Duke Community Affairs is pleased to announce that Mina Silberberg, P.hD., joins as faculty director for the new Duke Center for Community Engagement.
“There is a history of wonderful research and education collaborations between people at Duke and the Durham community, and there is more going on now than ever,” says Silberberg. “I am excited by the opportunity for the Center to amplify the impact of this work by promoting successes, supporting learning from challenges, and expanding interest and involvement in community-engaged scholarship.”
As faculty director for Duke’s new Center for Community Engagement, Dr. Silberberg will take on a vital strategic leadership role in advancing community-engaged scholarship and leveraging academic undertakings to benefit Duke purposeful partnerships and the communities they serve. Reporting jointly to the vice president for community affairs and the vice provost for interdisciplinary studies, the faculty director will facilitate greater coordination of engaged education and research across the university.
“A number of initiatives exist at Duke to promote community-engaged research and teaching in specific units and in specific ways,” she continues. “The Center will tackle initiatives that cross units and will work with the existing engagement-support initiatives to identify opportunities for synergy and advancement of the work. In doing so, we will be deeply informed by the knowledge and experience of the existing initiatives; I am grateful for what they bring to this work.”
“We are thrilled to have Mina’s deep knowledge and expertise in community engagement, specifically within the Duke and Durham contexts. I look forward to her leadership in advancing our mission to improve health and well-being in communities.”
– Stelfanie williams, vice president for community affairs
The faculty director will work closely with an associate vice president/associate vice provost for community-engaged scholarship, which is a new full-time staff leadership role that will oversee the daily management of the Center. The Center also includes five full-time staff dedicated to executing on its mission.
About Mina
Mina Silberberg, P.hD., is Faculty Director for the Duke Center for Community Engagement, Professor in the Duke Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, and Vice-Chief for Research and Evaluation in the Division of Community Health. She also has faculty appointments at the Division of Family Medicine, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, and Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences.
Silberberg has been conducting community-engaged program evaluation, research, and policy analysis using mixed methods for more than two decades. Her work has primarily focused on initiatives designed to address the health needs of low-income populations, and she has a particular interest in mobilization of multi-sectoral partnerships to address social drivers of health. She served as an editor and writer for the 2nd and 3rd editions of the CDC’s Principles of Community Engagement and is the editor of the book Engaging the Intersection of Housing and Health (University of Cincinnati Press, 2021). Her articles have been published in American Journal of Public Health, The Gerontologist, The Journal of Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved, Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law, and more.
Silberberg is an alumna of the Interdisciplinary Research Fellows Program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Prior to coming to Duke, she was a senior policy analyst at the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. Silberberg received her doctorate in political science from the University of California at Berkeley and completed postdoctoral training funded by NIA at the University of California at San Francisco .
About the Duke Center for Community Engagement
The Center for Community Engagement is a new center that will expand collaboration of Duke faculty, staff and students with community partners to accelerate collective progress on the most pressing challenges affecting communities. The Center builds on the foundations of Duke’s Office of Civic Engagement and will launch in early 2025. The faculty director will lead the implementation of key aspects of the Center related to community-engaged research and teaching.
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