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October 11, 2004 Volume 13 No. 20

ADDRESSING GLOBAL HEALTH
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhumane.” -- The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Listening to Paul Farmer, M.D., you quickly get a sense of the unfair burden of disease on this earth:

• Tuberculosis, a curable disease, is still the leading cause of death of young adults globally.

• The life expectancy of people in many countries in Africa is only half of that in developed countries, largely due to high infant mortality and raging infectious diseases.

• Less than 5 percent of the 40 million people worldwide...

Paul Farmer, M.D., a Harvard physician and Duke alumnus, challenged Duke medical students to bring health equity issues to the forefront. “It is your generation that will help bring this idea into the mainstream,” he said. Farmer was visiting Duke to help raise awareness of the need -- and opportunity -- for Duke to take a leading role in addressing global health equity.

	Katz Receives University Medal for Service Duke honors Samuel L. Katz, M.D., champion of immunization, for his contribution to Duke and to humanity. It’s not often we say one person’s work saved millions of lives, but when speaking of Samuel...
	Professional Development Seminars for Faculty Faculty eagerly attend seminars to learn how to efficiently compete for funds. Ann Brown, M.D., remembers vividly her first attempt to write a K grant for funding from the...
	Does God Wear a White Coat? School of Medicine and Divinity School faculty debate how religion and medicine mix. Students from the schools of Medicine, Divinity and Law, along with community members of Durham...
	Congratulations 2004 FRIENDS of NURSING WINNERS The grateful family of a Duke patient established the Friends of Nursing program in 1988 as a way...
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	What’s Up With the Flu? Due to a manufacturing problem, the United States is experiencing a serious shortage of flu...