DukeMed Alumni News
Winter 2008

In Brief:

Duke Offers New Global Health Residency

Beginning in 2008-09, physicians who want extra training in international health will have a new option at Duke.

The Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health and the Duke Global Health Institute have been awarded Duke University Health System funding to begin a new global health residency training program. The program will include study toward a master’s degree in public health and nine months working at one of Duke’s global health sites.

Initially, residents will receive a master’s of public health (MPH) through the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health. Eventually the Global Health Institute intends to offer a master of science degree in global health.

The new residency will be the first program to be supported by Duke’s Graduate Medical Education Innovation Fund, established by Chancellor Victor Dzau, MD, in 2006 as part of a $280 million transfer from the Duke University Health System to the School of Medicine. It builds on a program in existence for more than 20 years in the Department of Medicine.

Nathan Thielman, MD’90, MPH, HS’90-’93, associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and an HIV/AIDS researcher at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Tanzania, has been appointed faculty director of the Global Health Residency Program.

Christopher Woods, MD'94, MPH, HS'94-'97,'99-'02, associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, will be working with the Global Health Institute to develop the master of sciences in global health curriculum.