The Integrating Special Populations Core Advisory Council helps identify relevant resources and opportunities including registries and databases, clinical trial networks, research tools, educational offerings, and best practices to share with our local research community. This advisory council also provides guidance in identifying the needs of health disparities and special populations researchers and developing plans to address those gaps.
Additional members were selected for the CHDI-CTSI Child Health Equity Program to ensure specific stakeholder experience in child health equity. These members will provide input in the development of this pilot program RFA and will continue to guide the pilot program. All Advisory Council members are invited to participate in special interest initiatives, such as the CHDI-CTSI Child Health Equity Program.
External Council Members
Irene Doherty, PhD | idoherty@nccu.edu | Research Scientist, NCCU
Cheslie Johnson, BA | chesliej@gmail.com | Stakeholder Leadership Team Patient Representative
Rebby Kern | rebby@equalitync.org | Director of Education Policy, NC Equality
Kelley Massengale, PhD MPH | research@ncdiaperbank.org | Director of Research and Evaluation, NC Diaper Bank
Internal Council Members
Naomi Duke, MD PhD MPH | naomi.duke@edu | Duke Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Program Director for Duke NCSP, Duke School of Medicine; Associate Director for Duke PCLT, Duke School of Medicine
Dane Whicker, PhD | dane.whicker@duke.edu | Duke Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Duke CTSI Co-Director Equity in Research
Keisha Bentley-Edwards, PhD | Keisha.bentley.edwards@duke.edu | Duke Associate Professor of Internal Medicine; Associate Director of Research, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity; Duke CTSI Co-Director Equity in Research; Duke CTSI Co-Director Integrating Special Populations Core
Dwight Koeberl, MD, PhD | Dwight.koeberl@duke.edu | Duke Professor of Pediatrics; Duke Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology; Duke CTSI Co-Director Integrating Special Populations Core
Jillian Hurst, PhD | Jillian.hurst@duke.edu | Duke Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; CHDI Director; CHDI-CTSI Child Health Equity Program, Lead
K.K. Lam, PhD | Kk.lam@duke.edu | Clinical Trials Project Leader III; Program Director, Newborn Screening Evidence Review Group; Duke CTSI Director of Operations for Integrating Special Populations Core
Sydney Sullivan, MPH | Sydney.sullivan@duke.edu| ISP Research Program Manager
Eisha Baig, BS | eisha.baig@duke.edu | ISP Program Coordinator