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DURHAM, N.C. – Duke Health is part of a multi-institution research team receiving federal Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) funding to develop an osteoarthritis treatment that regenerates joints.

OTD faculty members Antoine L. Bailliard, PhD, and 

Dear OTD Community,

OTD faculty members will serve as panelists and the featured speakers at this Duke Divinity School event on March 4. Please join us for a conversation on disability in education, accommodations, and Universal Design for Learning.

Join us on March 7 for an enriching participant-led event hosted by the Duke Chapter of Coalition Occupational Therapy Advocates for Diversity (COTAD), where we celebrate the diverse array of cultural activities of everyday life. This interactive showcase will highlight the significance of culturally meaningful and instrumental daily living activities (ADL/IADL) in various communities worldwide.

On March 21, join OTD faculty member Denise Nepveux, PhD, OTR/L, and various university, government, and nonprofit organizations across the state for sessions that will address multifaceted ways the climate crisis intersects with the everyday activities of farmworkers – for example, dangerously high average temperatures during farming seasons – and emerging strategies for the protection of farmworker health, safety, and rights. 
 

Duke OTD and DPT students and faculty recently met with students at the City of Medicine Academy's career fair on Feb. 7. 

Duke Occupational Therapy Doctorate (OTD) division faculty members MaryBeth Gallagher, PhD, and Antoine Bailliard, PhD, have launched an innovative community-based mental health non-profit. The Center for Community Connection (C4CC), led by executive director Darren Peters, an occupational therapist, will promote well-being, mental health equity, and occupational justice by enhancing participation in meaningful activities and cultivating human social connection. 
 

Last week, I featured a few of occupational therapy's Black "elders," whose leadership, education, and scholarship were like stories that illumined paths that, if taken, would make occupational therapy stronger. Paths, for example, toward desegregation and attending to diversity and health disparities; paths toward addressing community health and wellness through occupation, generating robust evidence and theory supporting the effects of occupation on health.

Have you considered volunteering as a student representative within the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)? Let us know! We would love to feature your effort(s) and encourage OTD peers to have an active ‘voice’ within OT professional organizations.