Success with global health initiatives often depends on bringing together individuals with different perspectives to deeply understand and effectively address a challenge. That’s the approach a group of faculty from Duke University, Duke Kunshan University and Duke-National University of Singapore took when they organized a conference focused on partnerships for digital health technology innovation at Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, China, on October 14.
With funds from the Duke Office of the Provost and Bass Connections, five faculty members from different disciplines across the three universities planned the conference and other related activities, including a research roundtable on October 13 on designing, evaluating and scaling up community-based cardio-metabolic prevention interventions. Access Health International and the City of Kunshan also provided funding for the events.
The goal for the weekend of events was to integrate perspectives from academia, industry, and government on the promise of digital health technology and to stimulate new research partnerships, community engagement, and student involvement.
More than 250 participantsincluding Kunshan Deputy Mayor Jin and Duke Kunshan University Vice Chancellor Gao attended the conference. A number of Duke and Duke Kunshan students from a range of academic disciplines also participated.
