The Special Populations Core facilitates research that promotes health equity for populations that have traditionally been under-represented in health research or excluded altogether, including:

  • Infants and children/pediatric populations (birth to 21 years)

  • Adolescents and young adults

  • Older adults    

  • People with disabilities and/or rare disorders

  • People who have been underserved or underrepresented in clinical research (e.g., African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, rural populations or populations with low socioeconomic status).

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What We Do

  • Provide resources to accelerate and amplify life course and disparities research

  • Build workforce capacity in life course and health disparities research.

  • Expand professional networks of life course and disparities investigators

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Leadership

Keisha Bentley-Edwards, PhD
Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine
Associate Director of Research, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity
keisha.bentley.edwards@duke.edu

Dwight Koeberl, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics (Medical Genetics) and Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Duke University School of Medicine
koebe001@mc.duke.edu

K.K. Lam, PhD 
Clinical Health Project Leader, CTSI
kk.lam@duke.edu

Jillian Hurst, PhD
Director, Children’s Health and Discovery Initiative (CHDI)
Assistant Professor in Pediatrics
jillian.hurst@duke.edu

Sydney Sullivan, MPH
ISP Research Program Manager
sydney.sullivan@duke.edu