From groundbreaking research to transformative learning experiences in the field, all of our activities are rooted in partnership. Our faculty, staff, and students engage with partners in dozens of countries, working collaboratively to solve complex health challenges, build research capacity and skills, and train the next generation of global health leaders. These partnerships, built through years of listening and mutual trust, create a powerful foundation for advancing health equity in the communities where we work.

DGHI has active research projects with partners in more than 40 countries around the world. The regions listed below encompass our broadest and longest-running partnerships, where collaborations cover a diverse range of topics and include bilateral education and capacity-building initiatives. In addition to the in-country partners listed below, DGHI also works with many global and multinational institutions, including the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Partners in Health, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Some of DGHI’s longest-running partnerships are in East Africa, where researchers have been working with African academic and medical institutions since the 1990s to advance the delivery of world-class healthcare and address critical public health needs across sub-Saharan Africa. These flourishing collaborations have led to the first training program for neurosurgery in Uganda, the first center of excellence for cardiovascular care in Kenya, and a succession of training programs in Tanzania addressing such health challenges as HIV, febrile illnesses, trauma care and mental health. Partnerships are continuing to expand across the region, including developing collaborations in Rwanda and an emerging cross-national partnership to address the health impacts of climate change.

Anchored by Duke’s two academic ventures in Asia – Duke Kunshan University in China and the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore – DGHI has nurtured deep partnerships across South and Southeast Asia.  Our collaborations across the region are addressing a range of health issues facing the fast-growing region, including access to vaccines , identifying novel infectious disease threats, managing the rise of chronic diseases, and investigating the impact of climate and environmental changes on vulnerable workers and populations.

DGHI faculty, staff and students have been working in the vast Amazon region since 2011, helping identify ways to protect the vitally important resource from environmental damage and improve health outcomes for the many communities that call the forested region home. Notable collaborations in recent years have documented the health impacts of environmental contamination from mining, optimal distribution of emergency services, and the impact of deforestation and climate change on the spread of infectious diseases.

In the spirit that all global health is local, the Duke Global Health Institute is committed to addressing health disparities in our own communities. Since the institute’s founding, students, faculty and staff have been engaged in projects across our state, working with local partners to improve access to health services, nutrition and readiness for natural disasters.