# Science Core

> **NIH NIH P2C** · DUKE UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $109,309

## Abstract

Science Core Abstract -- The Science Core (SC) is designed to provide scholars affiliated with the Duke
Population Research Center (DPRC) with high quality, flexible computing and technical services in a cost-
effective manner; including both data access and analytic tools. Over the past five years DPRC has (1)
invested in SC services that leverage the rich IT infrastructure at Duke to ensure provision and seamless
access to computational resources, new analysis tools, support for high-intensity network sampling and
simulation tools, (2) helped to identify appropriate technical support for complex population analysis, and (3)
provided training in new techniques, including those to analyze “big” data sources such as web-based data. In
the next five years, the SC will: (1) build on and maintain excellent computational resource provision for DPRC
scholars, and (2) develop accessible and reproducible tools, methods, and expertise for compiling, curating,
linking, and analyzing an ever growing volume of “big” administrative and healthcare data for population
research, an area in which DPRC scholars are already involved but still face significant challenges to use
them. To accomplish the latter goal, DPRC will bring together scholars at Duke in partnerships with local
government agencies and regional institutions to build the Durham Population Lab (DPL), an initiative that will
permit the examination of social and environmental features that contribute to divergent health trajectories in a
racially and ethnically diverse population. The DPL will function as a test “kitchen,” incorporating new data and
approaches, leveraging large population size for non-random sampling inference, and provide opportunities for
rapid assessment for evidence-based policy making, while advancing the NICDH Population Dynamics
Branch’s general interests in developing new tools and techniques for “big” population and health science.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10137282
- **Project number:** 5P2CHD065563-12
- **Recipient organization:** DUKE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Marcos de Almeida Rangel
- **Activity code:** P2C (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $109,309
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2010-08-01 → 2025-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10137282

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10137282, Science Core (5P2CHD065563-12). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10137282. Licensed CC0.

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