Silberberg Named Faculty Director of New Center for Community Engagement
In this new role, Mina Silberberg, PhD, a professor in the Duke Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, will facilitate greater coordination of community-engaged education and research across the university.
Community Partnership Creates Inclusive Experience for Autistic Moviegoers
The Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development has partnered with the Carolina Theater to provide a safe and welcoming cinema experience for autistic individuals and others in need of sensory accommodations.
Making a House a Home: Student Group Fills Gap for Those Experiencing Homelessness
A program led by Duke University School of Medicine students is helping people who have a history of homelessness make the transition to stable housing easier. In the process, the students are gaining a better understanding of the impact housing can have on health.
Duke-NCCU Partnership Honored with NIH Prize for Excellence in Diversity and Research
Duke University and North Carolina Central University recently received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutional Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) in
Early College Partnership Will Forge More Paths to Careers in Health Care
Meet two Duke Health employees who found their calling thanks to a community collaboration with Durham Technical Community College and Durham Public Schools that's poised to help many others find careers in health care.
A Matter of Faith: Duke Health Partners with A.M.E. Zion Pastors to Rebuild Trust in Health Care
Duke Health is working to rebuild trust in health care by partnering with pillars of the Black community: A.M.E. Zion pastors who have long been pivotal in the struggle for justice, equality, and civil rights. Partnering with pastors makes sense—after all, they’re in the healing business too.
Duke Receives Grant Aimed at Improving Health of Durham Residents
Duke Health, in partnership with the Durham County Department of Public Health, has been awarded a grant totaling $750,000 from The Duke Endowment to support a coalition aimed at improving the health and well-being of Durham residents.
President Price Applauds Research, Innovation at Duke Kannapolis Campus
Duke University President Vincent E. Price visited Duke’s clinical research office at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis today. Duke Kannapolis demonstrates Duke’s commitment to advancing community health and improving lives across the state.
MURDOCK study's COVID-19 project contributes to NC research network that monitors Coronavirus in sewer systems
A Duke COVID-19 study tracking the pandemic in Cabarrus County is contributing data to a statewide research network monitoring the coronavirus in sewer systems to help inform the public health resp
The ABCs of Keeping Kids Healthy
As communities grappled with how to get children and teenagers back to school safely during the COVID-19 pandemic, Zimmerman, MD, MPHS, was confident that she and her colleagues at Duke could help. She saw questions that needed to be answered, and she went to work.