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Essential reading from USA Today: Ramirez, M. (2024, May 24). For American clergy, the burdens of their calling increasingly threaten mental well-being. USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/26/clergy-mental-health-struggles-workload-political-climate/73706621007/

Essential reading from Duke's Trinity College of Arts & Sciences: Duke University Trinity College of Arts & Sciences (2024, April 25). Does madness pay? Nima Bassiri explores madness and enterprise. https://trinity.duke.edu/news/does-madness-pay-nima-bassiri-explores-madness-and-enterprise

Experts from disciplines across Duke are strengthening their partnership to address an emerging health priority The newest research center within the Duke Global Health Institute isn’t really new at all. But the formal establishment of the Duke Center for Global Mental Health is expected to focus even greater attention on an area of critical research need. The World Health Organization reported a 13 percent increase in mental health disorders in the last decade. Around 20 percent of the world’s children and adolescents have a mental health condition, according to the WHO. But many low- and middle-income countries have too few trained mental health providers to keep up with rising demands. Tanzania, for example, has just 55 psychologists and psychiatrists in a nation with more than 60 million people. The new…

"In South Africa, a DGHI researcher is testing how mobile technology could help reverse a troubling trend among adolescents with HIV." Essential reading from Duke Global Health Institute: Duke Global Health Institute (2023, September 20). Can a phone app deliver more teen-friendly HIV care? https://globalhealth.duke.edu/news/can-phone-app-deliver-more-teen-friendly-hiv-care

"DGHI’s Eric Green explains how chat technology can expand access to health services, with some help from ChatGPT." Essential reading from the Duke Global Health Institute: Duke Global Health Institute (2023, April 5). Can chatbots improve health equity? Let’s ask one. https://globalhealth.duke.edu/news/can-chatbots-improve-health-equity-lets-ask-one

My summer fieldwork showed me that to treat the body, you sometimes first have to treat the mind. There is a small room at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC). It holds a table, a coffee machine, a couple of utensils and a huge green thermos that’s always filled with tea. It overlooks a lovely garden, and often, you will find student nurses and staff engaged in animated conversation with each other. I love that room; it is a cheerful room. The other rooms in the center don’t quite hold the same cheer. They have an air of urgency and somberness that that causes voices to hush and steps to quicken as people approach. In these rooms, men, women and children receive treatment for various cancers. My workstation, the cancer…

"Duke researchers have launched a new program to address poor health outcomes for LGBTQIA+ individuals in the U.S. and around the globe." Essential reading from Duke Global Health Institute: Duke Global Health Institute (2020, May 29). Health disparities among sexual and gender minorities mark a serious under-addressed need. https://globalhealth.duke.edu/news/health-disparities-among-sexual-and-gender-minorities-mark-serious-under-addressed-need