Partners

Deploying Technologies in Breast and Cervical Cancer Care

GWHT collaborates with clinicians, researchers, and global health organizations to deploy technologies across its core clinical programs in cervical and breast cancer. These partnerships span community clinics, hospitals, and global health systems, enabling technologies to be implemented in diverse healthcare environments.

These collaborations support the evaluation of innovations in real clinical settings and enable the expansion of access to screening, detection, and treatment technologies.

Community partnerships play a critical role in screening programs and implementation initiatives, particularly in cervical cancer prevention and breast cancer care, helping to address disparities in access and outcomes.

These collaborations ensure that technologies are grounded in real patient needs, clinical workflows, and the operational realities of healthcare delivery.
Through these partnerships, GWHT ensures that technologies developed through research are tested, adapted, and integrated into healthcare systems—translating innovation into meaningful improvements in patient outcomes.

Partnerships also provide critical training environments for students and fellows. Through programs such as DukeEngage, Ignite, and the Translational Fellows Program, participants engage directly with community and clinical partners, building the skills needed to translate engineering solutions into real-world healthcare impact.

Partnerships in Clinical Impact and Deployment

Deploying Technologies in Breast and Cervical Cancer Care

Breast Cancer Research

GWHT partnerships in breast cancer research allow for our lab to advance our research in alignment with top oncologists and experts in the field while implementing clinical trials for effective deployment in healthcare and educational systems.

Andrei Goga, MD, PhD

University of California, San Francisco

Eun Lee Langman, MD

Duke University School of Medicine

Smita Nair, PhD

Duke University School of Medicine

Greg Palmer, PhD

Duke University School of Medicine

Jennifer Rosenbluth, MD, PhD

University of California San Francisco

Michael Rubinstein, PhD

Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University

Alexandra Thomas, MD

Duke University School of Medicine

Lee Wilke, MD

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Cervical Cancer Research

GWHT partnerships in cervical cancer research engage in algorithm development for our cervical screening app and for deployment of the Pocket Colposcope and Callascope worldwide in countries like Kenya and Peru. We are also working to expand care for underrepresented communities through our work with Radical Healing in Durham.

Elizabeth Bukusi, PhD, MPH

University of Washington, Kenya Medical Reserach Institute

Patricia J. Garcia, MD

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Project HOPE

Megan Huchko, MD, MPH

Duke University School of Medicine

Francesca Odhiambo, MBChB, MMED

Kenya Medical Research Institute

Qiang Qiu, PhD

Purdue University

Hayley Cunningham, MD

Radical Healing

Partnerships in Early Engagement

Duke Ignite partners with informal education and program evaluation experts David Knudsen and the education team at the Museum of Life and Science.

Undergraduate students work with GWHT and the Museum of Life and Science through the Bass Connections Course "Ignite: Evaluating Impact of STEM Design and Mentorship in Durham."

Professor Jesko von Windheim (Nicholas School for the Environment) and Christina Silcox (Margolis Institute for Health Policy) partners with GWHT for the Bass Connections Project "Disruptive Innovation and Policy in Healthcare."

With Duke Engage, GWHT offers two summer programs for undergrads to address social issues through a real-world experience.

The longest-running Duke Engage program for GWHT is a partnership with Girls Inc of Orange County to create and implement hands-on STEM summer programming for girls in the Eureka! Summer Program, led by Executive Director Marlee Krieger. This will be offered to Duke undergrads in Summer 2027.

For Summer 2026, Assistant Director Megan Madonna is serving as Interim Director for "Designing Engineering Solutions for Low-Income Healthcare Delivery", addressing healthcare challenges in Uganda in partnership with Makerere Univeristy.