DGHI and the Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health (HYC) have longstanding partnerships with Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Moi University School of Medicine and Public Health and the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) Consortium. In 2006, HYCinitiated bilateral educational exchanges for Kenyan and Duke medical students, residents and, subsequently, Global Health Pathway fellows. This was followed by an award to create a Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Diseases Center of Excellence, construction of a cardiac care unit in 2013, and the creation of the Moi University Cardiology Fellowship training program, which enrolled its first trainees in fall 2019. 

The city of Eldoret is central to several malaria research projects and is a popular site for Duke students to pursue fieldwork. Established in 2019, the Moi-Webuye Partnership for Education and Academic Research Laboratory is the latest development between Moi University, Webuye County Hospital and Duke.

Over the past few years, DGHI faculty have developed partnerships outside of Eldoret, expanding the institute’s research portfolio to other cities such as Nairobi and Kisumu. These partnerships include projects on cancer, mental health, digital health, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, and the health issues of orphaned and abandoned children.