Matters to North Carolina

This afternoon,  my colleagues and I will be attending and participating in an important forum highlighting North Carolina’s contributions to global health research and practice, including the  impact of these activities on the state’s economy. The forum, “A Center of … Read More

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Expanding the role of universities in global health

[This post sent in by the delegation that attended the event discussed below: Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD, a new faculty member and UNC’s first professor of global health policy, Myron Cohen, Peggy Bentley, Pia MacDonald, Mamie Sackey-Harris (all … Read More

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More perspectives from Malawi: A small boy tackles a big illness

[More from guest blogger Charles Vorkas, who is on an FICRS fellowship in Malawi this year] August 20, 2009 19:13 UNC Guest House Off the tarmac there is a dirt path about half a kilometer long.  It ends at the … Read More

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Perspectives from Malawi

I’d like to introduce guest blogger Charles Vorkas, a student at Weill Cornell Medical College who is spending a year at UNC Project-Malawi on an FICRS fellowship from the NIH Fogarty International Center.  He is working under the mentorship of … Read More

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