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