Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Congratulations to Nicoleta Economou, PhD, new director for the Duke Health AI Evaluation & Governance Program! #DukeCTSI will support E&G program operations. The program operates under the leadership of Michael J. Pencina, PhD, chief data scientist at Duke Health and director of our?Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Pillar. Details: duke.is/y/2fgv

?? A poster featuring the Duke-NCCU Bridge Office won the Equity Award at the 2024 Fall CTSA Program Annual Meeting! NCCU's Undi Hoffler, Ph.D. depicted the innovative partnership, which increases workforce diversity in the clinical and translational sciences. Congratulations! Learn more: duke.is/DukeNCCU

Kudos to our colleagues at the Duke Center for Autism & Brain Development / Duke Autism Center of Excellence who are working to make #autism research more accessible to Spanish-speaking communities! The SenseToKnow research team offers interpretation and translation services, and all study materials are not only understandable but culturally appropriate. Their mobile app will help to improve early autism screening. Great work! ?? Details: duke.is/g/mkxz

??? We highly recommend this article by Keisha Bentley-Edwards, PhD, co-director for the #DukeCTSI Center for Equity in Research. Another #GreatRead! Co-written with Valerie Adams-Bass

?? People who live in rural areas are often underrepresented or excluded from clinical research, which can impact science and health equity. The #DukeCTSI Special Populations team and Duke University School of Nursing studied the issue. Their work was published by ASCPT Journal Family. Read the story ?? duke.is/c/m8av Read the paper ?? duke.is/b/jdt3

??New funding!?? #DukeCTSI offers grants for community-based organizations in, around, and near #DurhamNC to promote health and nutrition for marginalized communities, focusing on chronic and communicable diseases. Thank you to Duke University Health System and Duke University School of Medicine, our partners in the Community Initiative to?Advance Health Equity grant program. Read more >> duke.is/4/zamd Apply >> duke.is/9/s8nf #CommunityHealth #HealthGrants #HealthEquity

The Duke CTSI Career Development Award (CDA) program is pleased to announce?Asheley Skinner, PhD, as the new co-director. Skinner is a professor in population health sciences in?the Duke Department of Medicine. Additionally, the CDA program welcomes two new awardees —?Allison Martin, MD, whose research project will focus on rural cancer health equity, and Nicholas Turner, MD, MHSc, whose research will help decipher the progression from C. difficile colonization to disease. Learn more about the CDA program: https://lnkd.in/dt3ipdTU

New?research?by the?Recruitment Innovation Center?(RIC) found that culturally tailored studies can be good experiences for Latinx participants and that a perception survey can be administered successfully to evaluate and improve their research experience. The Salud Estres y Resilencia (SER) Hispano study is a longitudinal cohort of young adult Latinx immigrants who completed the Research Participant Perception Survey (RPPS) to assess their experiences. The?RIC team, along with the Duke Office for Clinical Research (DOCR), plan to roll out implementation of the perception survey on a wider scale for Duke clinical research. Full article: https://duke.is/5/yyjh

Physician-scientists lead the clinical research studies and trials that help us better understand health and disease in partnership with our communities. Thank you to the Duke Office of Physician-Scientist Development for investing in these remarkable researchers. Congratulations to the #DukeCTSI OPSD on five years of excellence! ?? duke.is/OPSD

CTSI's Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERI) is #hiring a project planner focused on developing resources and tools to support the coordinated activities. Learn more & apply: https://lnkd.in/eRcY6cKb