Duke University School of Medicine Hosts Research Week, October 14-17

Duke University School of Medicine Hosts Research Week, October 14-17

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The inaugural Duke University School of Medicine Research Week will be held from Monday, October 14 through Thursday, October 17, 2019 on the sixth floor of the Trent Semans Center for Health Education. Activities for the week will include presentations from four School of Medicine faculty members, a Duke Office of Scientific Integrity (DOSI) Research Town Hall, the Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, Distinguished Lecture, Innovation Jam, a Clinical Keynote Lecture, and a poster session featuring the research of residents, trainees and PhD students from clinical and basic science departments. CME Accredited: Each daily 1 hour lecture(s) is designated for 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. Check-in and lunch will begin daily at 11:30 a.m. Boxed lunches provided. Event Registration
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The Duke Global Health Innovation Center Welcomes the Chinese Healthcare Security Administration for Training

The Duke Global Health Innovation Center Welcomes the Chinese Healthcare Security Administration for Training

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[caption id="attachment_807" align="aligncenter" width="750"] Dr. Krishna Udayakumar (Director, Duke Global Health Innovation Center) and Dr. Robert Eick (Policy Fellow, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy), and members of the China NHSA delegation outside the Duke Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in Durham, NC. Photo by Emily McAndrew.[/caption] The Duke Global Health Innovation Center (GHIC) in partnership with the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy hosted a delegation from China’s National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA) for a week-long health policy and leadership training in August. The training was held at Duke University in Durham, NC, and consisted of classroom lectures, site visits, and social gatherings where the delegation had the chance to learn from a wide range of US experts, healthcare leaders, Duke faculty and researchers. The training focused on the…
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Dr. Krishna Udayakumar, Director of the Duke Global Health Innovation Center & Executive Director of Innovations in Healthcare moderates UNGA panel on private and public leadership to ensure healthy lives for all.

Dr. Krishna Udayakumar, Director of the Duke Global Health Innovation Center & Executive Director of Innovations in Healthcare moderates UNGA panel on private and public leadership to ensure healthy lives for all.

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Dr. Krishna Udayakumar, Director of the Duke Global Health Innovation Center & Executive Director of Innovations in Healthcare will moderate a panel discussion today, How to take leadership on SDG 3, as part of the 74th United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York City. This panel brings together a diverse set of stakeholders with an interest in developing innovative solutions to ensure healthy lives for all. The event is co-hosted by The Permanent Mission of Denmark to the UN, The Royal Consulate General of Denmark in New York, The UN Global Compact, and LEO Pharma. Melissa Powell, Chief of Staff of the UN Global Compact, and Magnus Heunicke, Minister of Health of Denmark, will introduce the session. Panelists are: Ranieri Guerra, Assistant Director-General for the Universal Health Coverage HLM,…
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Designing Fulfilling Careers in Global Health

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United for Sight will offer a free webinar, "Beyond Good Intentions: Designing Fulfilling and Impactful Careers in Global Health," on October 3rd, from 4 to 5 pm EST. The webinar will include a panel discussion and the opportunity to ask panelists about career development. Find out how to identify and design a career path, strategies for pursuing careers in global health, and lessons learned in the field. This webinar is ideal for students and professionals interested in global health, as well as university advisors and faculty. Registration is available at: https://slate.uniteforsight.org/register/100319webinar. The live webinar will be recorded, and registered participants will automatically receive a link to the webinar recording when it becomes available. Those who attend live will have the opportunity to submit questions to the panelists. The panel will be…
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NHS Innovation Accelerator Call for Fellowship Applications

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The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA), an initiative delivered in partnership with England’s 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) and hosted at UCLPartners, announces its fifth call for fellowship applications. The deadline is Oct. 23, 2019. The program is designed to support innovators by scaling their high impact, evidence-based innovations across the English NHS and wider healthcare system for the benefit of patients, staff, and the population. The twelve Fellows selected will join existing Fellows and Alumni supporting 52 innovations. Applicants can be the inventor of the innovation, the project lead or the representative of an innovation. They can be clinicians, academics, from any size enterprise, or from a public-sector, charitable or not-for-profit organization. Applicants’ innovations should address the following criteria: one or more of the commitments laid out in the…
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