DKU professor co-authors Lancet commentary calling for WHO reform
Shenglan Tang, co-director of the Global Health Research Center at Duke Kunshan University, has co-authored a new commentary in the Lancet with Michael Merson calling for more far-reaching reform of the World Health Organization. The commentary, “Transforming WHO: incremental reform is no longer sufficient,” was published April 10.
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DKU and GHII Co-host the International Forum on Co-creating the Future of Global Health with China MedTech
April 9, 2026 – The “Co-Creating the Future of Global Health with China MedTech” International Forum was held at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai). Organized by the Shanghai Global Health Innovation Institute and Duke Kunshan University, the event convened leaders from academia, industry, and research to explore how medical device innovation can advance global health.
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Class of 2025 Successfully Completes Thesis Defenses
DKU Global Health Program is proud to announce that 20 master candidates from the Class of 2025 have successfully defended their theses, marking the culmination of their two-year program.
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Seven Students, Four Projects, selected for the DKU Innovation Challenge!
Duke Kunshan University recently launched the 5th Duke Kunshan University Innovation Challenge (“DaChuang”), centered around the theme of “Innovation · Connection.” The competition spurred a new generation of creators to look beyond what they build and consider how innovative thinking can open doors to wider impact.
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“CREATInG Initiative” Concludes Regulatory Functional Training, Paving the Way for Global IVD Market Access
The inaugural “Regulatory Functional Training,” a core module of the “CREATInG Initiative” (China Regulatory Excellence and Training for In-vitro Diagnostics Global Initiative), successfully concluded at Duke Kunshan University from November 10th to 12th. This marks the third major activity under the initiative, following an international roundtable and an executive workshop.
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DKU Innovation Lab for Vaccine Delivery Research Plays Key Role in Bringing HPV Vaccine into China’s Immunization Schedule
With this policy now formally in place, age-eligible girls will benefit from free vaccination. This marks the first expansion of China’s NIP since 2008.
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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The vision of the Global Health Program at Duke Kunshan University is to
promote health equity and improve health for all in China and worldwide.

Global Health Research Center​

The Global Health Research Center was established in 2013 and co-founded by Duke Kunshan University and the Duke Global Health Institute. Through conducting high-quality research, the Center aims to provide policy recommendations, and explore innovative solutions to national and global health challenges.
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Master of Science in Global Health​

The MSc-GH program has been an academic pioneer at DKU since 2014. With a rich history and a diverse student body, our program stands out for its high-quality curriculum and varied extracurricular activities, fostering an excellent learning environment to propel students toward their career goals.
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Dr. Shenglan Tang

Co-Director, the Global Health Program, Duke Kunshan University

Dr. Fujie Xu

Co-Director, the Global Health
Program, Duke Kunshan University

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OUR EDUCATION

Train the next generation of global health leaders through three educational programs
— undergraduate, graduate, and professional

Duke Kunshan University Welcomes the Class of 2026 to the Master of Science in Global Health Program
In August 2024, Duke Kunshan University (DKU) Master of Science in Global Health Program (MSc-GH Program) launched its orientation week to warmly welcome the incoming Class of 2026. This cohort of 20 students, hailing from diverse academic backgrounds such as anthropology, information technology, biosciences, business management, and more, embarked on their academic journey at DKU.
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Global Health Leadership Capacity Building Workshop
The "2024 China Global Health Leadership Capacity Building Training Program" was successfully held from June 16 to 26, 2024, in Kunshan and Beijing. The 2024 program, supported by the Health Human Resources Development Center at the National Health Commission of China and sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was co-organized by the Global Health Research Center at Duke Kunshan University and the Institute of Asian Studies at China Foreign Affairs University.
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Students Field Experiences
Immersive learning defines DKU’s approach to global health education. Following the foundational academic coursework in the first year, MSc-GH students embark on a mentor-guided, 10-week field study during the summer. These research projects allow students to connect classroom lessons in a practical context, while also engaging them in underserved communities experiencing health disparities. Since 2014, students have conducted field projects in over 20 countries across six continents.
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Alumni

Joining a Top Consulting Firm: Tips are not too focused on Tips

Fieldwork

He Ye: The Power of Collective Efforts

Fieldwork

Tarra Tjandra: There is More Than One Path to Change the World

OUR RESEARCH

Conduct high-quality innovative research in the three priority research domains
— health system and policy, population health and wellbeing, and health security and environment

In 2024,

10,094,728

external funding received (amount in CNY)

97

Research papers

61%

as first or correspondent authors

Top 1%

ranked among the Essential Science Indicators Global Top 1% in Clinical Medicine for seven consecutive years

RESEARCH NEWS

Two Leading Voices of Clinical and Preventive Medicine Championed Medical Innovation and Integrating ‘Health’ into All Policies

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RESEARCH NEWS

Study maps aging and health research gaps across East and Southeast Asia

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RESEARCH NEWS

Trust, Implementation, and Co-creation: Co-designing Diagnostic Technologies with Communities

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COLLABORATION AND TRANSFORMATION

Foster cross-border and intercultural understanding, communications, and collaborations
in health research, education, knowledge translation, and policy transformation

In 2024,

7 

Policy Briefs including 2 student-led WHO policy briefs

70+

Media Reports for policy advocacy

24

Global Health Symposiums and Workshops hosted

57

Conference Presentations and Invited Talks
10 with students engaged

As of 2023, the program has established cooperation and contacts with more than fifty academic and research institutes, United Nations agencies, international and nongovernmental organizations, and health-related industries in more than thirty countries across Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe, North America, and South America. Partnerships with Duke Global Health Institute, SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute and Wuhan University offer opportunities for exchange of students and faculty. The Global Health Program at DKU also hosted nine research fellows from America, Bangladesh, Peru, Rusia, Hong Kong and other Chinese universities.
Hanoi, Vietnam – Building on the success of their first retreat at Duke Kunshan University in October 2023, leaders from Duke’s tripartite global health institutes recently gathered in Hanoi for their second collaborative retreat.
On August 9, 2024, a breakthrough study led by Professor Lijing Yan from the Global Health Research Center at Duke Kunshan University, in collaboration with the Chronic Disease Center at the Chinese CDC, was published in The Lancet Regional Health—Western Pacific. The study, titled “Effect of the National Integrated Demonstration Area for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases Programme on Behavioural Risk Factors in China: A Synthetic Difference-In-Differences Study,” represents the first national-level assessment of the effect of implementations in the demonstration areas on residents’ health behaviors.
为了助力中国体外诊断（IVD）企业的产品与服务更顺畅地进入中低收入国家（LMIC）市场，加速市场准入进程，昆山杜克大学与杜克-新加坡国立大学医学院的联合研究团队于2024年4月发起了名为“创领体外诊断出海”的深度调研项目。该项目核心在于系统性地探究中国IVD制造商在开拓国际市场，尤其是在服务中低收入国家健康需求过程中所面临的机遇与挑战。
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