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Duke Kunshan University is a partnership of Duke University, the city of Kunshan in Jiangsu Province, China, and Wuhan University to create a world-class university offering a range of academic offerings for students from China and throughout the world.
The university’s rigorous academic offerings will require students to master academic material, generate new ideas, and develop creative solutions to the world's challenges, preparing them not just for careers in specific fields, but to become a globally sophisticated citizens and leaders.
The DKU campus is located 37 miles west of Shanghai in Kunshan, which is connected to Shanghai via a high-speed train. In addition to a global health and other research centers, DKU offers several graduate degrees and undergraduate programs. For more info, visit http://www.dku.edu.cn.
The Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) and Duke Kunshan University (DKU) seek to hire one full-time postdoctoral fellow to work at an innovative Global Health Research Center established by DKU in Kunshan, China. The DKU Global Health Research Center is a new interdisciplinary program tied closely to health priorities and challenges in China and other Asian countries, and currently focuses on three research areas: health policy and systems, global environmental health, non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs). The postdoctoral fellow will work in the area of NCDs. The fellow is expected to undertake research applied to China and other countries under the supervision of senior faculty from DKU and DGHI, and to contribute to the MSc-Global Health education program at DKU.
DGHI is one of seven interdisciplinary University Institutes at Duke University in Durham, NC. Its mission is to undertake and coordinate global health education and training, research, and policy related programs involving many disciplines throughout the university, including the medical center. For more information on DGHI, please see http://globalhealth.duke.edu/.
This is a 2-year One Health research fellowship for a professional who will work 12 months a year
in the Global Health Research Center at DKU. The incumbent is expected to engage in high quality, One Health-oriented research in the complex area of emerging infectious diseases in China and other low and middle income countries. The incumbent will work as a DKU faculty member under the supervision of Professor Gray from DGHI/DKU and collaborate with other One Health research teams in the Duke-DKU international research network. The postdoctoral trainee holder is expected to demonstrate his/her progress by designing collaborative One Health research projects in partnership with international collaborators, through submitting research grants for funding, and by publishing research in international journals. The incumbent is also expected to be involved in DKU’s global health educational and training programs through occasional lectures, student supervision, etc.