Research Professor of Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University Professor of Global Health, Duke Kunshan University
Abu Abdullah, MD., PhD is Research Professor of Global Health at Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) at Duke University and Professor of Global Health at Duk
Professor Abdullah's current teaching and research is focused in the prevention and control of chronic non communicable diseases (NCDs) in low and middle income countries (LMICs) through programs that address heart disease, stroke, hypertension, and diabetes and common risk factors for these conditions such as tobacco use, alcohol misuse, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, overweight/obesity, and mental illnesses. He also conducts research on HIV/AIDS epidemiology and global health development. His recent research also focuses on the use of mobile health (mHealth) and information and communication technology (ICT) to promote global health research and training. Professor Abdullah has considerable experience (as Principal Investigator or Co-investigator) in several epidemiological, behavioral and health services research projects in Asia and has worked in different areas including chronic disease prevention, infectious disease, travel medicine and health services and policy research in LMICs. Professor Abdullah has written few book chapters and has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications covering several emerging aspects of public health. Professor Abdullah periodically provides consultancy services on health improvement, global health research, and public health policy initiatives to international organizations and governments agencies.
Assistant Professor of Science and Global Health at Duke Kunshan University
Dr. Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Science and Global Health at Duke Kunshan University. Dr.
Assistant Professor of Duke Kunshan University
Dr. Chenkai Wu is an Assistant Professor of Global Health at Duke Kunshan University (DKU).
Professor, Infectious Diseases, Global and Environmental Health, Duke University;
Professor of Global Health, Duke Kunshan University;
Professor, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
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He leads the Duke One Health Network which involves more than 30 professionals studying more than 30 pathogens under 30 research and training projects running in 11 countries: China, Iraq, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, South Africa, the Philippines, the United States, and Vietnam (see the Duke One Health web site at: http://sites.globalhealth.duke.edu/dukeonehealth/).
Dr. Gray has conducted diverse epidemiological studies of infectious diseases for 25 years in 5 continents. He has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters. Much of his work has involved identifying risk factors for occupational diseases, particularly for respiratory virus infections. He has studied numerous occupational groups including farmers, animal breeders, veterinarians, military personnel, turkey workers, poultry workers, horse workers, hunters, and pig workers. A strong supporter for the One Health approach, he has won multiple One Health research and training grants, helped to established centers of One Health (USA, Romania, China) and developed 4 graduate programs in One Health (PhD, MHS, and certificate).
He has won numerous professional awards including a US Navy Commendation Medal, the US Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service, and a US Department of Defense Legion of Merit medal for epidemiological research; College of Public Health Faculty Teaching Award, Global Health Studies Program Faculty Member of the Year, College of Public Health Faculty Research Award, International Studies Faculty Mentor of the Year, and College of Public Health Distinguished Faculty Lecturer all at the University of Iowa; the Medal of Honor from Mongolia’s Minister of Health for health sector development (MoH’s highest award), and the Peace Medal awarded by the President of Mongolia for research and prevention of communicable diseases (The Mongolian government’s highest honor for a foreigner); and Duke University’s Global Health Graduate Professor of the Year.
His work in China has resulted in more than 30 research publications, designation as a high-end expert, and a visiting professorship. In 2014, he helped to organize the first One Health International Symposium in China (Guangzhou). His One Health Laboratory was the first laboratory on the DKU campus. He currently serves as principal investigator for a five-year U.S NIH/NIAID R01 grant studying swine influenza virus transmission in China.
Professor of the Practice in Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Duke Kunshan University
Moe was co-author and principal investigator on the research collaboration with Ridley and Grabowski summarized in “Developing Drugs for Developing Cou
In response to requests by the Development Research Center of the Chinese State Council, Moe has led international country comparator studies regarding drug procurement and the use of specialists in health care. Those research papers have been translated into Chinese and published by the China Development Press. His research interests include incentives to stimulate research and development of new medicines for global diseases; identification and replication of health care delivery innovation, global health ethics and “reverse innovation” where new products and services introduced in Southern low resource settings have application in the higher income West.
Moe received his Ph.D. in Organization Development and Behavior from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981. He graduated from the Kellogg School, Northwestern University, Executive Development Program in 1997. Moe has previously been a lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Jim Zhang is Professor of Global and Environmental Health at Duke University and Duke Kunshan University in China.
Professor, Duke and Duke Kunshan University; Head of Non-communicable Chronic Diseases (NCDs), Global Health Research Center
Lijing L.Yan, PhD, MPH, is currently a Professor at the Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University in the USA and the Head of Non-communicable Chronic Dis
Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University
Her research interest and experience centres on health equity in relation to health systems development (with a focus on health financing and health services
Mary D B T and James Semans International Professor of Medicine and Global Health at the Department of Population Health Science, Duke Medical School Professor, Duke Kunshan University Associate Director for China Initiatives, Duke Global Health Institute Executive Director of Global Health Programs, Duke Kunshan University
Dr. Shenglan Tang is Professor of Medicine and Global Health at Duke Global Health Institute.
Prof. Truls Østbye is Vice Chair of Research, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University.
Prof. Truls Østbye is Vice Chair of Research, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University.
In Singapore, his current research includes studies of: health and lifestyles of elderly Singaporeans, physical, mental and social facets of care giving for elderly Singaporeans, risk factors for threatened and complete miscarriages, and evaluation of workplace health promotion programs. His global health projects include several relating to health and illness among vulnerable worker populations in Sri Lanka, febrile illness in Sri Lanka. He currently is the PI of two R01 grants from the NIH and he has authored or coauthored over 400 peer reviewed papers in the medical and public health literature.
