Of modern medicine’s many triumphs, the fact we’re living longer may be the greatest achievement – and one that presents great challenges in enabling seniors to live happily and independently. Members of the DMU community have embraced efforts to find new answers to the “old” problem of our impending “silver tsunami.”
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Des Moines University students Logan McCool, D.O. ’15, and Justin Bloomberg, D.O. ’14, were honored with prizes for their outstanding poster presentations at the 4th Annual Global Health Fall Conference held at DMU on October 17. Twenty graduate and undergraduate
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Des Moines University Global Health and Aging Resources of Central Iowa were honored with the AARP 2012 Partners in Service Award for their work with AARP Iowa to make Des Moines one of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Network
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Tomorrow, October 17, our global health department and the Heartland Global Health Consortium, partnered with Pioneer and Iowa’s Healthiest State Initiative, are again hosting their annual thought-provoking conference. This year’s topic, “partnering for a healthy ecosphere,” is sure to put your
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The Global Health Learning Collaborative is DMU’s student-led, discussion-based seminar that is meant to provide an introduction to global health’s key concepts and principles. Our students’ goal with the Learning Collaborative is to get people thinking critically about social, political
Great food for thought on global health tonight Read More
What do worms, Honduras, and skunk-cabbage have in common? They can all be found in this quarter’s issue of DMU Magazine – ONLINE NOW!
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When Atifete Jahjaga, the president of Kosovo, visited Iowa June 13-15, her itinerary included a tour of DMU. Her visit, part of the U.S. Department of Defense State Partnership Program, represented the first time in history that a Kosovo president
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Beth Runcie is one of four DMU osteopathic medical students who in May and June are on a four-week rotation at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. The rotation is part of DMU’s partnership with Uganda’s Makerere University College of Health
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Yogesh Shah, M.D., associate dean of global health at Des Moines University, has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists project in Rwanda at Kigali Health Institute (KHI), according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright
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Tomorrow is my first day at the hospital – we went for a tour today and it is completely indescribable as almost everything here is. It is divided into Old Mulago and New Mulago. Old is a web of dozens