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What are Healthcare Researchers Doing to Address …

WEBDr. Schenita Davis Randolph, a registered nurse and professor at the Duke School of Nursing, zoomed in a little to highlight what true community engagement looks …

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URL: https://researchblog.duke.edu/2022/02/04/what-are-healthcare-researchers-doing-to-address-health-equity/

Dr. Laura Richman is Defining Health by its Social …

WEBIn 2010, the Affordable Care Act sparked a nationwide debate on the extent of responsibility the American government has over our healthcare. But Dr. Laura …

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Student Researchers Share What They Know About AI and …

WEBHere’s what I learned: Artificial intelligence is a way of training computer systems to complete complex tasks that ordinarily require human thinking, like visual …

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How is Universal Healthcare Like the Waterboarding …

WEBThe Duke Medical Ethics Journal (DMEJ) is an undergraduate publication started in Spring of 2020 that examines conversations around universal patient-doctor …

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Carrying on Dr. King's Legacy: The Fight for Equity in …

WEBOn January 22, 2024. “Of all the forms of inequality” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said in a 1966 press conference, “injustice in health is the most shocking and the most …

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Designing Tomorrow, One Healthcare Innovation at a Time

WEBImagine a live, health-focused version Shark Tank open to the public: presentations from real health professionals, presenting real innovations they developed …

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Benefits of Childhood Mental Health Intervention ‘Ripple …

WEBSeventy percent of U.S. public schools reported an increase in the number of children seeking mental health services during the pandemic and many have struggled …

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Is it Time to Decolonize Global Health Data

WEBDr. Wendy Prudhomme O’Meara, moderator of the Data as a Commodity seminar on Sept. 29 and associate professor at Duke University Medical School in the …

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Opportunities at the Intersection of Technology and …

WEBThese uses of data science, and specifically blockchain and data provenance, show great opportunity at the intersection of technology and healthcare. Having access …

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Medicine's 'Digital Health' Future

WEBDigital health is an expansive field that encompasses many types of products and services in the field of healthcare. Bhosai focused on the challenges to digital …

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Unions: They Do a Body Good

WEBA new Duke study suggests that labor unions are good for your health. The research finds that more unionized American workers consider themselves healthy than …

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The HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Revisiting the Early Days of a Global …

WEBOn June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first cases of a mysterious disease afflicting young, otherwise healthy men in a tiny …

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Quantifying the effects of structural racism on health

WEBDr. Brown’s study posits that structural racism has five key tenets: it is multifaceted, interconnected, an institutionalized system, involves relational …

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Scholars Examine Duke's History of Unequal Medical Care for Black

WEBDuke’s first Black medical student, Delano “Dale” Meriwether, arrived the same year the hospital began desegregation, 1963, and he was the first Black M.D. in …

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Trust in Gynecology: The Impact of Race & Socioeconomic Status …

WEBNikki Mahendru’s mother didn’t go to the gynecologist for 45 years — and when she did, she regretted it. Ms. Mahendru felt “decades of anxieties and hesitancy …

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A Patient’s and Doctor’s Perspective on Narrative Medicine

WEBCreighton, who has an MS in exercise physiology and has spent her career involved in clinical research and community health at both UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke, …

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Increasing Access to Care with the Help of Big Data

WEBArtificial intelligence (AI) and data science have the potential to revolutionize global health. But what exactly is AI and what hurdles stand in the way of more …

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Contact Tracing Is a Call for Ingenuity and Innovation

WEBThe sudden need for contact-tracing technologies to address the Covid-19 pandemic is inspiring some miraculous human ingenuity. Wednesday, December 16 th, …

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Solving More Medical Device Challenges by Teaching Others How

WEBIn this class, interdisciplinary teams of graduate students, ranging from medicine to business, work together to design medical devices. They learn how to …

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Dealing With Lead for Life

WEBBy Cydney Livingston. On September 21, 2020. Though lead has been widely eliminated from use in products due to proven health risks, the lifelong …

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AI Time Travel: Reimagining Ancient Landscapes

WEBA new exhibit in the Rubenstein Arts Center uses AI to bring viewers into ancient Roman and Etruscan landscapes spanning 1300 years, from about 1000 BCE to …

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WEBReversing more than a decade of flat growth in research funding, the federal budget proposal announced Wednesday includes a $2 billion increase for the National Institutes …

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