1.011_HRW Duke Global Health Residency/Fellowship Pathway: Participants’ early career trajectories and academic output

Background: Since 2008 the Duke University Global Health Residency/Fellowship Pathway (GHRF) has trained 20 doctors from 6 departments and 11 diverse sub-specialties across the medical center to fulfill the program's mission to develop academic leaders in global health committed to reduce human suffering caused by health disparities.The Duke GHRF delivers tailored post-graduate training experiences that integrate specialty-specific research opportunities, master's level didactic training, and engaged mentorship.Methods: For each trainee who has completed the program, publications were identified by Web of Science and Scopus searches, then categorized by topic, journal impact factor at time of publication, citations, etc. Publications from the years during and after program enrollment were considered eligible for analysis.Descriptive statistics summarize the data.Early Career Trajectories and Academic Output: Of the 127 publications authored by GHRF graduates, 100 were eligible for analysis.Fifty-seven are first author publications; 66 were categorized as global health research.The median impact factor of each journal publishing GHRF scholars' work at the time of publication was 4.8*.American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Global Heart, and PLoS One were among the most frequently published journals (5+ articles).Cardiovascular diseases (37%), infectious diseases (28%), noncommunicable diseases (12%), and human resources for health (11%) are the most represented topics.Sixty-three publications could be found on Web of Science and these have been cited 546 times (median year of publication, 2012), yielding an average citation rate of 9 times per publication.Five graduates earned early career development awards, including two NIH K01 awards, one internal KL2 bridge award, and two awards from specialty societies.Sixty-five percent of GHRF graduates successfully competed for global health fellowships from the NIH's Fogarty International Center.Fifty percent of GHRF graduates hold academic appointments; five are at Duke.Other graduates are engaged in further subspecialty training, work at global health NGOs, or have joined the CDC/NIH.*2014 impact factor was used for articles published in 2015.

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