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What are Healthcare Researchers Doing to Address Health Equity

WEBDr. Schenita Davis Randolph, a registered nurse and professor at the Duke School of Nursing, zoomed in a little to highlight what true community engagement looks …

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Dr. Laura Richman is Defining Health by its Social Determinates

WEBIn 2010, the Affordable Care Act sparked a nationwide debate on the extent of responsibility the American government has over our healthcare. But Dr. Laura …

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Student Researchers Share What They Know About AI and Health

WEBHere’s what I learned: Artificial intelligence is a way of training computer systems to complete complex tasks that ordinarily require human thinking, like visual …

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How is Universal Healthcare Like the Waterboarding Debate

WEBThe Duke Medical Ethics Journal (DMEJ) is an undergraduate publication started in Spring of 2020 that examines conversations around universal patient-doctor …

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Carrying on Dr. King's Legacy: The Fight for Equity in Obesity

WEBOn January 22, 2024. “Of all the forms of inequality” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said in a 1966 press conference, “injustice in health is the most shocking and the most …

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Trust-Building, Re-Visited History, and Time Pertinent to Achieve

WEBWinn began by referencing the U.S. 1932 public health service study that took place in Tuskegee, Alabama. The experiment exploited Black men in Tuskegee …

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Quantifying the effects of structural racism on health

WEBDr. Brown’s study posits that structural racism has five key tenets: it is multifaceted, interconnected, an institutionalized system, involves relational …

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Black Americans’ Vaccine Hesitancy is Grounded in More Than …

WEBCovid-19 is considered a “general pandemic,” but its impacts have been disproportionate along the lines of race and ethnicity. Though vaccines may serve as our …

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Benefits of Childhood Mental Health Intervention ‘Ripple Across

WEBSeventy percent of U.S. public schools reported an increase in the number of children seeking mental health services during the pandemic and many have struggled …

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Opportunities at the Intersection of Technology and Healthcare

WEBThese uses of data science, and specifically blockchain and data provenance, show great opportunity at the intersection of technology and healthcare. Having access …

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Scholars Examine Duke's History of Unequal Medical Care for Black

WEBDuke’s first Black medical student, Delano “Dale” Meriwether, arrived the same year the hospital began desegregation, 1963, and he was the first Black M.D. in …

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The HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Revisiting the Early Days of a Global …

WEBOn June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first cases of a mysterious disease afflicting young, otherwise healthy men in a tiny …

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Leveraging Google’s Technology to Improve Mental Health

WEBUnderlining the critical role Google plays in global mental health, Bell cited multiple statistics: three out of four people turn to the internet first for health information. …

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Increasing Access to Care with the Help of Big Data

WEBArtificial intelligence (AI) and data science have the potential to revolutionize global health. But what exactly is AI and what hurdles stand in the way of more …

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Doctors Share a Vision for Ending Preventable Blindness

WEBIn late September, the Duke Global Ophthalmology Program hosted the A Vision for Ending Preventable Blindness panel to address the global scope of vision …

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Trust in Gynecology: The Impact of Race & Socioeconomic Status …

WEBNikki Mahendru’s mother didn’t go to the gynecologist for 45 years — and when she did, she regretted it. Ms. Mahendru felt “decades of anxieties and hesitancy …

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Post-COVID Public Health is in a Trust Fall

WEBPost-COVID Public Health is in a Trust Fall. Dr. Heidi Larson, director of the Vaccine Confidence Project, described data from a recent Pew Center study, instructing …

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Introducing: The Duke Space Initiative

WEBAt Duke Polis’ “ Perspectives on Space: Introducing the Duke Space Initiative ” on Sept. 9, DSI co-founder and undergraduate student Ritika Saligram …

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Solving More Medical Device Challenges by Teaching Others How

WEBIn this class, interdisciplinary teams of graduate students, ranging from medicine to business, work together to design medical devices. They learn how to …

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Igniting U.S. health care's 'escape fire'

WEBEscape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare showcases the health care system’s metaphorical blaze. The award-winning documentary, described …

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Faculty Archives

WEBReversing more than a decade of flat growth in research funding, the federal budget proposal announced Wednesday includes a $2 billion increase for the National Institutes …

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Robin Smith, Author at Research Blog

WEBEllie Burton’s summer job might be described as “dental detective.” Using 3-D images of bones, she and teammates Kevin Kuo and GiSeok Choi are teaching a computer to …

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