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The Population Health Opioid Collaboratory worked with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Injury and Violence Prevention Branch and interviewed 72 local health department representatives and stakeholders to identify features for effective planning and implementation of overdose prevention programs.

Dr. Muiruri will use his two-year, $150K award to study African Americans living with HIV, determining the most salient modifiable barriers they face in achieving blood pressure control by adapting and testing the feasibility of a clinic-based intervention.

The Biden administration invested in the more expensive Ellume home Covid-19 test that digitally transmits results to the manufacturer and can report to public health officials.

Despite COVID and working with a vulnerable population, Kiran Grover has successfully managed the EXTRA-CVD trial, a multi-component nurse intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in virally suppressed patients living with HIV.

Drs. Brystana Kaufman, Corinna Sorenson, and Nathan Boucher were accepted to the 2021 LEADER Program for junior faculty who are leading a research group and driving their own research agenda.

Dr. Virginia Wang will work on skill development, personal reflection and goal setting, peer-mentoring, and get structured 360 feedback when she becomes part of the School of Medicine ALICE Program.

Dr. Eric Perakslis will be the new Chief Science & Digital Officer at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, but his appointment sits in the Department of Population Health Sciences.

Dr. Emily O'Brien discusses the HERO-Together study with Dean Mary E. Klotman. The study looks at the quality of life of healthcare workers after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine

Hannah Lane, PhD, and team describe how dissemination & implementation research that studies the pandemic response can inform policies that will improve hunger.

This year's list, tracked by Clarivate's Web of Science, includes 37 scholars from Duke, Dr. Curtis being one of them.