Are you interested in intercultural learning in education abroad? If so, a workshop will be offered on Dec. 8 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. at Bentley University in Massachusetts. More information, and a link to register is provided below.
The Need to Enhance Intercultural Learning…
AnnMarie Walton recently submitted a pilot grant application to the North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Center. The purpose of the project is to evaluate the extent to which a hand washing educational toolkit impacts farm worker health outreach workers and farm…
The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has launched a new website (https://ttp.cbp.dhs.gov/) for international travelers who are interested in applying for a Trusted Traveler Program to allow expedited processing into the USA. Depending upon your travel needs, the Department of Homeland…
Eun-Ok Im was recently featured in an article on NBCNews.com entitled "She Watched Her Mother Suffer Quietly. Now She's Helping Cancer Survivors Find Help." The article goes into detail about Im's study "To Enhance Breast Cancer Survivorship of Asian Americans."
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PhD students Shaoqing Ge and Matthew LeBlanc recently attended the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students conference in Washington, D.C. Ge and LeBlanc were two of seven students who represented the body of graduate and professional students at Duke University to meet with state…
Margie Molloy and her team were recently awarded a Duke AHEAD Grant in the amount of $4990 for their proposal "Strengthening Simulation Pedagogy through an Interprofessional Faculty Development Program." Molloy's proposal was one of 15 innovative projects reviewed by the grant committee. The…
Staff members Julie Cusatis and Angie Keith will be representing the Duke University School of Nursing at the Duke Leadership Academy's action learning team case study presentation on Thursday, Nov. 16. The presentation event will be held at Duke's Freeman Center for Jewish Life. Cusatis will be…
The purpose of this workshop is to (1) train investigators in the design and conduct of embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) and (2) pilot the educational materials and collect feedback on their quality and appropriateness from both the attendees and the subject matter experts. Travel,…
Kudos to Ryan Shaw and his entire team for the resubmission of their NIH R21 application entitled "Toward Telerobotic Nursing." This proposal requests funding for a two-year period with a start date of July 1, 2018.
During disease outbreaks, such as the Ebola epidemic of 2014–…
Kudos to Eun-Ok Im and Wonshik Chee (MPI) and their entire team for the submission of their NIH R01 application entitled "For Better Cancer Pain Management of Breast Cancer Survivors: Four Major Racial/Ethnic Groups in the U.S." This proposal requests funding for a…
Faculty at the Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) have been working with the Duke Center for Community and Population Health Improvement and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute Community Engagement Core at Duke on a Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute project,…
Schenita Randolph recently presented two oral presentations at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo in Atlanta, GA. Her presentations were entitled "African American father-son communication to prevent STIs, HIV and teen parenthood" and "Feasibility of Using Barbers as…
Duke is proud to offer a new tool to create direct-to-patient mobile research apps through the new CTSI Mobile App Gateway. Medable https://www.medable.com/products/axon/ is a software platform for researchers to create their own ResearchKit or ResearchStack apps…
MSN student Katherine Hall recently presented a poster entitled "Why Cybercivility Matters: A Review of the Twitter Literature" at the 2017 Biennial Research Conference hosted by the STTI Alpha Rho Chapter at the West Virginia University School of Nursing in Morgantown, WV.…
Deb Brandon, Susan Silva and Diane Holditch-Davis were recently notified that their paper entitled "Timing for the Introduction of Cycled Light for Extremely Preterm Infants: A Randomized Controlled Trial" was selected for the Research In Nursing and Health (RINAH) Best Paper Award for 2017.…
Congratulations to Eleanor McConnell and the entire research team who received an award from The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) for her proposal entitled "GWEP-CC Innovative Geriatrics Programs and Approaches to Care." This project was awarded $7,500…
Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda was recently awarded a Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation's Hillman Emergent Innovation grant for her proposal entitled "A smartphone application to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) among young adult Latino immigrants." The project was awarded $50,000 for the…
Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, PhD, MPH, RN, CPH, FAAN, Associate Professor, is the Primary Investigator on a grant awarded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities for more than $3.4 million. This grant will provide resources to improve the health and well-being of young adult…
PhD alum Dennis Flores was recently awarded a Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation's Hillman Emergent Innovation Program grant for his proposal entitled "Parents ASSIST, a program to help gay, bisexual, and queer (GBQ) teenage boys avoid HIV and other sexually transmitted infections by…
Wednesdays at the John Hope Franklin Center: A weekly public lecture series is requesting proposals. The call for proposals will be open from Oct. 6 through Dec. 8.
Wednesdays at the Center (W@TC) is a weekly series in which scholars, artists, journalists, and others speak informally about…
William Falls recently submitted his iPhone photography to GuruShots, a website where photographers can share their photography and enter contests. Four of his photos came in 27th place out of 88,408 photos submitted from around the world. GuruShots offers photographers a fresh and captivating…
Eun-Ok Im, Wonshik Chee and their research team delivered four presentations at the American Public Health Association 2017 annual conference in Atlanta, GA. Their research team includes postdoctoral associate Sangmi Kim and others from the TICAA research team. Their…
The Call for Abstracts for the 13th Annual DukeHealth Patient Safety and Quality Conference is now open. Abstracts can be submitted here: 2018qualityconferenceabstractsubmissionsite
Deadline for submission is Monday, Nov. 27, 2017 by 5 p.m. No late abstracts will be accepted.
If you have…
The Duke Human Vaccine Institute has received a $12.8 million, 30-month grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a system capable of halting viral pandemics within 60 days. The program, called DARPA Pandemic Prevention Platform (P3…
Kudos to Isaac Lipkus and his entire team for the submission of their NIH R21 application entitled: "Exploring Reactions to Health Warnings on Waterpipe Tobacco Ads." This proposal requests funding for a 16-month period with a start date of July 1, 2018.
Waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS) is…