The Duke Center for Community and Population Health Improvement views Durham County, NC as a model ecosystem through which we can demonstrate best practices for improving community and population health and expand practices regionally and nationally.  Our goals are to:

• Foster robust relationships and facilitate knowledge transfer among academic, community, and health system stakeholders
• Inform local, regional, and national health policies
• Identify targets for community and population health improvement at patient, family, community, and regional levels through clinical, social, geospatial, and other contextual analytic methods
• Rigorously study interventions to improve community and population health
• Develop novel analytic methods for community and population health research
• Train leaders to sustain and extend community and population health improvements

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