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Dennis Clements, MD, PhD, professor of global health and senior adviser at the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), has been named as DGHI’s interim director.

The herculean efforts to re-start Duke’s campus and medical school research laboratories are nearly complete.  Thousands of lab workers, kept from their benches and equipment for months by the COVID pandemic, are shaking off the cobwebs and getting back to work generating data. But with some significant differences.  “I think it'll take me a few weeks to actually get back into the rhythm,” said Tatiana Segura, a professor of biomedical engineering who has a large team in two laboratory spaces in Fitzpatrick-CIEMAS.

More resources and health protections are critical to protect Hispanic communities – many filled with essential workers – during the ongoing pandemic says three Duke health experts.

 A panel of Duke University researchers and Durham community partners met recently in an online public forum to discuss the social, biomedical, and healthcare drivers behind these disparities and what can be done to help those impacted.

The Duke flag is being lowered across campus in honor of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's national moment of silence being held today (Thursday) for George Floyd, who was killed by Minneapolis police in late May. The flag will be lowered from noon Thursday to noon Friday. First published in Duke Today

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More than 1,500 researchers back in labs with more buildings to reopen shortly Two weeks into a deliberate, rolling reopening of university labs, more than 1,500 university researchers are back at the lab bench, working under carefully developed protocols designed to protect employee health and safety. While the process is continuing and there are still labs to reopen, the restart of laboratory research at Duke is one of the clearest signs of the university returning to core missions.