Among the risks posed by a rapidly changing climate is the threat of fungal pathogens. Fungal infections currently cause 1.5 million deaths worldwide, and rising temperatures have the potential to make pathogenic fungi still more dangerous.

Duke Health’s Collaborative to Advance Clinical Health Equity (CACHE) is a community-driven initiative that leverages the power of data science to identify and eliminate health care disparities.

The OR Black Box system records virtually everything that happens from beginning to end during surgical procedures— all in the interest of making sure every patient at Duke has the safest and most positive possible outcome.

Duke Health is one of the nation’s leading transplant centers; we perform over 400 life-saving congenital heart surgeries annually, with shorter wait times and better survival rates for heart transplants than the national average. In recent years, Duke’s heart surgeons have pioneered a series of breakthrough heart transplant procedures, giving new life and new hope to children and adults who would otherwise have had no options.