Research News

Cook Center Visiting Faculty member Dr. Mónica García-Pérez has co-authored a paper in Diabetology titled “Food as Medicine: FOODRx for Patients with Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in Central Minnesota—A PILOT STUDY”. Dr. García-Pérez’s paper explored the effects of FOODRx, a supplemental health food intervention program that gave disease-appropriate food boxes to food-insecure patients with diabetes…

The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University is thrilled to announce it has received a total of $3.4 million in grants from four institutions to support the second phase of its National Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color (NASCC) surveys and analysis. This research, taking place in five cities, will further…

Cook Center Founding Director William “Sandy” Darity, Jr., has been featured in the Winter 2024 issue of Dædalus titled Understanding Implicit Bias: Insights & Innovations. In this special issue, leading scholars, scientists, and policymakers examine the science behind implicit bias—the residue of stereotyped associations and social patterns that exists outside our conscious awareness but reinforces…

In the recent publication titled “How systemic racism and economic inequality contributed to COVID-19 disparities in America” in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), a distinguished team of researchers collaborates to address critical health disparities. These researchers include: Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Associate Director of Research at the Cook Center and Director of the Health Equity Working Group….

Faculty Affiliate Dr. Sarah E. Gaither, Nicholas J. and Theresa M. Leonardy Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, recently published two papers. “Parent and self-socialization of gender intergroup attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors among ethnically and geographically diverse young children,” which explores the roots of gender bias in children and adults, was published…

Cook Center Postdoctoral Associate Sungmee Kim has co-authored a report titled “Gender Differences in Remote Learning amid COVID-19 Pandemic” published through Georgia Policy Labs and the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. In this research, Dr. Sungmee Kim and her co-author Dr. Tim Sass found that there was considerable variation between the ability of girls…

When most people think of research, they often imagine scientists running around a lab filled with high-tech equipment, their white lab coats flapping behind them. But most scholarship happens behind a computer, as researchers analyze data, compose journal articles, connect with colleagues, apply for funding – and occasionally work on a book project. … Fenaba…

Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, recently saw her award-winning book Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America reissued by Penguin Random House. A previous New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction, the latest…

The Cook Center recently received a two-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support the Center’s research into how Black reparations will affect the wellbeing of children. The new project, in addition to comprehensively analyzing the causes of modern-day inequities that Black families with children face, will evaluate the effects of local reparations initiatives in…

Postdoctoral associate Pak Hung Lam recently co-authored a paper in JAMA Open Network, “Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Academic Performance Among Children in North Carolina.” Dr. Lam’s research, which analyzed a robust dataset of more than 2.8 million students in North Carolina from 2001-2018, highlights the negative effects of such environmental exposure on children’s academic…