Naomi Nichele Duke
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Current Research Interests
My research focuses on advancing knowledge and advocacy efforts around the relevance of childhood adversity and social context for later disparities in health outcomes, including morbidity and mortality related to stress physiology and its cumulative burden (allostatic load), perceptions of physical and emotional weathering, and health-related behaviors. My background in medicine, sociology, and public health uniquely positions me to inform health services delivery and research programming addressing interactions between sociocultural context and adolescent and young adult health, and the intergenerational transmission of health.
I have experience in working with large national and regional survey-based child and adult health datasets (e.g. National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent to Adult Health; National Health Interview Survey; National Survey of Children’s Health; Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System; Minnesota Student Survey). I am currently working to expand my experience in data construction, cultivation, and analysis using electronic health record, census-derived, and geospatial information to inform work addressing social drivers in maternal and child health and health behaviors. To this end, I am an academic affiliate with four multidisciplinary research collaborations: the Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research (DCCOR); the Duke Children’s Health & Discovery Initiative (Duke CHDI); the Duke Center for Health Outcomes and Innovation Research (Duke CHOIR); and the Duke University Population Research Institute (DUPRI). In each of these roles, I work collaboratively to study social contextual origins of health and to understand population-level factors that influence disparities in health and behavioral outcomes.
I am committed to the development of health interventions representing a diversity of perspectives and strengths at individual, community, and population levels to achieve equity in access and health outcomes for adolescents and young adults.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, Pediatrics 2021
- Associate Professor of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2022
Contact Information
- 4020 N. Roxboro Rd,, Durham, NC 27704
- 4020 N. Roxboro Rd,, Durham, NC 27704
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naomi.duke@duke.edu
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