Kaitlyn Daly, PhD student, had a Letter to Editor published by The News & Observer. The piece (seen below) advocates the importance of faith-based communities and federal programs to jointly work to create a resilient food safety net and system, particularly in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic:
Gwen Waddell-Schultz, consulting associate and Duke AHEAD member, is retiring as chief nurse of Nursing Education and Medicine with the Duke VA Health Care System. With more than 38 years of nursing, Waddell-Schultz has contributed to the nursing education of hundreds of nurses, and her commitment to veterans is forever.
Over winter break, Zoom implemented a new security requirement that will require a passcode or waiting room. The requirement applies to meetings, including those that use your Personal Meeting ID. Check out this Duke Today article for more information.
Congratulations to the Duke Elder Family/Caregiver Training (DEFT) Center team on being selected as a finalist for the DIHI RFA 2021 application.
In celebration of the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, Duke University School of Nursing and Nurse-Family Partnership co-hosted a virtual panel discussion, "Supporting Healthy Communities through Public Health Nursing," on December 16 from 2 to 3 p.m.
The Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine is hosting a three-part "Climate Change, Health and Social Justice Lecture Series."
The series will be:
Session 1: From Planet to Patient: Understanding Connections, Issues, and Actions — January 13, Noon to 1 p.m. Register online.
Kudos to Marta Mulawa, assistant professor, on the submission of her proposal to the Duke Global Health Institute Small Research Grant Program for a project entitled: "Supporting the Customization of a Smartphone App to Improve Treatment Adherence among South African Adolescents Living with HIV." This proposal requests funding over a one-year period with a start date as early as January 4, 2021.
Lori Dugan Brien, DNP'19, published her DNP scholarly project, "Implementing a Goal-Directed Therapy Proto
The Graduate School has awarded two Professional Development Grants for the 2021 calendar year, including one to the School of Nursing.