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Personal, Environmental & Population Health
Duke engineers are deeply engaged in improving the health of humans and our environment—from understanding and ameliorating disease at the molecular and genetic level, to developing technologies to improve global health, to exploring the interconnections between human health and environmental quality. A hallmark of our approach is extensive collaborations with leading physicians and scientists at Duke’s School of Medicine and Nicholas School of the Environment.
Major Centers & Initiatives
Engineering-Medicine Partnerships
- Duke MEDx (Medicine + Engineering at Duke)
- Duke-Coulter Translational Medicine Partnership
- Also see specific collaborations below
Improving Individual Health
- Advanced Biomedical Imaging & Biophotonics
- Biomaterials Design & Development (BME & MEMS)
- Bioelectric & Neural Engineering
- Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering
- Computational Modeling of Biological Systems
- Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics
- Genetic Engineering & Synthetic Biology
- Kaganov Research Initiative in Pulmonary Medicine & Engineering (with School of Medicine)
- Marcus Center for Cellular Cures (with School of Medicine)
- See more at bme.duke.edu/research
Improving Population Health
- Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies
- Center for WaSH-AID (Water, Sanitation, Hygiene & Infectious Disease)
- Data Analytics for population-scale screening, diagnostics and prognostics
- Duke Global Health Institute (cross-university)
- NiCHES Children's Environmental Health Research Center (with School of Medicine)
- Sherry and John Woo Center for Big Data and Precision Health
