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Emily R Smith

Emily R Smith

Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine

Overview

Emily Smith, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Duke University with research interests including children’s global surgery, poverty metrics, health economics, and global health policy. As an epidemiologist, she has worked with her in-country partners at the Edna Adan Hospital in Somaliland for the past 5 years on projects related to children’s surgical care, including defining the epidemiologic burden, assessing poverty trajectories among families with a child’s surgical need, geospatial analyses, and healthcare infrastructure. Prior to DGHI, her work at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) involved utilizing epidemiological methods, mathematical modeling techniques and cost-effectiveness research to determine effectiveness of various testing strategies among HIV exposed infants in sub-Saharan Africa.

Positions

Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine in the School of Medicine

2021 School of Medicine

Assistant Research Professor of Global Health in the University Institutes and Centers

2022 University Institutes and Centers

Member of the Duke Cancer Institute in the School of Medicine

2025 School of Medicine

Education

B.S., Wayland Baptist University 2003

2003 Wayland Baptist University

M.S.P.H., University of South Carolina, Columbia 2006

2006 University of South Carolina, Columbia

Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2016

2016 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Research Scholar, Duke University, School of Medicine, DUKE GLOBAL HEALTH INSTITUTE 2016 - 2017

2017 Duke University, School of Medicine

Publications, Grants & Awards

Offices & Contact

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