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headlines The goal is for SEAD to become a hub for faculty and students interested in global health and international development. pants will combine their expertise in technology, social impact, and healthcare innovations to tackle issues of global health. Because many early-stage social enterprises lack the funds they need to grow their operations, SEAD also aims to help participating social entrepreneurs learn to attract capital. That effort will be led by the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship in collaboration with Durham-based Investors��� Circle, an early-stage impact investing network. The goal is for SEAD to become ���a virtual hub for faculty and students interested in global health, international development, innovation and entrepreneurship, and civic engagement,��� says Matt Nash, the center���s executive director. The creation of SEAD came about as Duke was named one of the founding partners of the Higher Education Solutions Network, a new USAID initiative that relies on universities to create breakthrough development solutions. The other six partners are the University of California in Berkeley, the College of William and Mary, Michigan State, Texas A&M, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Makerere University in Uganda. For more information, see www.usaid.gov/hesn. DUKE UNIVERSITY in Durham, North Carolina, has received a US$10 million award from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The money will fund the launch of the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), a global health development lab that supports solutions to global health challenges in low- and middle-income countries. SEAD is a joint initiative among the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke���s Fuqua School of Business, the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery at Duke Medicine, and the Duke Global Health Institute. The initiative will be undertaken in collaboration with the Developing World Healthcare Technology Lab at Duke���s Pratt School of Engineering. These multidisciplinary partici- 10 March/April 2013 BizEd TAR E N R I LEY/G LOW I MAG ES Advancing Global Health