Duke’s Emergency Medicine Global Health section and program specializes in conducting healthcare quality improvement and public health-minded research specifically in low- and middle-income settings.

Led by Dr. Catherine Staton, the EM Global Health research program works mainly in Moshi, Tanzania at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center and with collaborators in Brazil, though we have partners in more than 15 countries around the world.

Research endeavors span from epidemiology and injury prevention to prehospital and hospital-based quality improvement to secondary prevention and disability assessment. Methodologically, we conduct multiple methods including basic epidemiology, geographic information systems, mixed methods approaches, dynamic system modeling and network analyses.