Nurse Carrie Mohagheghi trained co-workers on how to correctly wear personal protective equipment.

When artist Judith Snyderman, RN’64, Honorary Alumna’19, was in high school in Brooklyn, New York, her grandmother had a major stroke. One side of her body was disabled, and she was moved to a nursing home. Snyderman recalls vividly how caregivers transferred her grandmother from the bed to a wheelchair. “I remember her helplessness, and I wished I could help her,” she says.

Duke connections remain strong and community spirit shines through from the other side of the world. Donations of cash and surgical masks to Duke Health arrive quickly thanks to active network.

As teams throughout Duke’s hospitals, clinics, and research labs actively monitor and respond to the developing COVID-19 pandemic, Duke Health’s COVID-19 Response Fund to support the area of greatest need has received a generous gift from the Biogen Foundation.

Researchers and staff at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute and the Duke Regional Biocontainment Laboratory are working around the clock to develop therapies and a vaccine to combat COVID-19.

The Duke University School of Nursing's Health Innovation Lab is a collaborative space that brings together the professions of nursing, medicine, and engineering, to develop and test products for use in the patient care setting. This has become especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to challenge hospitals, the Duke Health System is benefitting from the generous support of companies, groups, businesses, and individuals who are providing donations of critically needed Personal Protective Equipment and meals for Duke’s many front-line healthcare providers.

Dr. Kristin Schroeder and her team in the Duke Global Health Institute have been working in Mwanza, Tanzania, to improve outcomes for children with cancer. They are finding that success is not always a matter of resources or equipment, but in finding creative ways to overcome the roadblocks that keep families from accessing cancer care.

Researchers at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute are leaders in research aimed at developing vaccines that teach the human immune system to respond to diseases like influenza, HIV, and cytomegalovirus (CMV) which impact hundreds of thousands of people globally. The Immune Resiliency Initiative, which is part of Duke’s larger Science and Technology endeavor, encompasses this work. Duke Human Vaccine Institute is part of the Duke University School of Medicine and Duke Health.

Haller, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, says the journey leading up to and after her adult daughter’s kidney transplant in 2017 was at times difficult—from being on dialysis to waiting for a donor, to learning to adjust to life after the transplant.