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Kevin Phillip Weinfurt

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Population Health Sciences
Population Health Sciences
Box 104023 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
215 Morris Street, Durham, NC 27705

Overview


Kevin P. Weinfurt, PhD, is Professor and Vice Chair of Faculty in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Duke University Medical Center and a faculty member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. He holds secondary appointment as a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Professor of  Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, and a Faculty Associate of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine. Dr. Weinfurt also co-directs the Center for Health Measurement at Duke and is co-director of the Clinical Research Training Program (Masters degree offered through the School of Medicine). Dr. Weinfurt worked as a Special Governmental Employee for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for four years, helping to create the Patient-Focused Drug Development guidance series. He is also a member of the Secretary's Advisory Committee for Human Research Protections. 


Dr. Weinfurt conducts research on measuring patient-reported outcomes, medical decision making, and bioethics. In addition to conducting research, Dr. Weinfurt has taught undergraduate courses in introductory psychology, judgment and decision making, and the psychology of medical decision making; and graduate courses in multivariate statistics, patient-reported outcomes, and research ethics.


Areas of Expertise: Bioethics, Health Measurement, Health Services Research, and Health Behavior

Current Appointments & Affiliations


James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Population Health Sciences · 2022 - Present Population Health Sciences, Basic Science Departments
Professor in Population Health Sciences · 2017 - Present Population Health Sciences, Basic Science Departments
Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience · 2011 - Present Psychology & Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences · 2021 - Present Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics · 2022 - Present Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Division of Biostatistics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Professor of Philosophy · 2024 - Present Philosophy, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Member in the Duke Clinical Research Institute · 1999 - Present Duke Clinical Research Institute, Institutes and Centers
Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society · 2017 - Present Duke Science & Society, University Initiatives & Academic Support Units

In the News


Published May 4, 2023
Duke Awards 44 Distinguished Professorships
Published April 16, 2015
Maintaining a Healthy Sex Life While Living with Cancer
Published July 2, 2013
Study finds people actually over-estimate how much they think about sex

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Recent Publications


Interpreting the meaningfulness of treatment effects estimated in parallel groups designs: comment on Trigg et al.

Journal Article Qual Life Res · July 2025 Draft guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration states that one can interpret a treatment effect on a clinical outcome assessment-based endpoint when expressed as some difference between group means. Recently, Trigg et al. examined different appr ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Argument-Based Approach to Validity Applied to Clinical Outcome Assessments: Some History and Notable Features.

Journal Article Value Health · April 11, 2025 Developing and evaluating clinical outcome assessments (COAs) requires a framework for understanding validity. The validity framework reflected in the most recent draft guidance from the US Food and Drug Administration is the argument-based approach. In th ... Full text Link to item Cite

Impact of Disclosing to Patients the Use of Antiretroviral Resistance Testing Results for Molecular HIV Surveillance: A Randomized Experiment in 2 National Surveys.

Journal Article JMIR Public Health Surveill · April 11, 2025 BACKGROUND: Molecular HIV surveillance (MHS) can be used to help identify and respond to emerging clusters of rapidly spreading HIV transmissions, a practice known as cluster detection and response (CDR). In the United States, MHS relies on HIV gene sequen ... Full text Link to item Cite
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Recent Grants


Nurse LEADS: Training in Nurse-LEd models of care ADdressing the Social Determinants of Health

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029

UrogynCREST Program

ResearchCourse Faculty · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 2019 - 2029

Duke KURe Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2013 - 2028

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Education, Training & Certifications


Georgetown University · 1997 Ph.D.