Our Impact

Explore the many ways DGHI is improving health outcomes and access in communities around the world.

Explore Our Impact

Each year our annual report highlights DGHI's research, education and partnership around the world. View the 2024-25 Report, Choosing Hope now.

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Past Reports

Ideas Without Boundaries

INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH: We bring together the best minds to work on the world’s toughest health challenges.

Research team meeting in the field in Panama
Research News

Two Countries Adopt Malaria Forecasting System Developed at Duke

Sri Lankan farmers
Research News

Feeling the Heat

Pre-op
Research News

Eyes on a Miracle

Simple Solutions that Scale

INNOVATION: We spark innovations that create better health outcomes worldwide.

DGHI Professor Tamara Fitzgerald
Research News

Making It Work in Uganda

Flexible nasopharyngoscope
Research News

The Simple Medical Device That Could Help Doctors Detect Throat Cancer

HPV testing at health fair in Kenya
Research News

The Promise of Self-Testing to Prevent Cervical Cancer

Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn

EDUCATION AND TRAINING: We prepare students to make a world of difference.

Pamlico SRT
Education News

Students Aid Rural Pamlico County in Improving Health Access

Sydney Chen at Lumumba Sub-County Hospital
Education News

Duke Students Launch Childcare Center in Kenya

Hana Zwick
Education News

For These Master’s Students, Practice is Perfect

Partnering for Change

COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING: We work side-by-side with communities to address the challenges they identify.

Breakout training session
Partnerships

The Duke Partnership Behind Rwanda's Most Successful Epidemic Response

Workers at a gold mine in Ecuagor
Research News

Breaking Mercury’s Stubborn Hold on Gold

First cohort of Treck graduates
Partnerships

Tanzanian Injury Research Program Graduates Its First Students 


Guided by Evidence

POLICY ANALYSIS AND ADVOCACY: We advance healthcare solutions that create real results.

Doctor treating patient
Research News

Every Country Can Cut Premature Deaths by Half, Researchers Say

local people near the pharmacy in the village
Commentary

Envisioning the Future for a Celebrated Global AIDS Program

HPV vaccines in China
Partnerships

The Duke Project Behind China’s Move to Expand Immunizations

Global Is Local, Local Is Global

GLOBAL HEALTH AT HOME: We bring global perspective to health disparities in our own community.

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DGHI In the Media

One sleep or two? Understanding the debate over segmented sleep

DGHI SRT Team in Pamlico County
Education News

Moving from Surviving to Thriving

Eve Puffer in Kenya
Research News

A Family Support Model Developed in Kenya Comes to North Carolina