Join our Research Symposium
Join us on April 18 at Duke School of Medicine for our annual research symposium, Cultivating Change: Advancing Health Equity Beyond the Clinic. We invite students, scholars, and community partners to submit abstracts highlighting research and programs addressing social determinants of health, preventive medicine, and health equity. Abstracts are due by March 6, 2026 and you will be notified if your abstract is accepted for a poster presentation on March 23, 2026.
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our mission
Root Causes is an incubator for students interested in innovative social drivers of health interventions through service, advocacy, education and research. We organize around creating clinic-community partnerships to reduce barriers impacting access to healthy foods, housing, and environments, as well as providing support for voter registration and safe exercise participation.
Our goal is to build opportunities for students to tangibly interact with social drivers of health, and create an interdisciplinary network alliance to find solutions to pressing needs in our community.
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