The Translating Duke Health Initiative is a multi-disciplinary, multi-year commitment to harness the expertise and knowledge found at Duke to address society’s most significant scientific and healthcare challenges and fulfill the vision of making discoveries and transforming health for millions.

Translating Duke Health capitalizes on Duke Health's collective strengths in research, clinical care, and population health to address major health challenges by focusing on areas where Duke Health can have the greatest impact on transformative treatments and prevention strategies. Translating Duke Health accelerates and enhances collaborations across Duke among the scientific, clinical, population health, big data science and computing communities.

 

Biomedical research is accelerating innovative and revolutionary advancements in the understanding of human biology, health and healthcare and opening doors to a depth of research potential unimaginable even a decade ago. The Translating Duke Health Initiative is a multi-disciplinary, multi-year commitment to harness the expertise and knowledge found at Duke to address society’s most significant scientific and healthcare challenges and fulfill the vision of making discoveries and transforming health for millions.

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