Research

Department faculty members are internationally recognized experts in their areas of study. Our faculty pursue investigator-initiated studies on a broad range of individual and group health behavior and population studies.

Completed Projects Duluth Global Health Research Institute

Current Research

Current research explores the efficacy of innovative rural health care delivery models (e.g. telehealth, distance delivery consultative models), the neurobiological mechanisms of stress and their relation to heart disease, and several examples of novel community health research with Native American communities. Our evolving research emphasis focuses on health issues relevant to rural and Native American communities. Learn more about our current research projects.

American Indian & Rural Health Research

The University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus is nationally recognized as an emerging center of rural, American Indian and Indigenous health research. With one of the highest American Indian faculty ratios at any U.S. medical school, we are driven to develop interventions and research to meet the challenges of health disparities among people living far from the resources of urban population centers.