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Emory Global Health Institute Newsletter Institute Announces Global Health Student Photography Contest Awardees
During a February awards ceremony, the Emory Global Health Institute honored students who submitted outstanding photographs as part of its 2008 Global Health Student Photography Contest. The Institute received close to 150 submissions from students across the University, with five students submitting winning photographs and eight students submitting honorable mention photographs. Students who submitted winning photographs included: Brian Chu, Rita Jen, Julia Phillips, and Heidi Soeters, all recent graduates of the Rollins School of Public Health, and Jonathan Sherrill, a graduate of the Emory University School of Medicine's Physician Assistants Program. Students whose photographs were awarded Honorable Mention included: Bethany Caruso, Brian Chu, Samantha Huffman, Nayla Khoury, Lydia Lu, Francois Rollin, Heidi Soeters, and Caitlin Worrell. To view the winning photographs with descriptions written by the student photographers, please click here. You can view all of the 2008 student submissions here. The purpose of the photography contest is to foster cultural sensitivity by encouraging Emory students conducting global health projects to examine the culture and people with whom they are working. The contest is sponsored by Mr. Robert Yellowlees, an Atlanta business leader, philanthropist, photographer, and founder of Lumière Gallery. Contest judges included Laura Noel, a professional photographer who works with Mr. Yellowlees; Jason Francisco, a photographer and professor in Emory's Visual Arts Department; and Margaret Schufeldt, Curator of Works on Paper at the Carlos Museum. If you're interested in participating in the 2009 Global Health Student Photography Contest, please view our guidelines here. Inaugural Global Development and Health Week Draws Large Student Interest
In April, the Institute co-sponsored two events that were part of Emory's first Global Development and Health Week. These events included a case competition focusing on a global health challenge and a symposium that brought together business and global development leaders. Both of these events were student-initiated and student-coordinated, which no doubt contributed to the enthusiastic and large student responses they received. The Global Health Case Competition was the brainchild of second-year Goizueta Business School students Brian Goebel, Tony Anani, and Jessica Prince. These students worked with the Institute and its Student Advisory Committee to further develop and coordinate the competition, which was the first of its kind at Emory. Sponsored by the Institute, the Candler School of Theology, and the Graduate Student Senate, the Global Health Case Competition brought students from across Emory to compete in multidisciplinary teams on a case addressing severe childhood malnutrition in Ethiopia. Eight five-member teams had five days to prepare their cases, which they presented to a panel of four judges. First- and second-place teams received cash prizes. To learn more about the Global Health Case Competition, click here. The Global Development and Health Symposium was developed and coordinated by Chris Brown, also a second-year Goizueta Business School student. Brown worked with Institute and Goizueta Business School leadership as well as with members of the Institute's Student Advisory Committee to bring internationally known leaders in development and business together to discuss how the two communities can work together to foster profitable businesses and healthy populations around the world. To learn more about the Global Development and Health Symposium, click here. The Institute's Student Advisory Committee will be coordinating similar events in spring 2010, please check our website for more information. You can also contact Suzanne Mason at smason@sph.emory.edu for information on these events and how to become involved with the Student Advisory Committee. 2009 Working Across Cultures Workshop Focuses on Health and Safety
The spring 2009 Working Across Cultures Workshop, entitled "Keeping Healthy and Safe While Working Across Cultures," focused on health and security issues. A collaboration among the Department of Anthropology, the Emory Ethics Center, the Center for International Programs Abroad, the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, the Rollins School of Public Health, the NIH-Fogarty Framework in Global Health Grant, the Emory University School of Medicine, and the Emory Global Health Institute, the workshop was open to any Emory student planning to travel abroad in the coming year. Workshop speakers included: Melinda Simon, Associate General Counsel, Emory University; Dr. Michael Huey, Executive Director of Student Health Services, Emory University; Dr. Stanley Foster, Professor of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health; Carmen Michielin, Director of Security Personnel, CARE USA; and Andries Dreyer, who has served as a Senior Security Advisor for a number of international organizations. Videos of the 2009 workshop are available here. Please check our website or contact Suzanne Mason at smason@sph.emory.edu for information about the 2010 Working Across Cultures Workshop. Defining Global Health and the U.S. Commitment to It
The term "global health" has become increasingly popular during the last few years, however, its meaning often depends on the person using it and the context in which it is used. In response to this phenomenon, Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, Director of the Institute and Vice President for Global Health at the University, and his colleagues at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health have authored an article to be published in the June 6th issue of The Lancet. In the article, they explain their definition of global health and how it is different from public health and international health. To read the article in its entirety, click here. Dr. Koplan also recently served on the committee that drafted the Institute of Medicine's Report entitled, The U.S. Commitment to Global Health: Recommendations for the Public and Private Sectors. You can read the report free of charge here. You can watch Dr. Koplan and his colleagues Ruth Levine, Vice President and Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, and Maria Freire, President of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, discuss the report with Jen Kates of the Kaiser Family Foundation here. Global Health Profiles
The Emory community is full of extraordinary people working on numerous global health challenges. In its Global Health Profiles section, the Institute highlights the work of Emory students, faculty members, fellows, and staff members who are working to advance global health efforts around the world. In this newsletter, the Institute profiles: Oby Obyerodhyambo, a spring 2009 Community Partners Leadership Fellow who has devoted his career to combating HIV/AIDS in his native Kenya; and Catherine Armbruster, a recent Rollins School of Public Health graduate who spent last summer in India working with the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation and who at a very young age has combined her interests in infectious diseases, chronic diseases, and filmmaking with a compelling result. Click here to learn more about Mr. Obyerodhyambo and here to learn more about Ms. Armbruster.
For more information about the Emory Global Health Institute, please visit our website at www.globalhealth.emory.edu
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