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Anna Strasma, MD, MSc-GH
A Rising Tide of Kidney Disease in Rural Communities
By Shantell M. Kirkendoll
A new wave of kidney disease is ravaging rural farming communities across the globe, and climate change may be at its heart.
Zainab Samad, MBBS, MHS speaks with colleagues

Duke's Samad named Chairwoman of Dept. of Medicine at Aga Khan University in Pakistan

On July 1, 2018, Zainab Samad, MBBS, MHS, associate professor of Medicine at Duke, became the first chairwoman of the Department of Medicine at Aga Khan University in Pakistan, her alma mater. This is quite an accomplishment for anyone, but in particular for a woman from a highly conservative Pashtun family in northern Pakistan. There, young girls traditionally were not allowed to attend school in accordance with the practice of purdah, the global religious idea that women should be physically segregated from men.

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