Front of the Trent Semans Center with dogwood blooms in the foreground.

Mission Driven: Education, Research, Patient Care, and Community Partnership

Duke Climate Commitment

Understanding How Climate Change Impacts Human Health

DrPH. William Pan, of the Duke Global Health Institute and Nicholas School of the Environment, explores how issues such as malaria, human migration due to inhospitable environments and unhealthy iron levels exacerbated by flooding, contribute to humans being more susceptible to infectious and chronic disease, as well as issues with animal and ecosystem health.

Duke Climate Commitment

Hippocratic Oath and Diploma Ceremony

On Friday, May 12, 2023, graduating medical students at Duke University School of Medicine obtained their Doctor of Medicine Degrees and recited the Hippocratic Oath as they formally entered the medical profession as physicians.

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Dean Klotman's Friday Message

June 2, 2023

A Conversation with Eleanora Lad, MD, PhD, associate professor of ophthalmology, about the recent clinical trials that led to the first drug approved the FDA to treat a devastating eye disease called Geographic Atrophy.