杜克大学的研究人员探索了科学，技术，文化和环境如何影响个人的健康和福祉。从对青少年抑郁症和物质使用障碍的心理病理学的神经科学研究，对环境毒素的检查，对传统的犹太饮食法（kashrut），在个性化医学中使用移动技术以及现代环境主义和生物工程食品等问题进行研究，研究人员考虑人类整个生命周期中的健康行为，以找到改善生活质量和减少健康差异的方法。
Duke researchers explore ways in which science, technology, culture, and the environment affect individuals? health and well-being. From studies of the neuroscience of the psychopathologies of adolescent depression and substance use disorders, to examinations of environmental toxins, to traditional Jewish dietary laws (kashrut), to the use of mobile technologies in personalized medicine and modern issues of environmentalism and bioengineered food, researchers consider health behaviors over the human lifespan to find ways to improve quality of life and reduce health disparities.