HYC in the News

On Friday, January 21, Drs. Jerry Bloomfield, Rebecca Lumsden and Titus N'geno presented Medicine Grand Rounds with their talk, "Impact in Global Cardiovascular Disease Research and Training: Duke's First 15 Years". You can watch Grand Rounds here:  https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/zYAGAA/ Congratulations to Drs. Bloomfield, Lumsden and N'geno on a fantastic grand rounds discussion.

Congratulations to GHP alumnus Dr. Titus Ngeno and his team for their recent publication in the Annals of Global Health, entitled “Feasibility of Cardiac Rehabilitation Models in Kenya”. Due to the global prevalence and high morbidity of cardiovascular disease, especially in Kenya, Dr. Ngeno and his team of clinician-researchers from both Duke and Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya, set out to evaluate the feasibility of cardiac rehabilitation programs in Western Kenya. Cardiac rehabilitation is effective in improving cardiovascular disease symptoms and is adaptable to many settings. However, it is under-utilized. Dr. Ngeno and his team explored the ability of rehabilitation therapies to be deployed at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Kenya, as well as remotely by patients who live far away. Members of the team from Moi…

You are invited to attend the Global Health Pathway Journal Club on Tuesday, November 30 as Dr. Colin Smith and guest speakers from the Indian Health Service discuss challenges facing the care of Alaska Natives and Native American populations. Details can be found here: https://globalhealth.duke.edu/events/global-health-pathway-journal-club 

Congratulations to Global Health Pathway alumnus, Dr. Titus Ng'eno, on his faculty appointment. Dr. Ng’eno recently joined the Duke Faculty as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology, as of August 1, 2021. Dr. Ng’eno grew up in Nairobi, Kenya and is a graduate of the Oxford Brookes University (UK). He trained in medicine at the University of Nairobi School of medicine (Kenya), before joining Duke University (USA) for his Internal Medicine Residency, and Cardiology Fellowship training. He is also a graduate of the Master of Science in Global Health at Duke, was a Fogarty Global Health Research Fellow, an Advanced Imaging Fellow and a Design Health Fellow at Duke. Dr. Ng’eno’s research is focused on innovative cardiovascular disease interventions, to improve health outcomes. He was a…

A recent webinar from the COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition highlights the strength of Duke's global partnerships with two of our major collaborating institutions, Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC) in Moshi, Tanzania. The webinar, entitled "Setting up biorepositories and increasing sequencing capacity to respond to SARS COV 2 in LMICS"  , was written by Dr. Blandina Mmbaga, a member of the Coalition's Virology, Immunology and Diagnostics working group and a pediatrician and researcher at KCMC in Moshi, Tanzania.  Dr. Chris Woods is co-chair of this group which also includes Dr. Kirtika Patel from one of Duke's longest standing partners, Moi University in Kenya.  The focus of the webinar is the role that biorepositories play in sample preservation, storage and sequencing capabilities in low resource settings…