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The Duke Department of Population Health Sciences held its inaugural Climate x PopHealth symposium on April 8. The symposium titled, “Innovative Strategies for Addressing Climate-Related Health Challenges,” brought together experts from a variety of disciplines to discuss novel approaches to tackling the health impacts of climate change.

Duke University Health System will implement electronic monitoring of patients’ self-reported symptoms during cancer treatment — potentially 

Current MS student Francisca Hammond interviewed alum Parker Ince, a public health data scientist.

The National Institutes of Health's proposal to cap reimbursement of facilities and administrative (F&A) costs on research grants at 15% would significantly slow or cease scientific and biomedical research at Duke and other research institutions. Here is an explanation of what F&A costs are and why they are such a critical piece of the research endeavor.

Amy Corneli, PhD, is a professor in population health sciences at Duke University School of Medicine.

Read the interview conducted by Wei Xu, a current Master' student in Population Health Sciences.

BRIDGE Scholar and PhD student Andrea Thoumi is senior author of “Naming and Framing: Six Principles for Embedding Health Equity Language in Policy Research, Writing, and Practice,” published in the Milbank Quarterly in February 2025. The authors identified and described guiding principles to dismantle systems that work against the goals of health equity through policy-focused research, writing, and communications. Read the publication.

Celebrating Population Health’s New Full Professors

 

In patients with type 2 diabetes, a head-to-head comparison of the two most common types of bariatric surgery found that both may be effective for reducing long-term health care costs.